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He laughed nervously. 'Oh, the meaning's clear enough. It speaks for itself. 'I don't understand, said I. 'I'm pianist to the Brasserie des Quatre Vents. You saw me in the discharge of my duties. 'I don't understand, I repeated helplessly. 'And yet the inference is plain. What could have brought a man to such a pass save drink or evil courses? 'Oh, don't trifle, I implored him.
Two decks below, about amidships, a cargo port was thrust open to the night. A thick, broad beam of light leaped out, buffeting the murk, striking evanescent glimmers from the rocking facets of the waters. Deckhands busied themselves rigging out an accommodation ladder. A tender of little tonnage panted nervously up out of nowhere and was made fast alongside.
I was standing at the window, my back to the room and my hands twisting nervously with each other behind me. "No, it is not dangerous," said Sarakoff. He sat on the edge of the writing-table, swinging his legs and staring meditatively at the floor. "It is not dangerous, is it, Harden?" I replied only with a jerky, impatient movement.
He laughed nervously as he drew out his card-case. The stranger watched him in silence. There was the same faint contempt, but also there was a reluctant interest in his glance, as it passed from the fingers fumbling with the case to the pale face with the square jaw, straight mouth, and level eyebrows drawn low over the gray eyes.
Don't ever let him near you. He's crazy an' he means evil." "Oh, I know, Lin! I'll watch. But I'm not afraid of him." "He's strong, Lucy. I saw him lift bags that were hefty for me.... Lucy, do you ride these days?" "Every day. If I couldn't ride I couldn't live." "I'm afraid," said Slone, nervously. "There's Creech an' Cordts both have threatened you."
Suddenly rapid firing was heard in the direction of the barrio, and every soldier seized his gun and ran into the company streets, but the corporal, calm and undisturbed, dismissed them. Nervously the men wandered about; the two wounded men became the center of attraction and related for the hundredth time their sensations when the juramentado had struck them down.
Clarence bowed his head, and his lips framed, but he did not utter, 'Thank you. Emily nervously began reading aloud the page before her, full of the jingling recurring rhymes about Sir Thomas of Kent; but I saw Ellen surreptitiously wipe away a tear, and from that time she was more kind and friendly with Clarence. 'None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair.
'I never got any further, he said, stopping short in the middle of the second part; 'I somehow lost the character of the thing; but I like the opening. 'Oh, so do I. I wonder how you can think of such tunes. How clever you must be! Montgomery smiled nervously, and he proposed that they should go over to the hotel to have a drink.
Campbell scrawled a few lines, blotted them, and addressed an envelope to his assistant. Dorian took the note up and read it carefully. Then he rang the bell and gave it to his valet, with orders to return as soon as possible and to bring the things with him. As the hall door shut, Campbell started nervously, and having got up from the chair, went over to the chimney-piece.
"At any rate, you are still comfortable in your own house," said Angela, nervously, anxious to change the subject, and not knowing what to say. "Oh! yes, I have money enough, if that is what you mean.
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