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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Aye, aye, sir!" reported the man with the Red Cross on his sleeve, reappearing before the door. "Have the stretcher brought here at once!" "Aye, aye, sir!" Still holding the clinical thermometer in one hand, Doctor McCrea stood keenly regarding the prisoner. "What on earth is the matter with me?" demanded Truax, speaking somewhat nervously.
Opposite him was a young, mild-eyed missionary, too new in the land to have lost his illusions or have blunted the keen edge of his enthusiasms; a colourless person with a finical way of handling his knife and fork, who darted continually shy, sidelong glances at Sophia, or interpolated eager, undigested comments, nervously into the conversation.
"With all sorts of good luck," he said, and placed it in her hands. "How dear of you! And may I look now?" "I wish you would. Because, if you would rather have something else " She opened the box with excited fingers. Ticking away on its satin bed was a small gold watch. "You'll need it, you see," he explained nervously, "It wasn't extravagant under the circumstances.
She had an impression that the Captain, beside her, if more and more friendly, was by no means unembarrassed; in a minute, however, when her eyes were clearer, he was erect in front of her, very red and nervously looking about him and whacking his leg with his stick. "Say you love her, Mr. Captain; say it, say it!" she implored. Mr. Captain's blue eyes fixed themselves very hard.
I know what I'm doing." "You will cause these cowboys to lose a lot more money." "Not at all. When Culver arrives " "Oh, that is what I want to talk over with you," Mrs. Keap broke in, nervously. "Then it isn't about the foot-race? You are not angry?" Speed brightened amazingly. "I'm not exactly angry; I'm surprised and grieved.
He held out to me another bean. It was too dark to see the quality of it, but I thought it was very small. However, I bought it. One of these fellows must be treated as well as the other. Maiden's Heart and the sentry were now feeling nervously in their pockets.
"What is THAT?" he demanded as he pointed toward the unexpected object before him. Neither Zoie, Aggie, nor Jimmy could command words to assist Alfred's rapidly waning powers of comprehension, and it was not until he had swept each face for the third time with a look of inquiry that Zoie found breath to stammer nervously, "Why why why, that's the OTHER one."
Jim immediately lighted a fresh cigarette, and began to rattle away somewhat nervously of his plans for the day. He was going over to the Oakland Hospital to look at his man with the spine better not try to meet for lunch. But how about that Pacific Avenue house? If Julia took the motor and stopped at the agent's for the key, he would meet her there at four how about it? Agreed. Gosh!
"Baldpate Inn," Bentley had cried in his idiom. "Why, Billy Baldpate Inn at Christmas it must be old John H. Seclusion himself." Yes, here he was. And here was the solitude he had come to find. Mr. Magee looked nervously about, and the smile died out of his gray eyes. For the first time misgivings smote him. Might one not have too much of a good thing?
But, as before, he stepped away, this time more abruptly. He began to circle around her, prancing nervously, pausing to paw the ground, prancing again nervously. She held firm grip on his bridle, however, and sharply rebuked him. "Pat," she exclaimed, "this is a new trait!"
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