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Was it possible that the colonel and his daughter were dining in their rooms? Perish the possibility! And he looked in vain for the count. A quarter-past nine. Mr. Robert's anxiety was becoming almost unendurable. Nine-thirty. He was about to surrender in despair. His partridge lay smoking on his plate, and he was on the point of demolishing it, when, behold! they came.
She did not want by a refusal to put into words a hostility tha e had always carefully veiled. She was in the position of not wanting to go at all, yet wanting still less to decline to do so. "I shall be glad to go," she said. "Fine. We'll start about nine, or nine-thirty say. I'll drive up in a surrey." "And we'll have lunch for the party put up at the hotel here.
Coming back, I picked up my forgotten watch from the floor. It was still going, and the hands marked nine-thirty. "Now," Sperry said in a soothing tone, "you said there was a shot fired and a man was killed. Where was this? What house?" "Two shots. One is in the ceiling of the dressing-room." "And the other killed him?" But here, instead of a reply we got the words, "library paste."
His companions became frightened and reported it about eight o'clock. They saw nothing, but mark this! Four of them agree that they heard a sound in the air like a motor humming." "That proves nothing." "Taken alone it does not, but in view of the third case, it is quite significant. The third case happened about nine-thirty last night. This time the victim was a girl, aged ten.
In other words, Macgregor may have been conscientiously afraid, but he had no disposition to run away. About nine-thirty they came out. While he looked a little dazed and defiant, she appeared entirely happy and self-possessed, with her hand in his arm as though he had belonged to her for quite a long time. But at the gorgeous portals she stopped short with a cry of dismay. It was raining heavily.
He could hardly appear before nine o'clock, or even nine-thirty; and perhaps he might not come at all. Cally had felt unable to agree with her mother's theory that she was required to sit awaiting Hugo's convenience there.
We returned for a nine-thirty breakfast, and left afterwards for a sight-seeing expedition, having been warned not to expect much in this line at Calcutta. St. Paul's Cathedral English was interesting on account of the many memorials and statues, one of Bishop Heber having much merit.
And so when on arriving at the office the next morning, which was a Friday, he received a telegram reading, "Arriving to-morrow nine-thirty from Greenwich; the day cannot begin too soon; don't forget you promised to meet me. Anita Flagg " he was able to reply: "Extremely sorry; but promise made to a different person, who unfortunately has since died!"
Her teeth came together upon her eclair and the filling escaped its bounds, landing in many places that it should not have landed. When Miss Stetson had removed about a tablespoonful of cream filling from her bosom, she said icily: "Miss Ashby, you are to report at Miss Woodhull's study at once," and utterly ignored Beverly's apologies. "Report at Miss Woodhull's office at nine-thirty at night?"
An hour after I had read the report in the paper, Duperré rang me up. "I'm going to Overstow by the nine-thirty from King's Cross to-night," he said. "If you can join me, do. The air is better in Yorkshire than in London, don't you think so, old chap?" "Right-oh!" I replied. "I'll travel up with you." We met, and early next morning we were back at Overstow.
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