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"Every speedometer up to now has depended upon the same principle as a Watt's governor; that is, there are two little balls attached to each by a limb to a central shaft: they rise and fall according to their speed of rotation, and this movement is indicated upon a dial." I nodded. He cleared his throat again. "Of course, that is unsatisfactory."
This done, the highwayman showed me how I must gag them and when this had been done to his satisfaction, he nodded: "And now," quoth the highwayman, his battered features twisted in a wry smile as they sat thus gagged and helpless, "hearken all.
"I want to talk to you where we won't be interrupted," he requested. "Talk on," said Bob, seating himself on a log. "The open is as good a place as another; you can see your eavesdroppers there." Oldham considered this a moment, then nodded his head, and took his place by the young man's side. "It's about those Modoc lands," said he. "I suppose so," said Bob. "Mr.
"We got two other rooms," he told her, "one that Ella an' Lily sleep in, an' one that Jim pays fer, his own self. Ma an' Pa an' me we sleep here! Say, don't you be too scared o' Pa he'll stay asleep fer a long time, now. He won't wake up unless he's shook. Will he, Ma?" Mrs. Volsky nodded her head with a worn out, apathetic movement.
The archers nodded, and took their post, each at a separate quarter; and deadly indeed seemed the danger of the Earl, for as he moved, though he kept his back guarded by the tree, some parts of his form the shield left exposed, and it would have been impossible, in his quick-shifting movements, for the archers so to aim as to wound, but to spare life; yet the Earl seemed to take no peculiar care to avoid the peril; lifting his bare head fearlessly above the shield, and including in one gaze of his steadfast eye, calmly bright even at the distance, all the shafts of the archers.
"Professor Fish?" accosted Mary primly, at his elbow. He turned upon her with a movement like a swoop. "I am Mary Pond," she explained. "My father was called away to a case, so he sent me to meet you and bring you up to the house. I have a fly waiting." "Ah!" The Professor nodded and was bland. "Very good of you to take the trouble, Miss Pond. I am much obliged."
I went to a technical night school for years, you know, and I couldn't get enough of the machine shop. One of the teachers in the school got this job for me here. I'd never been outside of New York before and I thought this was Heaven, honest." "Mr. Norris said you claimed it would oh, something about efficiency," Robin floundered. Dale nodded. "I not only claim, I know.
"You'll have to say a few words," Dale insisted. "They'll never leave off until you do." Maraton nodded and turned towards the audience. He stood looking down at them for a moment or two, without speech. Even after silence had been established he seemed to be at a loss as to exactly what to say. When at last he did speak, it was in an easy and conversational manner.
Harwood nodded; but Bassett had not finished; it clearly was not his purpose to stand the young man in a corner and demand a choice from him. Bassett pursued negotiations after a fashion of his own. "Thatcher thinks he has scored heavily on me by sneaking into Fraserville and kidnaping old Ike Pettit.
Conisbee's she starved herself to have money to buy spirits; she went without any food but dry bread day after day. 'Of course that made it worse. She must have craved for support. 'Of course. And your husband knows about it. He came once when she was in that state when you were away Monica nodded sullenly, her eyes averted. 'Her life has been so dreadfully unhealthy.
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