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The girl turned away from the partition, her face white and drawn, her eyes inexpressibly sad. She rose to her feet, facing Theriere. "I have heard quite enough, thank you, Mr. Theriere," she said. "You are convinced then that I am your friend?" he asked. "I am convinced that Mr. Divine is not," she replied non-committally. She took a step toward the door. Theriere stood looking at her.
"Poor Emily Fox-Seton," said the marquis, non-committally. They went, but they did not stay long. The treat was taking form. Emily Fox-Seton was hot and deeply engaged. People were coming to her for orders. She had a thousand things to do and to superintend the doing of.
This is but another example of what fools American parents can be when they get bees in their bonnets." She seemed to be accusing me! "I hope she gets away safely with the kiddie," said I, non-committally. "Heaven knows where she is. Maybe she's as safe as a bug in a rug." "I shouldn't be surprised," said I. The Billy Smiths and George Hazzard came up at this juncture.
But she don't look like one that would take to it naturally. Such a pretty girl as that generally thinks she does enough when she looks her prettiest." "She's a pretty girl," said Corey, non-committally. "But I suppose a great many pretty girls have to earn their living." "Don't any of 'em like to do it," returned the book-keeper. "They think it's a hardship, and I don't blame 'em.
"It will be due in New York early to-morrow morning twenty million dollars in gold and thirty millions in securities a seven-car steel train, with forty armed guards!" "I know it," she said, anxiously, "and I am so afraid something is going to happen ever since I had to play the spy. But what could any one want with a yacht?" Kennedy shrugged his shoulders non-committally.
"And did you think," demanded Lapham, firing up, "that I would turn them in on somebody else as you turned them in on me, when the chances are that they won't be worth ten cents on the dollar six months from now?" "I didn't know what you would do," said Rogers non-committally.
"You had luck," said Talbot non-committally, "and you ran a strong risk of coming back here without a cent, didn't you? I want to ask you one question, Johnny. If you had lost, would you have been willing to have taken the consequences?" "What do you mean?" asked Johnny blankly. "Would you have been willing to have dropped out of this partnership?" Johnny stared.
I told him I was full as satisfied as I would be to have to make my way through Indians and buffaloes to get anywhere as you have to in those wild Western cities. He claimed that it was perfectly civilized around Chicago now; but of course he'd say that." "H'm," returned Mrs. Whipp, non-committally.
There was a little pause rather an awkward one and then Grace said: "Well, girls, we had better be getting on. It's late." "Yes, and I must see about supper," said Mrs. Jallow. "I wish you'd come over." She did not heed the eye-telegraphic signals her daughter was flashing at her. But the other girls understood. "Thank you," said Grace again, non-committally. "Well good-bye!" said Mrs.
"The admiral has seen some odd corners. Think of seeing, at close range, the Japanese-Chinese naval fight!" "He tells a story well." "And the daughter is a thoroughbred." "Yes," non-committally. "By the way, I'm going to the Pole in June or August." "The Italian expedition?" "Yes." "That ought to make fine copy. You will not mind if I turn in? A bit sleepy." "Not at all.
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