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Then I paused and looked round the boat. "Is Mr. Gow back?" I inquired. Tommy shook his head. "Not yet. I expect he's blueing some of that fiver in anticipation." "Come and sit down, then," I said, "and I'll tell you all about it." They both seated themselves beside me on the edge of the well, and in as few words as possible I let them have the full story of my adventures.
I'm afraid that's part of the price you've got to pay for my hospitality." She paused, eyeing Lanyard inquisitively while he restored his belongings to his pockets. "Now, get that chair!" she ordered; and waited, standing, until she had been obeyed. "That's it there! Sit down."
Galland paused while they exchanged the greetings of old friends. "Your Excellency, may we send back for you, sir?" called the doctor. He was not one to let rank awe him when duty pressed. "This hand ought to be at the hospital at once." "I'm coming along. I've a train to catch," replied His Excellency, springing into the car.
He paused and Thirlwell made a sign of sympathy. "A nerve-shaking jar! But what became of the dogs?" "I think they were afraid of the ice. If my camp had been made and a fire lighted, they might have come in for warmth, but I was not their master, and perhaps they took the back trail to the spot we started from.
Ah! what should we speak of in Mademoiselle's presence?" "But are not these papers valuable?" asked Rosey, partly to draw her host's thoughts back to their former channel. "Perhaps." He paused and regarded the young girl fixedly. "Does Mademoiselle think so?" "I don't know," said Rosey. "How should I?"
'No; never toward the later part of his life' and her clear eyes clouded a little, 'nothing made him so sad as the thought of Oxford. She paused, as though she had strayed on to a topic where expression was a little difficult. Then his big face and clerical dress seemed somehow to reassure her, and she began again, though reluctantly. 'He used to say that it was all so changed.
Out of this copse, chewing greedily at an uprooted bunch of canna-bulbs, slouched Romaine's wandering sow. At, sight of the Mistress, she paused in her leisurely progress and, with the bunch of bulbs still hanging from one corner of her shark-mouth, stood blinking truculently at the astonished woman. Now, Lad had not obeyed the Mistress's soft chirp.
"A glass," he said, hoarsely, and then paused, and repeated it more clearly. "A glass? For Christmas? Surely not?" "And why not?" cried the dealer. "Why not a glass?" Markheim was looking upon him with an indefinable expression. "You ask me why not?" he said. "Why, look here look in it look at yourself! Do you like to see it? No! nor I nor any man."
The priest paused a moment, looked at Finden with a curious reflective look, and then said, "And so you t'ink there is no one; that she will say yes not at all no?"
But I never paused. I came on, and on, and on, only eating bread now and then. When I got to Brussels I saw that I should not have enough money, and I sold all that I could sell; but here a strange thing happened. Putting my hand into the pocket of my cloak, I found a half-napoleon.
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