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For a space Bernard lay and watched him. Then at last, somewhat ponderously he arose. Everard could not have heard his approach, but he was aware of it before he reached him. He turned swiftly round, pulling the window closed behind him. They stood facing each other, and there was something tense in the atmosphere, something that was oddly suggestive of mental conflict.
But I hoped that there was time still that it was not so very late! At length he was failing. I heard ten o'clock strike. He came up and lumbered on the surface of the pool. Gradually I drew him, plunging ponderously, to the gravelled beach, where I meant to 'tail' him. He yielded to the strain, he was in the shallows, the line was shortened. I stooped to seize him.
And Captain Barker explained his scheme a second time. "No use," pronounced Mr. Swiggs at the close, shaking his head ponderously. "Why not?" Mr. Swiggs swept his hand before him, summing up the whole landscape with one majestic semicircle. "Where is your soil?" he asked. "And where is your water? Springs?" he paused a couple of seconds "There ain't none. All that mortal man can do, I does."
Had she heard either, she would have felt that all was right; but neither sound was there for her to hear. She heard only her father's slow step, as he ponderously let himself down from the carriage, and slowly walked along the hall, till he got into his own private room on the ground floor. 'Send Miss Stanhope to me, he said to the servant.
After that he went slowly back to the stables, and sat in the harness-room a long time, staring at the floor, as the bell struck ponderously on his ear. The woman who had opened the gate for her Betty saw had red eyes. She knew why. "A year ago they all thought of him as an outcast. They would have believed any evil they had heard connected with his name.
He watched them for a moment before turning his attention to the heavy-lidded, flabby-jowled person who leaned ponderously against the sober side of the bar. "Who owns this joint?" he asked truculently, as he eyed with disfavour the filthy shirt-sleeves rolled back from thick forearms, the sagging vest, and the collarless shirt-band that buried itself in a fold of the fat neck.
"Indeed," observed the Earl, seating himself ponderously, "if you refer to a certain inclination at that period of the year toward the likeliest wench in the neighborhood, so do I. 'Tis an obvious provision of nature, I take it, to secure the perpetuation of the species. Spring comes, and she sets us all a-mating humanity, partridges, poultry, pigs, every blessed one of us she sets a-mating.
This was the crazy watchmaker; he was standing on his high steps, crying damnation on the world at large. Pelle knew perfectly well that the man was crazy, and in the words which he so ponderously hurled at the town there was not the slightest meaning. But they sounded wonderfully fine notwithstanding, and the "ordeal by wax" was hanging over him like a sort of last judgment.
Stevens ponderously from his place on the porch. "Up on my dresser you will find a box of candy which Mr. Turner was kind enough to have sent me, and he confesses that he has never tasted maraschino chocolates. Won't you please run up and get them and let Mr. Turner sample them?" "Huh!" grunted Mr. Stevens.
It turned, passed through a big doorway in the side, and we could hear the coal rattling into the wagon. The Crano-Scale returned and swung ponderously in the twilight. "There!" cried Hawkins triumphantly. "It works!" I gasped. "You bet it works!" "But it must cost something to run the thing," I suggested.
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