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No, you can rest easy about it, Mr. Whitaker never let the canes go out of his house without knowing who had come for them. No, sir. Not much." Somewhat comforted by Will's positiveness, the boys began to retrace their way down the long road, and after a moment Hawley said, "We'll find out all about it anyway, for Mr. Whitaker will tell us. He's all on our side.
Brown, beginning his sentence with an asperity and positiveness that somehow did not hold out to its end. "She did say to me, I confess, how fond she was of dancing, and how she had refrained from saying much about it to you" Mr. Port here interpolated a sceptical snort "because she knew that taking her to the Casino would only bore you.
He suggests that the mules shall be clad in submarine armor and made to walk under water along the bottom of the canal, being fed with air through a pump. As we have never seen a mule in action while decorated with submarine armor, we are unable to say with positiveness what his conduct would be under such circumstances. But the objections to the plan are of a formidable character.
"She beckoned the boy of the swan dive nearer to her, and signed to him to dive over again. He shook his head, and along with all his crew behind him laughed as if it were a good joke. "'Shark, he volunteered, pointing to the water. "'No, she said. 'There is no shark. "But he nodded his head positively, and the boys behind him nodded with equal positiveness. "'No, no, no, she cried.
It would have been easy now, for instance, to assume that this prim spinster was mistaken in declaring that she had seen the pistol thrown from the window of Number Seven. That, of course, seemed most unlikely, since the shooting was done in Number Six, yet how account for the woman's positiveness?
"No theories, Miss Butterworth; it is facts we are after. Now, do you know that he was older?" "No, sir." "Did you get any idea as to his age?" "The impression he made was that of being a young man." "And his height?" "Was medium, and his figure slight and elegant. He moved as a gentleman moves; of this I can speak with great positiveness."
Then the certitude of his ultimate success rose up in him, an able ally of hunger, and with a quick movement he slipped the coin into his pocket. "I'll pay you back, Gertrude, a hundred times over," he gulped out, his throat painfully contracted and in his eyes a swift hint of moisture. "Mark my words!" he cried with abrupt positiveness.
"Twenty is nothing but the 'sere and yellow leaf' of infantile caprice! But thirty is the jocund youth of character! On land or sea the Lord Almighty never made anything as radiantly, divinely young as thirty! Oh, but thirty's the darling age in a woman!" he added with sudden exultant positiveness. "Thirty's the birth of individuality! Thirty's the "
By the spring where Helen had found the willow rod and the bluebird feather, Howard stopped and pointed down. 'There's a set of tracks for you, he announced triumphantly. 'Suppose you spell 'em out, professor; what do you make of them? The professor studied them gravely. In the end he shook his head. 'Coyote? he suggested. Howard shook his head. 'No coyote, he said with positiveness.
I wish we had the baby's testimony; and yet if we had it it would not do us any good a furtive conjecture, a sly insinuation, a pious "if" or two, would be smuggled in, here and there, with a solemn air of judicial investigation, and its positiveness would wilt into dubiety.
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