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"Because, my dear, overcautious, and thoroughly unprincipled enemy, it was sold five minutes ago for the tidy sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and if you don't believe me, come over to my office and I'll let you feast your eyes on the certified check." He could hear a distinct gasp. After an interval of five seconds, however, the Colonel recovered his poise. "I congratulate you," he purred.
Obediently George took the wheel and touched the self-starter. The engine purred contentedly. "By gum!" cried George inelegantly, "she's done it!" He produced a towel from the box for Norma, who managed to rub off most of the grease from her hands. She put on her jacket and climbed into her place between Betty and her sister.
Such contact was not unusual between Talented family members or extremely close friends, but Medart was neither, and she had not found herself reading him that way. "Maybe you know you shouldn't be able to, so you can't, but I don't, so I can?" Corina purred, wishing she could laugh. "That is as reasonable an explanation as we are likely to get, I would say.
But all the cups and saucers being clean, and in their proper places in the corner-cupboard; and the brass toasting-fork hanging in its usual nook and spreading its four idle fingers out as if it wanted to be measured for a glove; there remained no other visible tokens of the meal just finished, than such as purred and washed their whiskers in the person of the basking cat, and glistened in the gracious, not to say the greasy, faces of her patrons.
"That fellow knows how to ride," he said. "If he keeps the 'King' like that, the race is ours." "Oh yes," agreed Vermont, smiling grimly; "he understands him, evidently. It is to be hoped he keeps him cool till the spurt comes." "Which will be after the last jump," put in Lord Standon, as he shifted his field-glasses. "Exactly," purred Jasper.
One almost listened to hear them crack in the stillness of the long nights. Little snow fell, and it was soon dispersed whirled away on the fierce blasts that swept the island. Uncle William went back and forth between woodshed and house, carrying great armfuls of wood. A roaring fire warmed the red room, Juno purred in comfort in its depths.
We were a tree whose roots were in the desert and whose branches were over all the north, and there is no Telling of the Queres, Cochiti, or Ty-uonyi, O Kebeyde," he turned to the puma, "which I cannot match with a better of those same Dine." "There were Dine in this Telling," purred Moke-icha, "and one puma.
Thy ship is a petty thing." "Now, by Heaven, Venner, he has you there!" laughed Tomlin, never ceasing for a moment from ogling Pascherette, who purred with contentment and smiled slyly at the frown that came to Milo's face. "Oh, yes, a poor thing!" laughed Pascherette, hugging her knees and rippling over with amusement. "My mistress is a great queen.
'Please your ladyship, said the waiting-woman, 'here's a poor cat come into the house to-night, just as we were wanting one will your ladyship be pleased to let it remain here? But, first, bring it here, and let me stroke it. You may imagine how puss purred her very loudest as the countess patted her, and called her a pretty cat.
So careless!" she purred. And afterwards she smilingly accepted a proffered armchair in the midst of the scene of her successful encounter. It would have been thoughtful, I think, and more humane to have waited until the wounded had been carried away or crawled away. For there was no one to offer a helping hand to Edith and me. I didn't expect it.
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