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She tried to arrange Una's hair so that its pale golden texture would shine in broad, loose undulations, and she was as excited as Una when they heard Walter's bouncing steps in the hall, his nervous tap at the door, his fumbling for a push-button.
Rockerbilt knew this copy was in existence she'd never wear the other in public again as long as she lived without bringing a dozen detectives along with her. No, indeed a dinner. I want you to connect the electric lights of the dining-room with the push-button at my foot, so that at any moment I can throw the dining-room into darkness. Mrs. Rockerbilt will sit at my left Tommy Dare to the right.
That tiny push-button on the panel, of the color of stone, was in the shadow of her figure against the lantern's rays, which gave a glazed and haunted effect to Bouchard's eyes, rolling as he studied the walls and ceiling and floor of the tunnel in final baffled and desperate inquiry. "Did you see anything? Did you go into all the dungeons?" Marta called to him. Bouchard did not answer.
There were the President and his cabinet and some others who assist in making up the mind of the statesman. "Now a dash of crime," said I. "High or low?" asked Memnon, fingering the push-button alongside of the window. "The highest you've got," said I. I shall not describe what I saw. It was not very horrible. It was rather discouraging. It dealt wholly with the errors of what is known as Society.
"Give me that twenty thousand dollars you justly owe me twenty thousand dollars I have to my credit on your books, which you are withholding just because you have the power to withhold it." "And in return " "I'll tear up the deadly document I extorted from Murphy and report a mere towage job to my owners." Cappy pressed the push-button and a boy appeared. "Tell Mr.
The house seemed dark and deserted. Morgan began to wonder if he had been wise in accompanying the men, but he quickly decided that there could be little or no reason for doing personal injury to him, and so he unhesitatingly followed Cavendale up the steps, while Harrigan came behind. The cab rumbled away. Cavendale pressed the push-button of the electric doorbell in a peculiar manner.
Unfortunately you've put me in your debt an obligation I must pay in full." "Why not get a receiver appointed, and reorganize?" gibed Blake. "That's one of the ways you dodge obligations, isn't it?" Mr. Leslie's wrinkled face quickly turned red, and from red to purple. He thrust a quivering finger against a push-button. Blake grinned exultantly and picked up his hat.
At the top of the stairs Benny tried to open the door, but as it did not give at his pressure, he knocked lustily, and called "Aunt Jane, Aunt Jane!" "Isn't this the bell?" hazarded Mr. Smith, his finger almost on a small push-button near him. "Yep, but it don't go now.
I will now place needle and all on the machine and touch it off with electric current;" and as his hand hovered over the push-button there were cries of "Stop! stop!" but the finger descended, and instantly there was a terrific explosion. The very foundation seemed shaken, and a dense cloud of smoke rolled over the heads of the audience.
He's working hard, and his neck's so thin that his Adam's apple sticks out like a push-button, but he gets his reward in finding his crop running much higher than he had figured. He's as keen as ever he was for power and prosperity. He wants success, and night and day he's scheming for it.
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