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"You won't be half as lonely here as I shall down there in a strange city; and when you clean away the supper dishes and light your pipe and think of me, I'll be lighting mine and thinking of you and " He stopped. Captain had trotted in, and was sitting close by, looking first at one and then at the other of us quizzically.

Mayn't we have mother to back us?" "I've sent mother to bed," Mr. Birch explained. "She wanted to come down to hear you play, but I wouldn't let her. And indeed there are moments " He glanced quizzically at his eldest son. "Yes, sir," Lansing responded, promptly. "There are moments when the furnace pipes convey up-stairs as much din as she can bear." Mr.

"What made you catch your breath when I told my name that night I came?" he asked quizzically, but with a tensity behind the lightness of his tone and behind the little smile in his eyes as well. "Where had you ever heard of me before?" Billy Louise gasped again, sent a lightning-thought into the future, and answered more casually than she had hoped she could.

"I suppose I'd see less of you all if you moved to town. Marian used to run off from Miss Waring's to cheer me up, mostly when her lessons were bad, wasn't it, Marian?" "I love this house, Aunt Sally, but you can't have us all on your hands all the time." "Well," Mrs. Owen remarked, glancing round the table quizzically, "I might do worse.

If he could have married her he would have cleared all his debts over and over and that's what he had hoped for. The disappointment was too much for him." "But didn't he LOVE her?" Lydia Herbert put the question almost imperatively. Mr. Sam Gwent raised his eyebrows quizzically.

He eyed us quizzically for a moment or two. Realising from our faces that we were not playing a joke, but ventilating a serious grievance, he stood between the officious sentry and the vehicle until the representative returned. The Embassy car drove out of the camp with the letters still staring out in a gaunt appeal from the thick dust.

"Yes, I know and she tried to do EVERYTHING for us, too," retorted Bertram, quizzically, as he turned away. Early in October Mrs. Stetson arrived at the Beacon Street house, but she did not stay long. "I've come for just a few things I want, and to do some shopping," she explained. "But Aunt Hannah," remonstrated William, "what is the meaning of this?

All the time he was speaking his fork was busy clearing the stalls of their litter, and, at the finish, he leant on the haft of it and quizzically smiled into the girl's beautiful, half-troubled face. Joan contemplated protesting, but somehow his manner was so friendly, so frank and honest, that she felt it would be ungracious of her.

Hotchkiss here," I finished, "believes that the man Sullivan, whom we are momentarily expecting, committed the crime. Mr. McKnight is inclined to implicate Mrs. Conway, who stabbed Bronson and then herself last night. As for myself, I am open to conviction." "I hope not," said the stout detective quizzically. And then Alison was announced.

Old Laughlin, who was now all of sixty years of age, owned a seat on the Board, and was worth in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand dollars, looked at Cowperwood quizzically. "Well, now, if you'd 'a' come along here ten or fifteen years ago you might 'a' got in on the ground floor of a lot of things," he observed.

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