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I've been in Parliament a generation or so, and I've never known an amateur more daring and skilful. I should have given him office had I remained in power. Look at him, and tell me if he wouldn't have been worth the backing." As Lord Windlehurst uttered the last word with an arid smile, he looked quizzically at the central figure of a group of people gaily talking.
Quin looked at him quizzically. "I can receive and obey the orders of the commanding officer," he said. Mr. Bangs, being humor-proof, evidently considered this impertinent, and repeated his question sharply. "Oh, I'll do anything," said Quin rashly. "Soldiers can't be choosers these days." Mr.
Bassett studied a moment, fingering the memorandum he had written; then he looked at Dan quizzically. "Just between ourselves, Dan, do you really think the Colonel's straight?" "If he isn't, he has fooled a lot of people," Dan replied. He had no idea of what had happened, but he felt that all was well with Sylvia. It seemed a long time since Bassett had called him Dan!
Bolton's eyes were already clouded with the trouble of his speculation. Dick Herron glanced at his comrade quizzically, the strange cast flickering in the wind of his thought. "Oh, Sam!" said he. "What?" asked the older man, rousing. "Strikes me that by the time we get through drawin' that double pay on this job, we'll be rich men and old!" The men stood looking vaguely upward at the stars.
We can get them going hard enough to make them think they are for awhile, but after they've thrown away their crutches and got back home what then?" "Well, what then?" inquired Doc Madison easily. "They'll yell 'fake! and swear out warrants," said Helena, her dark eyes studying Doc Madison. "Not according to statistics," replied Doc Madison, and his lips twitched quizzically at the corners.
"Oh, 'cause I think it would be nice to have a celebration, and you can't celebrate without a hero." "Do you call Pocahontas a hero?" asked King, quizzically. "Well, she's a heroine, it's all the same. When do you s'pose her birthday was, Father?" "I've no idea, Midget; and Cousin Jack hasn't, either. But if you want to celebrate her, you can choose any day.
I ain't goin' to be stood off with no such a bluff ez that! Who nussed yuh when yuh got shot up by this yeah very mizzuble outfit las' summeh? Yuh come along o' me without no moah talk. An' when yuh git theah yuh go down on yuh stubboahn knees to that little angel an' promise thet yuh'll be good." He laughed quizzically. "Is that one of the conditions she imposes that getting down on my knees?
Besides, the young man has some sort of interest in the manufacturing of candies." Trust the Lady from Poughkeepsie to put the best foot forward when it became necessary to do so. The professor was gazing quizzically at the flushed face of his daughter. "So that is what you have been doing this summer, is it?" he said. "That and looking after Cap'n Abe," confessed Louise.
She liked a man whom other men respected for the very traits that his expression had revealed. No man would be likely to adopt an air of superiority toward him; none would attempt to trifle with him. She felt that she ought not to trifle, but moved by some unaccountable impulse, she laughed. He turned his head at the laugh and looked quizzically at her.
Cowder cut off with a sharp click, and Mike the Angel looked quizzically at the dead screen. Was he imagining things, or was there a peculiar note in Cowder's voice? Two minutes later he got his answer. Mike the Angel was sitting behind his desk in his private office when the announcer chimed.
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