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Neither spoke for a long time; an awed silence rested on them. The great waves of flame continued to ascend, sending up streamers and ribbons of vivid light high into the heavens.
"But you saw it, didn't you?" Trigger asked, trying to look back to the small open door into the storerooms they'd just passed. Quillan sighed. "Certainly," he said. "Guy in space armor." "But what's he doing there?" "Checking something, I suppose." His hand left her shoulder; and, for just a moment, his finger rested lightly across her lips. Trigger glanced up at him.
The bridge in question was made of loose tree-trunks thrown across the river and pegged down on either side where the ends rested upon the steep banks. After crossing the log-bridge, Polly led the way towards what seemed to be a veritable wilderness of forest.
The two boys looked at Andy. He scratched his head in perplexity. "I can't be sure, but it seems to me that we came past here," he said. "I seem to remember that big rock." "There are lots like it," observed Jack. "Suppose we try over to the left," spoke Mark, after they had rested for ten minutes.
After an earthquake, piles on which buildings rested were found driven into the ground, and chimneys crushed at base. From what direction did the shock come? Chimneys standing on the south walls of houses toppled over on the roof. Should you infer that the shock in this case came from the north or south?
Feeling deeply his own degradation, it seemed to him that even the chance eyes that rested on him as he passed by must see it too, and despise him; and he hurried on through the bitter cold, eager only to get out of sight. He had not forgotten Stephen Grattan's letter; but he said to himself that it would be time enough to present it when he had found work and a settled place of abode.
They stared at Marco furtively, feeling as if he were a creature of another world because he had lived with this man. They stared at The Rat in a new way also. The wonderful-looking hand had rested on his shoulder, and he had been told that what he had done was magnificent. "When you said you wished your father could have seen the drill," said The Rat, "you took my breath away.
Van Torp; he came over on the same steamer. The others at the table were suddenly silent, and seemed to be listening. Lady Maud's clear eyes rested on Mr. Feist's face. 'He's quite a wonderful man, I think, observed the latter. 'Yes, assented the Primadonna indifferently. 'Don't you think he is a wonderful man? insisted Mr. Feist, with his disagreeable drawl.
Those of the better class rested in mean rectangular chambers, hastily built of yellow bricks, without ornaments or treasures; a few vessels, however, of coarse pottery contained the provisions left to nourish the departed during the period of his existence.
At the house, when they had rested a while on the veranda, Marion dismissed Smythe as quickly as she could without abruptness; and when he had gone she hastened to her room, and locked the door, and flung herself down on the bed, with her hands clasped behind her head, to stare up at the ceiling in a whirl of thoughts. There was a mystery! There was a motive behind Haig's conduct!
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