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"Of course not; the risk's mine," returned Bland; and Herbert thought he meant to follow his advice. A few minutes later, the train which they were waiting for came in, and Herbert tactfully stood aside when Bland helped Sylvia to alight. Watching her face, he concluded by the absence of any sign of surprise that the meeting had been arranged.
"But Dillon, for instance would he have been happier if I'd been passive?" Amherst seemed to ponder. "There again how can one tell?" "And the risk's not worth taking?" "No!" She paused, and they looked at each other again. "Do you mean that seriously, I wonder? Do you " "Act on it myself? God forbid! The gods drive so badly.
His eye kindled at this. "You're a sportsman, sir," he exclaimed, and he advanced at once toward Satan. I saw in him something which awakened a responsive chord in my nature. He was a man to take a risk and welcome it for the risk's sake. Moreover, he was a horseman; as I saw by his quick glance over Satan's furniture.
But all the same I can't help feeling that you're running a grave risk." "Marriage is always a grave risk, and his risk's as grave as mine." "That's his affair! If he's afraid, let him back out. I wish to God he would." Isabel reclined in her chair, folding her arms and gazing a while at her cousin. "I don't think I understand you," she said at last coldly.
"Well, as long as everything's safe," said the pawnbroker's assistant, who leaned his elbows on the counter, so that his head was close to the partition; "but we've got a good deal here now, you know, and if the thing should be found out ." "Yah! who's to find it out?" retorted Bashley; "I tell you everything's ready, and the risk's mine.
That every man was half a horse And half an alligator. Ludlow knew his audience and he saw his chance. Setting the words to Risk's tune, "Love Laughs" at Locksmiths, donning the costume of a Western riverman, and arming himself with a long "squirrel" rifle, he presented himself before the house.
He was still standing sullenly at the sideboard when he heard the doctor's carriage, and went out to him. He had to wait for him to come downstairs. "Well, doctor?" "The situation's the same. Have you decided?" "Yes," said Soames; "don't operate!" "Not? You understand the risk's great?" In Soames' set face nothing moved but the lips. "You said there was a chance?"
He was still standing sullenly at the sideboard when he heard the doctor's carriage, and went out to him. He had to wait for him to come downstairs. "Well, doctor?" "The situation's the same. Have you decided?" "Yes," said Soames; "don't operate!" "Not? You understand the risk's great?" In Soames' set face nothing moved but the lips. "You said there was a chance?"
None of the folk around here, sir, join in my doubts as to the reality of Mountain's fight with the devil." As Ben closed, a sound of sleigh-bells came up the road, and Lund opened the door, at which appeared a light sleigh driven by one of Risk's sons. "You and uncle are wanted in town at once. L. has sent you this letter, and says " And he whispered a few words in his father's ear.
When you see the whole collection you'll warm up your ideas. You're a terrible plucky kid to trust your own soul on a trifling little raft like this religion of yours. You better not overload it with more souls, though; the risk's too tremendous. "Go sleep on your fairy story, boy. I don't see for the life of me how your health could have broken studying such a mild mixture as that.
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