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A waste of power for it was a kind of power; he sprang to his feet and stood frowning against the ruddy light, so deep in his struggling thoughts that he did not notice a man, mounting from the lower terraces, who stopped to look at him. The stranger scrutinized Claude with interest.
He brought letters to you and Doris, and she was eager to take hers over to Betty. She will stay to supper." He scrutinized the card while his breath came in strangling gasps, but he preserved his composure outwardly. "Did you did he " pausing confusedly. "I did not see him," returned Miss Recompense quietly. "I was not in company trim, and he asked for Doris.
He let her stand while he scrutinized her briefly. She looked ill. Her eyes were dull and marked by surrounding darkness. She had no color. He shook his head Like a displeased lion. "Miss Frazer," he said, gruffly, "I make it a practice always to mind my own business except when there's some reason for not minding it which is frequent." "Yes, sir," she said, as he paused. "Yes, sir.... Yes, sir.
She scrutinized the sparse growth, the leafless bushes about the spot, looking for signs of a struggle, and the question in her heart was, "My God, was he alive or dead?" The thing she held in her hand was a blossom of the pink moccasin flower, carefully pressed, as though for the pages of a herbarium; The bit of paper to which it was attached was crumpled and discoloured.
If this was the way an ordinary scout travelled, what would be the proper equipment of a patrol leader? It staggered poor Keekie Joe just to think of this. And a scoutmaster! "Didn't I tell you how it was with scouts?" Pee-wee demanded. "Now you see!" Keekie Joe rubbed his eyes to make sure he was awake and scrutinized Pee-wee shrewdly.
Brooke scrutinized the good Russell closely, and expressed his opinions with great freedom, and a severe criticism followed, in which these two, safe, as they supposed, in the ignorance of the foreigner, made very severe strictures upon Russell's whole personnel. Russell, for his part, watched them as well as he could, and listened attentively, without being in the least offended.
He scrutinized every chest and closet with all the provocative slowness of a physiologist viewing under the microscope the corpuscles of some unhappy frog. The information he had received from Rome had evidently quieted his larger doubts; but these people, from the princess down to the impossible concierge, were a new species to him, well worth watching.
If we hope to strengthen freedom in the world we must be ever mindful of how our own conduct reacts elsewhere. No nation has ever been so floodlighted by world opinion as the United States is today. Everything we do is carefully scrutinized by other peoples throughout the world. The bad is seen along with the good. Because we are human we err.
Keep your mouth shut till I tell ye to open it to Cobden, mind ye, and everybody else. Better help Green overhaul that line. That'll do, Fogarty." Tod dipped his head his sign of courteous assent and backed out of the room. The captain continued motionless, his eyes fixed on space. Once he turned, picked up the paper, scrutinized the handwriting word for word, and tossed it back on the desk.
While these two courses may finally bring about the same result, the latter is much the more economical plan, for the following reason: The individual statements vary greatly in value, as we have seen, some requiring only slight attention, while others must be closely scrutinized. What determines their value is their relation to the leading ideas.
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