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The detective himself, when Spargo was shown in to him, was seated at the table, chewing an unlighted cigar, and engaged in the apparently aimless task of drawing hieroglyphics on scraps of paper. He looked up as the journalist entered, and held out his hand. "Well, I congratulate you on what you stuck in the Watchman this morning," he said. "Made extra good reading, I thought.
"Don't go back, Isaac don't go back!" implored Mrs. Scatchard, as he turned to go away, after seeing her safely seated again in her own room. "I must get the knife," he answered, under his breath. His mother tried to stop him again, but he hurried out without another word. On his return he found that his wife had discovered their secret departure from the house.
"Now, that is better," she said, with a little nod to him, her blue eyes full of triumph, and she seated herself quietly on the rock. Keith began to scold her, but she laughed at him. He had done it often, she said, and what he could do she could do. The beauty of the wide landscape sank into both their minds, and after a little they both took a graver tone.
"You are mistaken," answered the abbé, with a slight smile: "I am dispensed from a certain number of religious exercises!" "A fig for you, my fine fellow!" said Fandor to himself. "The deuce is in if I do not catch you out over one of your lies!" The little abbé was seated on a chair attending to his nails.
When we were fairly seated, it was certainly an agreeable spectacle to look up and down the long vista of earnest faces, and behold them so resolute, so conscious that there was an important business in hand, and so determined to be equal to the occasion.
Restraining speech and the senses one should practise Yoga during the hours after dusk, the hours before dawn, and at dawn of day, seated on a mountain summit, or at the foot of a goodly tree, or with a tree before him.
The merchant was introduced, and seated in a convenient place, from whence he might easily have a full view of the king, and hear him talk familiarly to those that stood near his person.
In fact, she had given me the impression that my arrival had not been welcome to her. Nelly seated herself in a low rocking-chair, and scanned me rather mischievously before she proceeded: 'You are such a pretty, bright little thing to look at, that Bible reading seems so incongruous!
After the king had been seated a moment, he rose and asked us to be seated; so we took our places, all save the king dropping our hats beside us on the floor because of his Majesty's presence. I sat next to De Grammont, almost opposite the Abbé, and had a good opportunity to observe the French emissary.
He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her.
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