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Updated: May 21, 2025
It grew in his deep boy's eyes as he gazed directly into the pupils of the long soft dark ones. His body felt as if it were growing taller. "You are very clever," he said slowly. Then, after a second's pause, he added, "I was too young to know that there was any one so clever in the world." The Lovely Person laughed, but she did not laugh easily. She spoke to her companion.
We are always on the lookout for gas, and when the wind is dangerous a "gas-alert" signal is given, when every man wears his mask in a ready position so that it can be donned without a second's delay. I was really sorry to leave those trenches. So many months was I there that they were something like a home to me, and who knew what was awaiting one in another and an unknown section?
But her ears held only the memory of a man's footsteps the eager tread that had never lingered so much as a second's space on its way to her; that had often stumbled slightly on the threshold of her presence; that she had heard and welcomed in her dreams; that would not come again. The raindrops lay like tears upon her face.
He seemed to be reading something, and it was evident that her entrance had been unobserved either by him or by his guest. For a second's space Eden stood very still. There was much of the child in her nature, and during that second she meditated on the feasibility of giving them both some little surprise.
Maybe you'll be the one to catch it," muttered Mumps. Nevertheless, he said no more. "Are you ready?" asked the boy who acted as timekeeper. "I am," said Dick. "So am I," returned Baxter, and hurled himself at his opponent without a second's delay. He had expected to catch Dick napping, but he found himself mistaken.
He would like to write a great poem, but he had never felt a second's inspiration, and had never wasted time in the endeavor to force it. Failing that, he would like to write a novel; but, fluently and even brilliantly as he sometimes talked, his pen was not ready, and he was conscious of a conspicuous lack of imagination.
This formality had been rendered impossible by the ingenious action of Lord Reggie, who had forgotten about it, and evoked continuous music from the organ ever since the amen of the prayer preceding it, finally bursting into a loud fugue by Bach, played without the pedal part, just when the curate was venturing to meekly insert it into a second's interstice of comparative silence, brought about by the solo employment of the vox humana without accompaniment.
Juliette after a second's hesitation threw it among her dresses in the valise. Then she too went out of the room. A happy moment. The search in the Citizen-Deputy's bedroom had proved as fruitless as that in his study. Merlin was beginning to have vague doubts as to whether he had been effectively fooled. His manner towards Deroulede had undergone a change.
She was seated at a table in the writing-room, and was in the act of sealing a letter. She looked up as I entered, and, after a second's hesitation, bowed coldly. I summoned up all my pluck, however, and approached her. "Good evening, Miss Van Hoyt!" I said. "Good evening, Mr. Courage!" she answered, proceeding to stamp her envelope. "Have you been to the theatre?" I asked.
It was only a second's work, but it cost her much; for in the act, down crashed one of the mechanical contrivances used in a late spectacle, and in its fall stretched Christie stunned and senseless on the stage.
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