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"Or give it a roll like a ball," added Lepitre. "That is a good idea," cried Toulan, "I'll have a little game of nine-pins. I am quite at home there, and can do it well. Now look sharp! I will contrive to roll the ball between the four feet of the table, and strike the foot of the queen." "There is no queen," cried Lepitre, passionately.
Ah! women are strange beings, Mr. Mahony, strange beings, as you are on the high road to discovering for yourself." Mahony returned to town on foot, the omnibus having ceased to run. As he walked at a quick pace, and keeping a sharp look-out; for the road was notoriously unsafe after dark he revolved his impressions of the interview.
For some moments Henshaw did not speak; indeed, it was probable that the unexpected success of his search for Edith Morriston for such doubtless was his object had so disagreeably startled him, that he was unable to pull those sharp wits of his together at once.
Edwards looked around at Jerome. "What you standin' there lookin' for?" said she, with her sharp, nervous voice. "Put them shoes down, an' bring that quart pail of milk out of the pantry. Be careful you don't spill it." Jerome obeyed. When he set the milk-pail on the table, Elmira gave him a quick, piteously confidential glance from under her tearful lids.
The transports themselves carried big guns fore and aft and were so equipped as to be able to give a good account of themselves should occasion arise; and as the voyage progressed a sharp lookout was kept aboard every vessel of' the flotilla, that a submarine might not come unheralded within striking distance of the transports or their convoy.
Jesse Smith saw '49 and '51. He wouldn't send me word like this unless there was hell to pay.... Come on!" He strode off down the slope with the men close around him, and they met other men on the way, all of whom crowded into the group, jostling, eager, gesticulating. Joan was left alone. She felt considerably perturbed, especially at Kells's sharp inquiry for Jim Cleve.
This Chia Yuen was, in real deed, sharp and quick-witted; and when he heard Pao-yue remark that he looked like his son, he readily gave a sarcastic smile and observed, "The proverb is true which says, 'the grandfather is rocked in the cradle while the grandson leans on a staff. But though old enough in years, I'm nevertheless like a mountain, which, in spite of its height, cannot screen the sun from view.
During the day, the rebels attacked the line on our right, and were repulsed, after a sharp fight, with considerable loss. They also advanced in our front, and opened fire on us; but only as accessory to the more determined movement on our right. The left of the regiment returned the fire; but we could not see the enemy, and there seemed no reason to justify a random fire.
The first proceeding was to clear out all the useless fragments of the spoiled rib, search every corner and see that there were no splinters left, and remove projecting particles of glue. All edges that were to come in contact with the fresh rib were washed, and where permissible, the surfaces made even by a slight levelling, finely shaving them with a sharp tool.
It was not lighted up, but a whiter and paler something appeared within its dark stone frame, and this something, attracted his gaze with an irresistible spell; it moved, and Sirona's greyhound set up a sharp barking. It was she it must be she!
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