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His bare breast and his face glistened in the light; his sarong, soaked, clung about his legs; he had his sheathed kriss in his left hand; and wisps of wet hair, escaping from under his red kerchief, stuck over his eyes and down his cheeks. He stepped in with a headlong stride and looking over his shoulder like a man pursued. Hollis turned on his side quickly and opened his eyes.

"You will not need that," she said. "I thought that I should not need it in yonder inn, but I did," he answered. Whereat she laughed, then turned, put her hand upon his shoulder and spoke to him earnestly. "See, friend," she whispered, "you want to walk in the fresh air do you not? and to learn certain things and I wish to tell you them.

Oh, Captain, that is a charming ruse de guerre, but do not hope that it shall succeed!" "Oh! mother, believe him, believe him," cried Amelia: "I am sure he tells you the truth, and he speaks for your sake, not for his own." Amelia interceded in vain. Mr. Palmer patted Amelia's shoulder fondly, saying, "You are a dear good creature." "A dear credulous creature!" exclaimed Lady Hunter.

Breathless she arrived in the hall to find her uncle descending the steps; she rushed after him and laid her hand on his shoulder. "Uncle Jasper, I want you. Where are you going?" "Hoity-toity," said the old gentleman, turning round in some surprise, and even dismay when he caught sight of her face. "I am going to the club, child. What next. I sent Hinton up to you. What more do you want?"

"Just the dark wall," was the reply. Ned passed the print to him and left the tent. "Yes," Frank said, with a threat in his voice, there's a face looking over Jimmie's shoulder. "Oh, I wish we had known!" "Can you see the face plainly?" asked Teddy. "Quite plainly," was the reply.

Wot's a keepin' him?" said the first speaker, glaring over his shoulder in the direction of the door. "Twelve sharp, that's wot it says," shuddered a small, pinched thief. "He's a-swingin' now." Suddenly a wild, appalling shriek arose from the corner behind them. As one man, they whirled.

He heard an exclamation at his shoulder and turned to find that Captain Sam had also been regarding the parting at the gate. "Humph!" grunted the captain. "Phin looks as if he'd been eatin' somethin' that didn't set any too good. What's started him to obeyin' orders from that Grover man all to once?

When they got to the theatre, almost every seat was filled and a pretty little usher hurried them through the crowd at the door, assuring them importantly over her shoulder that the concert would begin in one minute and she couldn't seat even box-holders during a number.

When all was still again he threw the bedding over his shoulder, went down and speedily checked Ella's wild cries that he should not delay.

When the body is bundled in the pit, I see myself lie still under the quick-lime with the red mark round my throat." Charley touched him on the shoulder. "Jo poor Jo, my friend!" he said. Jo raised his eyes, red with an unnatural fire, deep with gratitude. "As I sit at my dinner, with the sun shining and the woods green and glad, and all the world gay, I have see what happened all over again.