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Finally she came in, her face wreathed with anticipatory smiles. But when her eyes fell on my forlorn, crumpled self she fairly jumped. "Katherine, what is the matter?" she asked sharply. "Didn't Mr. Sinclair " "Yes, he did," I said desperately. "And I've refused him. There now, Alicia!" Then I waited for the storm to burst. It didn't all at once.
The man's brow darkened. "Know them?" said he. "I know them much too well. Perry is as ungodly a cutthroat as ever killed an emigrant in cold blood, and he's got in his gang nearly all those hounds that tried to hang me. Why do you ask, Major?" Sinclair handed him the despatches. "You are the only man on the train to whom I have shown them," said he.
"Maybe I would, and maybe I wouldn't," answered Bill Sandersen gloomily. He went out onto the veranda and squinted thoughtfully into the darkness. Bill Sandersen was worried very worried. The moment he saw Sinclair enter the hotel, there had been a ghostly familiarity about the man. And he understood the reason for it as soon as he saw the name on the register. Sinclair!
We wish to haul up the fishing-punt before the ice sets in on the lake, and we are not sufficiently strong-handed." During the day Captain Sinclair took Alfred aside to know if the old hunter had obtained any information relative to the Indians. Alfred replied that they expected him every day, but as yet had not received any communication from him.
Miller knocked the gathering ash from the end of his cigar. "I was with him at the inquest yesterday." "I saw you both there." Whitney selected a cigar and, lighting it, sat back. "Did Foster happen to tell you that Sinclair Spencer had in his will made him executor of his estate?" "No."
I don't think she would have agreed to Jack Hawley being of the party, had not Bertha entertained a conviction that he was rather gone on Miss Sinclair, who by the way has, like her sister, money enough to disregard the fact that Jack is hardly in that respect well endowed. "However, it is time for me to be off; I see the skipper is getting the gig lowered.
Sinclair glanced at his watch, then he walked to the window and looked out. On a small mesa, or elevated-plateau, commanding the path to the railroad, he saw a number of men with rifles. "Just as I expected," said he. "Sam, ask one of the boys to go down to the track and, when the train arrives, tell the conductor to come here."
Mysie's jist cam' back, an' she has fented. Gie's a bit haun' wi' her to get her into bed. Puir thing. She's fair done up," and Matthew tried to raise up the prostrate figure of his bairn; but sank back too weak, and too overcome to do anything. "Dinna you trouble yourself, Matthew," said Mrs. Sinclair, gathering the prostrate girl in her arms and raising her up on her knee like a child.
The circumstances which led my father, Dr Andrew Sinclair, to settle in New Granada the land of my birth are of so romantic a character, that I cannot better preface an account of my own adventures in that country than by narrating them.
A few thoughts here, on the quantity of sleep required by the young after they approach maturity, may not be misplaced. Jeremy Taylor thought that for a healthy adult, three hours in twenty-four were enough for all the purposes of sleep. Baxter thought four hours about a reasonable time; Wesley, six; Lord Coke and Sir Wm. Jones, seven; and Sir John Sinclair, eight.
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