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And now, at last, he is in jail, charged, perhaps, with killing a fellow being." "I wonder if Mr. Leigh is dead yet?" mused Dick. "I like being off here in the deep forest like this, but there's one drawback. We don't hear much news." "What news do you want?" asked a familiar voice behind him. Soft-footed Deputy Simmons stalked into the circle. "We were just wondering, Mr.
"Jasper is a sleek brute," he said viciously. She laid her hand on his arm. "Please be patient," she said. "Jasper has said nothing whatever to me and has never been anything but most polite and kind." "I know that variety of kindness," growled the young man. "He is one of those sly, soft-footed sneaks you can never get to the bottom of.
Months ago she had played for her freedom and lost. This exquisite building had been built for her, horses were hers, and camels; jewels were literally flung at her feet. She clapped her hands and soft-footed natives ran to do her bidding, flowers and fruit came daily from the oasis, sweetmeats and books each day from the nearest city.
He was quick to learn, and Jolly Roger's word became his law, so that only once or twice was he told a thing, and it became a part of his understanding. While the keen, shrewd brain of his Airedale father developed inside Peter's head, the flesh and blood development of his big, gentle, soft-footed Mackenzie hound mother kept pace in his body. His legs and feet began to lose their grotesqueness.
There was nothing but Prayer-time to look forward to. He began to fidget again. He filled his pipe and thought better about smoking it. Then he rang the bell for his glass of water. After more delay than was at all necessary Essy appeared, bringing the glass of water on a plate. She came in, soft-footed, almost furtive, she who used to enter so suddenly and unabashed.
From Babylon one can go to Bulak; and on to Bab Zouweleh, with its crying children, its veiled women, its cake-sellers, its fruiterers, its turbaned Ethiopians, its black Nubians, and almost fair Egyptians; one can visit the bazaars, or on a market morning spend an hour at Shareh-el-Gamaleyeh, watching the disdainful camels pass, soft-footed, along the shadowy streets, and the flat-nosed African negroes, with their almost purple-black skins, their bulging eyes, in which yellow lights are caught, and their huge hands with turned-back thumbs, count their gains, or yell their disappointment over a bargain from which they have come out not victors, but vanquished.
He neglected his estate from every point of view, except the one of raising mortgages upon it so that he might have the wherewithal to add to his store of ceramic treasures. He lived luxuriously, employing a high-priced chef and soft-footed, well-trained servants to see to his comfort, because anything short of perfection grated on his artistic sensibilities.
"Some oatmeal and bacon and eggs. Yes, coffee. And some hot cakes, Charlie. Did you honest dream about me?" This last not to the Chinese waiter who had padded soft-footed to the kitchen. "Yes." She smiled shyly at him with sweet innocence, and he drew his chair a trifle closer "Tell me." "I don't like to." "But you must. Go on." "Well," very reluctantly.
When he sees you he lifts his lip and lets a flash of his teeth out, and then turns a little out of the course he was pursuing, depresses his head a bit, and strikes a long, soft-footed trot through the sage-brush, glancing over his shoulder at you, from time to time, till he is about out of easy pistol range, and then he stops and takes a deliberate survey of you; he will trot fifty yards and stop again another fifty and stop again; and finally the gray of his gliding body blends with the gray of the sage-brush, and he disappears.
Pedro and Lourenço, transporting the equipment, passed in and out soft-footed and almost unnoticed. At length the player, with a deprecatory smile and a half apology for "boring his guests," extended the instrument again toward the visitors. And McKay, silent McKay, took it. Sweet and low, out welled the haunting melody of "Annie Laurie."
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