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Updated: May 4, 2025
It was the look of a courageous man sinking beneath waves; but the sweat and whipcord veins were eloquent of his frenzied resistance. "Someone's coming! Someone's coming!" she suddenly cried, rushing to the door and flinging it wide open. Tusk looked up with a snarl. "Quick! Quick!" she cried again. "Here, this way quick! He's killing a man! Oh, thank God!"
Jedfield's pearls and other trinkets must have been somewhere on board, in someone's possession, if the yacht vision wasn't true. Yet the strictest search gave no sign of them. It was a miracle how they were disposed of, unless they were thrown overboard and picked up by someone in the plot, as the Countess said." "Is that why you hate to think of the trip because you lost your watch?"
"Iron blasts will sweep through the passage; they will find him through the torn shirt and the poor grey trousers, the torn waist-coat, the black jacket, and the threadbare over-coat someone's cast-off garment.... Now, he may have been born blind, or he may have become blind; in any case he has been blind for many years, and if he persist in living he will have to brave many winters in that passage, for he is not an old man.
Amateur sport is free from betting, but a good deal of outside betting goes on among the public, and it is possible that it might be worth someone's while to get at a player as the ruffians of the turf get at a race-horse. There is one explanation.
Vera had said practically nothing about herself; she remained in the shadow, while the whole garish light fell on him. "There was another letter," he said sharply, "written on blue paper." Vera had not left the room, but someone's hand was on the lock. "Who is there?" asked Raisky with a start. In the doorway appeared Vassilissa's anxious face. "It's I," she said in a low voice.
It was beginning to get dark and he was getting hungry and tired. "I'll turn down the next alley I come to and see if I can't find someone's back gate open where I can go in and rest," thought Billy.
For, of course, the Queen's idea of proper dress was the dress that had been proper for the working-classes 3,000 years ago in Babylon and there was not much of it. 'Lawky me! said the marrow-selling woman, 'whatever could a-took me to come out this figure? and she wheeled her cart away very quickly indeed. 'Someone's made a pretty guy of you talk of guys, said a man who sold bootlaces.
He remembered to be glad now that no letter of appeal had actually gone to Gashwiler. Suppose he had built up in the old gentleman's mind a false hope that he might again employ Merton Gill? A good thing he had held out! Yesterday he was starving and penniless; to-day he was fed and on someone's payroll for probably as much money a week as Gashwiler netted from his entire business.
Someone's comin'. The next corner was a man on a grey horse. 'Bail up! cried Red Hand from the cover of the saplings. 'Stir a foot an' you're a dead man. The rider waited for no more, but threw himself forward on his horse's neck, dug in his spurs, and galloped furiously away in the direction of Cow Flat, hearing the reports of the boys' crackers only when he was far out of range.
Someone's after that non-dividend paying stock!" Like a man in a dream I watched that stock start on its dizzy climb. In five minutes it had reached 55, and by leaps and bounds it soared to 70. My brokers rushed to me with their congratulations. Did I wish to place any orders? Some strong interest undoubtedly was back of the rise? I informed them I had purchased all I desired.
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