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His own eyes took this opportunity to cast another sly look at the tell-tale goblet, hoping to light upon some method of spiriting it away. "Mr. McElroy," she suddenly exclaimed, "I have been talking to brother John, and have told him my views about you!" Brent's mouth opened a moment in surprise and then he frankly began to laugh. "I'm glad I wasn't in hearing distance!"
Radnor slowly shook his head. "I shall have to talk with Mose first and find out what he really saw." "Mose!" The Colonel laughed shortly. "He's like all the rest of the niggers. He doesn't know what he saw No sir! I've had enough of this ha'nt business; it's one thing when he spirits chickens from the oven, it's another when he takes to spiriting securities from the safe.
Here he found a complete set of plans worked out in every detail for spiriting the prisoner from San Antonio into Mexico during the State Fair. These plans were very elaborate, every item having been planned out from the purchase of tickets, and passing of baggage through the customs, to hotel accommodation in the City of Mexico and Tampico, and steamship tickets from Tampico to Europe.
And if any man amongst us has dropped words that have incensed him well, there have been men who have disappeared from amongst us and have never been seen more; and tales are whispered of horrid cries and groans that have issued as from the very bowels of the earth each time following their spiriting away."
Josie's answer was a kiss that promised all things; and then she ran away to do her 'gentle spiriting', like Ariel, leaving Demi to dream among the roses like Ferdinand.
I hope it may not be my worthy friend Mr Aaron, for, to tell you the truth, Mortimer, I doubt he may have a prepossession against me. I strongly suspect him of having had a hand in spiriting away Lizzie. 'Everything, returned Lightwood impatiently, 'seems, by a fatality, to bring us round to Lizzie. "About town" meant about Lizzie, just now, Eugene.
As for Lehmann, it was alleged that he had rendered assistance to Monferrand by spiriting away certain documents connected with the African Railways affair, whilst with regard to the smiling and extremely Parisian Amadieu, was it not to him that the government was indebted for Salvat's head? "You know," muttered Massot, "they've all come to be thanked for guillotining that man yesterday.
"'Tis well! Thou hast `done thy spiriting gently, or, for thy tardy coming, I would have sentenced thee to the task of infusing thy spirit into the consistent Eldon, or into Arthur Duke of Wellington where, like a viper at a file, thou shouldest have tortured thyself in vain." Bustle. I am not certain whether I spell this modern invention correctly; if not, I must plead ignorance.
With so many dinner-tables open to the lion, or even to the cub, they must do their spiriting dexterously if they would feed him.
Mucio, like his evil genius, was spiriting away his supplies just as they were reaching his hands; a threatening tempest seemed rolling up from France; the whole population of the Provinces which he had "reconciled" a million of paupers were crying to him for bread; great commercial cities, suddenly blasted and converted into dens of thieves and beggars, were cursing the royal author of their ruin, and uttering wild threats against his vicegerent; there seemed, in truth, nothing left for Alexander but to plunge headlong into destruction, when, lo!
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