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"I don't know where the baby is. That's why I want to forget. I can't find him." "Can't find him? What do you mean by 'can't find him'?" Molly faced about squarely, suddenly. "I've asked you not to talk about it. I've been terribly unhappy and so miserable.... It's only lately I've begun to be at all reconciled." "Nevertheless, I will hear," snapped the man angrily. "I will hear!
"I was ordered to go over the graphs again, to look for any possible clue in a worker's mental make-up that would lead him to a criminal act." She paused and looked up at him squarely. "Do you suspect me too?" "I'm sorry, Joan," said the young captain. "But this whole business is getting me down.
It is very irregular and I've a board of directors' meeting Wednesday." "Yes, Miss Scullen, not beyond Tuesday evening." When Lilly entered the infirmary the smell of iodine smote her queerly and with an unnamable terror. Her child lay sleeping on a pillow hedged in with a chair, and, bending over, the aroma struck her squarely and with a close pungency.
This afternoon they have all gone blackberrying in a hay cart, but I'd rather come here." At this point, happening to think that the class in Colburn who were toeing the mark so squarely, would perhaps like a chance to recite, Jenny seated herself near the window, and throwing off her hat, made fun for herself and some little boys, by tickling their naked toes with the end of her riding-whip.
Then as her sobs died away, and she became calmer, the old physician said: "You must not take on so, Vi. I know it is hard, but you must meet the issue squarely. At the same time you must realize that even the most suspicious circumstances may be explained away.
Looking down upon or squarely into a mountain covered with a heavy growth of birch and maple, and shone upon by the sun, is a sight peculiarly agreeable to me. How closely the swelling umbrageous heads of the trees fit together, and how the eye revels in the flowing and easy uniformity, while the mind feels the ruggedness and terrible power beneath!
Then, apparently recognizing the uselessness of any further evasion, he met the issue squarely. "Well, since you crowd me to it," he cried, flaring up, "I am too good! I'm too good a man to drink when I don't want to drink I'm too good to accept treats when I don't stand treat!
It was my impulse to escape the grilling that this merciless woman was evidently going to put me to; my first primitive instinct to strike my adversary with some bitterly worded accusation and then turn and fly. But I stood my ground. Without a quiver of obvious embarrassment, or more than a second's hesitation, I replied, looking at Mrs. Sewall squarely. "My name is Ruth Chenery Vars."
This feeling was, however, blended with a wife's and mother's fears lest her beloved husband and daughter should take harm from the savage monsters. Mr. Dagget and his daughter, having carefully reloaded their rifles, had now crept up cautiously behind, and watching their opportunity, had planted a ball squarely in each of the bears, just behind their fore-shoulders.
Once he saw his chance, and planted his knuckles squarely between her eyes where her frown was knotted hard, hoping to stun her and end the fight once and for all. But the blow did not seem to affect her in the least.
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