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"I'm very glad to meet you," said Charming Billy stammeringly. "Won't you sit down? I I wish I'd known company was coming." He smiled reassuringly, and then glanced frowningly around the cabin. Even for a line-camp, he told himself disgustedly, it was "pretty sousy." "You must be cold," he added, seeing her glance toward the stove.
"And perhaps you would have spoiled it all," she answered. "We walked down the path for perhaps three or four minutes, but at length the king spoke, stammeringly, and said that if I would bring the treaty to his closet this evening at nine o'clock, he would sign it." "The dog!" I exclaimed.
As she came towards her husband she motioned the hall porter to put the bags in the dressing-room. There was about her an assurance and authority, very quiet, but undeniable. "Here you are, Osborn," she said. "Hallo, dear!" he answered, rather stammeringly. "How are you? How are the "
It was Rupert who broke the silence finally, broke it hurriedly, stammeringly, as though it had become unbearable. "All right, old chap. I didn't mean quite that. But you you shouldn't badger me. I'm not used to it." "Sit down," Mordaunt said. He obeyed awkwardly, and to cover his discomfiture took up his glass to drink. But before it reached his lips Mordaunt spoke again. "Rupert!"
"He still lives," he exclaimed, breathing more freely, "and with God's help we will save him." Suddenly a terrible cry was heard behind him, and Bertuccio stammeringly exclaimed: "Oh, sir, it is the wretch, the murderer! Do you not recognize him?" The count bent over the wounded man, and washing the blood from his face he exclaimed in horror: "Really, it is Benedetto!"
She must have been a nursemaid only, for the child was white and ruddy while she was brown and had hair blacker than jet. Upon seeing the curate the tender infant held out its arms, laughed with the laugh that neither causes nor is caused by sorrow, and cried out stammeringly in the midst of a brief silence, "Pa-pa! Papa! Papa!"
As she looked in the glass and saw herself her real self so evidently there, the strange smile, the speech divorced from all volition of hers which had crossed her lips, began to lose reality. Still her lips trembled, and at length a convulsion shook them as irresistible as that of a sob. Words broke stammeringly out which were not hers: "Struggle for life the stronger wins. I'm stronger.
"What can you do? I alone possess the secret which can restore industry and commerce. If you reject my offer, do you think a second one will come?" President Boon found voice to reply, stammeringly: "I did not mean to suggest a rejection of the offer. I only wished to inquire if you thought it probable that there would be no repetition of what occurred after gold was found at the south pole?"
But all the time I knew I should have to. "But I DO care," she wailed plaintively. "I didn't think you'd be so unkind!" This would never do. That little downward tug at either corner of the mouth I knew the symptom only too well! "It's like this," I began stammeringly. "This bit of road here up as far as that corner you know it's a horrid dull bit of road.
He managed to laugh, though with some ruefulness, and continued stammeringly: "I want to tell you how much I like him how much I admire him " "Admire whom?" she asked, a little coldly, for she knew. "Mr. Ladew." "So do I," she answered, looking straight ahead. "That is one reason why I wanted you to come with me to-day." "It isn't only that.
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