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The girls stood stockstill. They looked a bit shy at first, but he soon helped them over their momentary embarrassment. Then it was "good-day" and "our kind Emperor." It was plain they were really glad to see him again. These little misses were not like Katrina and the rest of the Ashdales folk.
Carley was weighing the import of these words when suddenly Flo clutched her arm. "What's that?" she whispered, tensely. Carley stood stockstill. They had reached the furthermost end of that aisle, but had turned to go back. The flare of the camp fire threw a wan light into the shadows before them. There came a rustling in the brush, a snapping of twigs.
The marchers no longer fired at the airships overhead; they moved their feet slowly, hopelessly, stood stockstill for hours or faltered aimlessly. Occasional improvised white flags could be seen, held apathetically up toward the balloonists. Long after their brave start the crazed and starving survivors began trickling into the American lines where they surrendered.
Hal and Chester each felt himself seized by the shoulder by a strong hand, and a voice exclaimed: "So! I have found you young scalawags at last!" At the sound of this voice Hal and Chester stood stockstill, and from the crowd came the cry of: "The police!" Hal glanced quickly into the face of the man who held him and his chum firmly by the arm.
"You might have let him take the girl," said Katrina. "I'm afraid you'll fall with her!" "What, I let him have my child? What are you thinking of, woman! Didn't you see who he was?" "What harm would there have been in letting her ride with the superintendent of the ironworks?" Jan Anderson of Ruffluck stood stockstill.
I said: "Helena thinks my figure is better than my face. But do I really walk well? Nobody ever told me that." She answered: "Philip Dunboyne thinks so. He said to me, 'I resist the temptation because I might be wanting in respect if I gave way to it. But I should like to follow her when she goes out merely for the pleasure of seeing her walk." I stood stockstill. I said nothing.
Both little chalked shoes stood stockstill for a second only then she came forward, leisurely, continuing to eat the ripe guava with which she had been occupied. Cardross, advancing, said: "This is Mr. Hamil, dearest; and," to the young man: "My daughter Shiela." She nodded politely. "Now I've got to go, Shiela," continued Cardross.
I stood stockstill and stared at her; I couldn't imagine what she was doing there. 'I'm looking round to see if there are any steep hills hereabout, she then said. 'Dear heart! are you thinking of casting yourself from a cliff? I gasped, for she looked as if she was tired of life. "'Yes, she said.
A breath of warm, scented air was wafted to his nostrils. Vezin caught his breath for an instant and paused, stockstill, half leaning against the wall and then almost ran down the remaining distance and entered his room with a rush, locking the door hurriedly behind him. Yet it was not fear that made him run: it was excitement, pleasurable excitement.
Filled with the new fire, the new courage, he clutched his hat from the chair on which he had thrown it and rushed forth into the night. At the top of the steps he met Prince Ugo. The two men stopped stockstill, within a yard of each other, and neither spoke for the longest of minutes. "You call rather late, prince," said Phil, a double meaning in his words. "Dog!" hissed the prince.
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