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"And is it decorous in episode, cheerful in tone, and forcible in moral tendency?" "All these it is, and more." "Then please, sir, I have a question to ask." "Ask, maiden," said Dick. "I want to know why you keep that filthy cloth in your pocket." "And why this sudden curiosity about a trifle?" His hand felt the thing as if he had forgotten it.
The silence grew deeper; the tension was so great that when somewhere a man dropped a shovel, it startled the watchers like a sudden bomb. It was plain that Trevison's men wanted to fight. It was equally plain that Trevison was arguing to dissuade them.
At last, as if he had formed a sudden resolution, he began to drink so greedily that the woman, surprised by his abnormal appetite, leaned over him and exclaimed, with a laugh; "Ah! the scamp, what a mischievous trick! it's his thumb he's sucking instead of the goat." He had thought of that expedient, the angel, to induce them to leave him in peace.
Selwood paused there, and a sudden silence fell to be as suddenly broken by a sharp question from Barthorpe. "The Witnesses?" he said. "The witnesses!" Selwood glanced at the further paragraph which he had not thought it necessary to read. "Oh, yes!" he said. "It's witnessed all right." And he went on reading.
The cause of this sudden movement was not long concealed; a brace of sharks rose in their very midst; one was visible but for a moment as he rolled over to seize his prey; the other, less successful in securing a victim, shot past us, like an arrow, in pursuit of a large division of the fugitives. Soon after, both of them were seen playing around the boat.
The sudden and apparently unaccountable variation in temperature recorded by Lussac is a striking revelation to an aerial observer, and becomes yet more marked when more sensitive instruments are used than those which were taken up on the occasion just related. It will be recorded in a future chapter how more suitable instruments came in course of time to be devised.
"Thou art not one of the Sisters of Penitence that thou must needs deny thyself the good things of life." Magda looked up with a sudden flash of interest. "The Sisters of Penitence, Virginie? Who are they? Tell me about them." Virginie set a plate containing an epicurean omelet triumphantly in front of her. "Eat that, then, cherie, while I tell thee of them," she replied with masterly diplomacy.
An important means of inhibiting disturbance from any arteriosclerosis which should be employed when possible is the climate treatment. Warm, equable climates, in which there are no sudden radical changes, are advantageous when coronary sclerosis is suspected, and warm climates are valuable in promoting the peripheral circulation and lowering the blood pressure in arteriosclerosis.
Charley asked. "I know nothing about your customs or laws, for I've been in Ballarat only two hours, and yet I've fought a duel and eaten supper, work enough for one man," Fred said. "I forgive you," cried Charley, seizing our hands and shaking them in a sudden burst of friendship. "Say no more I forgive you."
Why, above it, should he say silly, meaningless words, that were like a bridge thrown over it to lead him from her? "I want to tell you one thing, just one, before I go," he said. He knew that, with his sudden resolution, his voice had changed and, to quiet himself, he stood before her and put both hands on the back of a chair that was between them. He couldn't go on building that bridge.
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