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Updated: June 24, 2025
"What cheerlessness!" exclaimed Adrienne under her breath. Grouped about the door, Norma rang the bell. A tired-eyed, middle-aged woman answered it. Yes, Miss Marsh was in, she declared listlessly. A clear, pleasant voice from above stairs affirmed that information.
Becoming violently thirsty, he sought permission to carry it to the spring for refilling, and his heart leaped hopefully when the tired-eyed teacher indifferently nodded her assent. He meant to carry the pail to the spring. He even meant to fill it for the sake of technical obedience. Later, some one else could go out and fetch it back.
Didn't you find him?" asked Vipont, who had joined the group of tired-eyed subalterns. "After the column left camp about an hour and a half, I should say he asked Sutton to let him try and overtake the battalion. Said he didn't want to swing the lead with a mere scratch on his shin-bone. So he mounted and rode off. That's the last I saw of him." "How long before the Huns attacked?" asked Danvers.
I know that I shall get old Bashti by the scruff of the neck and sit him down while I pump law and square-dealing into him. Of course . . . " The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.
It did not even startle him when Pyott himself held out a cold-fingered hand. "Good business!" was his chief's sardonic commendation. "Then I've made good?" asked the weary youth, without enthusiasm. "You've made your TEN-STRIKE!" was the answer. "You're on the city staff at twenty dollars a week." "When do I have to go over my proofs?" asked the tired-eyed and innocent youth. "What proofs?"
She transfixed the slight, tired-eyed young woman with a look that would have chilled any one else to the bone—the high-bred look that never fails to put the lowly in their places. "Indeed," she said, with infinite irony in her voice. "This is Miss Carnahan, I believe?" She lifted her lorgnon as a further aid to inspection.
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