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It made a difference to me when I was a young man of about his age. 'You were disappointed? Helena asked, in rather tremulous tone. 'More than that; I think I was deceived. I was ever so much worse off than Hamilton, for there was bitterness in my story, and there can be none in his. But I have survived as you see. 'Is she still living?
Will you remember my name?" "Yes, sir, I think I shall, and your face too," I answered. "You are a sharp chap, I see," he observed, in the same tone as before. "Do you intend to make a sailor of him?" he asked, turning to father. "Not if I can find a better calling for the boy, sir," answered father. "I've heard say, and believe it, that man proposes and God disposes.
It was Henri whose memory was first revived. "Captain, you are my prisoner!" he said, gayly, seizing the stranger by the collar. "What! The Commandant de Prerolles!" cried the elderly man, in a reproachful tone, from which fifteen years had not removed the bitterness. "I know who he is!" said Lenaieff. "Monsieur is your former jailer of the frontier fortress!"
"Then your experience doesn't tally with mine and I know something about the primitive races. Their point of view is generally elusive." "I can credit it." Clarke's tone was sneering. "You people don't try to understand them; you can't come down to it. Standing firm on your colour prejudice and official traditions, you expect the others to agree with you. It's an indefensible policy."
Sweet name for a locality unsavory beyond credence! ... As they emerged on the street level and turned west on Bermondsey Wall, Kirkwood was fain to tug his top-coat over his chest and button it tight, to hide his linen. In a guarded tone he counseled his companion to do likewise; and Calendar, after a moment's blank, uncomprehending stare, acknowledged the wisdom of the advice with a grunt.
Carroll hesitated. "Did he pay you in cash?" "Yeh cash." Again Carroll hesitated for a moment, while he lighted a cigarette. When he spoke again, his tone was merely conversational, almost casual. "You've read the papers all about Mr. Warren's murder, haven't you?" "I'll say I have." "What do you think about it?" Again that startled look in Barker's eyes. Again the nervous twitching of hands.
He will be severely punished, unless we consent to admit him; and to prevail on us to do so, he must empty the contents of his girdle." "That, at least that, at least," answered the soldiers of the city watch, but carefully suppressing their voices, though they spoke in an eager tone. "And is that all that you would make of such an opportunity?" said Harpax, scornfully. "No, no, comrades.
"From him?" she cried furiously, and, raising her voice in a tone of the most intense loathing: "Ask yonder scoundrel himself! Because I needed a guide, I permitted him to take me away from my unloved husband and from the Hydra. Because he would help me to shatter the new and undeserved good fortune which you yes, you do you hear? enjoyed, I remained with him among the Gauls.
"I have purchased enough for you to make a fuss about." "He can't make a fuss about that," said Mrs. Ruck. "Well, you'll see!" declared the young girl with a little sharp laugh. But her father went on, in the same tone: "Have you got it in your pocket? Why don't you put it on why don't you hang it round you?" "I'll hang it round YOU, if you don't look out!" cried Miss Sophy.
I'm quite a serious person. I like to look at the moon. And again Althea blushed. She looked down, sitting straightly in the corner of their sofa and turning her fan slowly between her fingers, and, feeling the sense of gracelessness in this too easy success, Gerald went on in a graver tone.
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