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'I shall send my congratulations to-morrow, said the Earl, smiling triumphantly, 'and a piece of intelligence of my own. At H. B. M. Consul's, Lima what day was it, Louis? Mary ran away to take off her bonnet, as much surprised by the Earl's mirth as if she had seen primroses in December.

The frog-men reached down, swung each a dead dwarf in his arms, and filed, booming triumphantly away. And then I remembered the cone of the Keth which had slipped from Yolara's hand; knew it had been that for which her wild eyes searched. But look as closely as we might, search in every nook and corner as we did, we could not find it.

"Certainly not!" she answered. "He has gobs of money. Is that not a point worthy of consideration?" "Not with me. It never could be." "Perhaps you have gobs of money also." "If I were a scrubwoman, and starving, I wouldn't consider a proposal of marriage from that Jap sufficiently long to reject it." "Then you have answered your own question," he reminded her triumphantly.

Never mind, it's coming off in a few minutes, never to return, and then, perhaps, you'll remember that you've a father." "Fa-a-a-ar!" shrieked William Bannister triumphantly, taking the cue with admirable swiftness. He leaped at Kirk, and Kirk swung him up in the air. It was quite an effort, for William Bannister had grown astonishingly in the past year.

With what seemed a single motion of his hands he unbuckled the revolver belt from his waist and flung it from him. Crouched like a tiger, he moved slowly forward, the flow of his muscles rhythmic and graceful. The prizefighter could scarce believe his luck. He threw out his salient chin and laughed triumphantly. "You damned fool! I've got you at last. I've got you."

Fortunately they decided upon the latter: they surrounded the Stadt House with cries of "Long life to our worthy syndic prosperity to Mynheer Krause," and rushing up-stairs, they caught him in their arms, and carried him triumphantly through the streets, bringing him at last to the smoking ruins of his own house, and there they left him; they had done all they could, they had carried him there in triumph, but, as for building the house up again, that was impossible so, as Mynheer Krause looked with dismay at the wreck of all his property, the loyal mob dispersed, each feeling that he had been a little too hasty in possessing himself of a small share of it.

She breathed out the words into the ears of the man stooping towards her. His great brow lifted he gave a little laugh. Then eagerly, triumphantly, he seized her again by the arms. 'A la bonne heure! Then it is plainer still. You belong to me and I to you. In that statue we live and die together. Another hour, and it will be a masterpiece. Come! one more!

Aunt Lucy came in, wondering a little at such an unusual mark of attention. Mrs. Mudge immediately commenced reading with malicious emphasis a paragraph concerning a certain Paul Prescott, who had been arrested for thieving, and sentenced to the House of Reformation for a term of months. "There," said Mrs. Mudge, triumphantly, "what do you say to your favorite now? Turned out well, hasn't he?

Maybe we'd better forget 'em now, and begin all over again." But, again, he crushed her in his arms, and his voice rose triumphantly: "Sally, I have no promises to take back, and you have made none that I'm ever going to let you take back not while life lasts!" Her laugh was the delicious music of happiness. "I don't want to take them back," she said.

"Read that," he said triumphantly, as he handed me the familiar scrap of blue paper. "Have got safely so far with nurse and baby entreat you to follow with all possible speed dying to get on. CLAIRE, Hôtel Cavour, Milan." "Excellent!" I cried, slapping my thigh. "This settles all doubts. So much for that fool Tiler.