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Her lips seemed to aim uncertainly for his face. Did they just touch, with exquisite contact, his bristly chin, or was it a divine illusion? ... She blushed in a very marked manner. He blinked, and his happy blinking seemed to say: "Only wills drawn by me are genuine.... Didn't I tell you Mr. Moze was not a man of business?" Audrey ran to Miss Ingate. Mr.
It was my first experience with the California climate, and these things were a perpetual wonder to my New England mind. Then one day when I was camp keeper, at the upper end of our long meadow, a number of men emerged from the willows and hesitated uncertainly.
"I guess it won't do," he said rather uncertainly as Galton laid a sheet down. Galton was worn out himself and harried by his nerves. "No, it won't," he said; and then as he saw Tembarom move to the other foot he added, "Not as it is." Tembarom braced himself and cleared his throat. "If," he ventured " well, you've been mighty easy on me, Mr Galton and this is a big chance for a fellow like me.
"I'll go see Mr. Tomwit," he said, and started uncertainly for the door. The cashier's falsetto stopped him: "No use, Peter. Mr. Tomwit surprised me, too, but no use talking about it. I didn't like to see such an important thing as the education of our colored people held up, myself. I've been thinking about it." "Especially when I had made a fair square trade," put in Peter, warmly.
The light of one or two swinging lamps that had not yet been shattered revealed dimly the surroundings, the dark leather upholstering, the little tables. Uncertainly the convict paused; then suddenly his eyes brightened; the lustful anticipation of the drunkard who had long been denied shone from his gaze as it rested on a sideboard across the cabin. "Bottles!" he said, steadying himself. "Rum!
'I, therefore, says the Apostle, 'so run not as uncertainly. If the runner is now heading that way and now this, making all manner of loops upon his path, of course he will be left hopelessly in the rear. It is the old fable of the Grecian mythology transplanted into Christian soil. The runner who turned aside to pick up the golden apple was disappointed of his hopes of the radiant fair.
But they're waiting for Sheriff Kern to come over from Woodville an' nab you in the morning. They's some that says that they won't wait, if it looks like the law is going to take too long to hang you. They'll get up a necktie party and break the jail and do their own hanging. I heard all them things and more, Jig." John Gaspar looked uncertainly from one to the other of his friends.
A knock at the door arrested her. "Don't move!" she said, peremptorily, before she ran to open the door. "Please, my lady," said Blanche, "Lady Tranmore would like to see you." Kitty started and flushed. She looked round uncertainly at Ashe. "Ask her ladyship to come up," said Ashe, quietly. The maid departed. "Feed me if you want to, Kitty," said Ashe, still seated.
"Was she? 'The passengers got up two dances, and quite a number of gentlemen invited me, but I declined with thanks, though I would not say it is wrong in itself." Lindsay seemed to waver; her glance went near enough to him to show her that his face had a red tinge of embarrassment. He looked at the letter uncertainly, on the point of folding it up.
The brown man passed on around the corner, out of the faint warmth of the sunshine and away from the empty and endless arguments which his coming had provoked among the negroes. The futile ending of his first adventure surprised Peter. He walked uncertainly up the business street of the village, hardly knowing where to turn next.
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