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Updated: May 13, 2025
She was fully dressed, except that instead of her bodice she wore a kimono that left her throat and arms bare. She had been sleeping, and when their entrance awoke her, her blue eyes regarded them uncomprehendingly.
Ditmar halted in his steps at the sight of the tall, spectacled figure of the superintendent on the threshold. Orcutt hesitated, looking from one to the other. "I've been waiting for you," he said, after a moment, "the rest of that lot didn't come in this morning. I've telephoned to the freight agent." Ditmar stared at him uncomprehendingly. Orcutt repeated the information.
He put the end of the banana in his mouth and was just about to take a bite when a savage burst of laughter cut him off. "Looka him!" the vender cried. "Stupid spacer don't even know how to eat a banana! Looka! Looka!" Alan took the fruit out of his mouth unbitten and stared uncomprehendingly at it.
But, angry though he appeared, Herbert Ransome Shaw was taking no chances in this encounter with his undesired guest. Behind him shone the now smug countenance of the blond secretary, and on each side he was flanked by another man. Powerful fellows these two seemed, evidently Italian laborers, gazing at the scene uncomprehendingly, but ready for any work their master set them.
"We have to fear," replied Smith, throwing himself into a corner of the settee, "the Si-Fan!" I continued to stare, uncomprehendingly. "The Si-Fan " "I always knew and you always knew," interrupted Smith in his short, decisive manner, "that Fu-Manchu, genius that he was, remained nevertheless the servant of another or others.
She was close beside him, speaking to him. "Seems to me we've met before." He looked at her, at first uncomprehendingly, then with a dawning realization of her identity. Even her name came to him, unexpectedly, Kate Marcy, the woman in the flat! "Ain't you going to invite me to have some supper?" she whispered eagerly, furtively, as one accustomed to be rebuffed, yet bold in spite of it.
Brown opened the throttle gradually. The outskirts of the town whizzed past them; then the station. The crowd upon the station platform, expecting that this was the passenger train, stared uncomprehendingly as the train thundered in and out of town. They rounded a bend which cut Allatoona off from view; then Andrews motioned to Brown to stop. Tom grabbed the brake and tightened it.
"Nothing could be better," said he. "Keep quiet, and all will be well." "Will you kindly explain?" I asked. "You've had an operation. Also a narrow escape." I smiled at him pityingly. "What is the good of taking all this trouble? Why are you wasting your time?" He looked at me uncomprehendingly for a moment, and then he laughed as the light came to him. "Oh, I understand! Yes.
For an instant Elizabeth stood looking at the words uncomprehendingly; then, with a leaping of the heart, their meaning came home to her. He must have left this at her door on the previous night. The play had been produced! And somewhere in the folded interior of the morning paper at her feet must be the opinion of 'One in Authority' concerning it!
And the first thing he knew, he found both his wrists pinned in the grip of her two hands; found himself staring stupidly into a pair of great blazing blue eyes it's a wrathful color, blue, when you light it up and listening uncomprehendingly to a voice that said, "Don't dare touch me like that!" The episode might have ended right there, for the conductor's consternation was complete.
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