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Say, Kate," he changed his attitude as lightly as he did his subject uncrossed his legs, squared himself in his chair and threw his elbows on the table. She met the new disposition with a tone of prudent reserve: "What is it?" "When are you going to do something for a lonesome old scout?" he asked bluntly.
Mrs. Pennington had recourse to her handkerchief. Uncle Bob uncrossed his knees and sat bolt upright. "Madame," he exclaimed, "I am sorry for your distress, whatever its cause, but let me assure you, you are under some grave mistake. My niece has met no one clandestinely, and is incapable of deceit and treachery." "Do I understand then that it was with your connivance?"
They were written in good English modified by a few peculiar terms used in senses unsuspected by dictionary-makers; in a beautiful hand, with the t's uncrossed, but crowned with the side-stroke, so as to avoid the appearance of the symbol of Christianity, and with the dates expressed according to the Hebrew Calendar, for Karlkammer refused to recognize the chronology of the Christian.
"Men mean enough to sell liquor are mean enough to do anything. And not only those who actually sell the stuff are to blame in a case like this, but those who encourage the sale of it." Mr. Cross Moore uncrossed his long legs and crossed them slowly the other way. He always had a humorous twinkle in his shrewd gray eye. He had it now.
You seem to imagine your contract doesn't bind you." Pat slowly uncrossed his knees and stared at the speaker with a countenance of bewilderment. "Now what in the world is the man talking about! Contract? The only contract I had with Bryant was an oral agreement to build the dam and move dirt at a certain day rate per man and per team, terminable at his option.
Hilliard had uncrossed his legs, and sat bending forward, his eyes on vacancy. "Does that alter your opinion of me?" asked the other. "I sha'n't believe it till I have cashed the cheque." "You're one of those young fellows who think so much of themselves they've no good opinion to spare for anyone else.
He started like a somnambulist awakened suddenly, and there was now some meaning in his stare; a sort of alarmed speculation. He opened his mouth slowly. Flora struck in with forced gaiety. "You would never guess." He waited, still more startled and suspicious. "Guess! Why don't you tell me?" He uncrossed his arms and leaned forward towards her. She got hold of one of his hands.
A bleak table-land with here and there a stunted, leafless tree was all that we could discern by the pale light of a new moon. An apparently interminable heath uncrossed by path or foot-track was before us, and our jaded cattle seemed to feel the dreary uncertainty of the prospect as sensitively as ourselves, stumbling and over-reaching at every step.
I'll give you an uncrossed check, and then you can get it at the bank here, quite close by.... You'd better not have all the money on you; you had better open a small account in the post-office and draw it out a fiver at a time. That won't involve references, as a bank account would and all that sort of thing. The money will last longer, and it won't bother you."
And directly she had told him that she felt less afraid. "What are you afraid of?" "I'm afraid of you." "Of me?" "Of what you may think of me, feel towards me, if I tell you." "Then you do care what I feel?" "I care very much. I care terribly." Sir Seymour uncrossed his legs and made a slight movement as if he were going to get up.
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