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He laughed at their effect upon him, but unmirthfully. And his next murmur was 'The devil! A mere ejaculation, betokening his state of mind. He reached several times for his pipe, and remembered when he had touched it that the lips with which he greeted Nancy ought not to be redolent of tobacco. In outward respect, at all events, he would not fall short.

Then you were expected to fall in love; now we deal in snares more subtle." Maurice laughed, but somewhat unmirthfully. There was to him something bewildering and worldly about his cousin; and he had come to feel that he could never be at all sure where in the end the most harmless beginning of talk might lead him. "What then is the modern way of temptation?" he inquired.

He spoke with a slight and not unmusical accent. He lowered his hand again. The gaze of those brilliant eyes remained fixed upon the woman's face. Moistening her lips, Mrs. Irvin spoke. "Dreams! What I have to say does not belong to dreams, but to reality!" She laughed unmirthfully. "You know well enough why I am here." She paused. "Why are you here?" "You know! You know!"

"Doubtless the attempted burglary alarmed you?" I suggested, intending to sooth her fears. "Burglary?" She smiled unmirthfully. "It was no burglary." "Why do you say so, Miss Beverley?" "Do you think I don't know why Mr. Harley is here?" she challenged. "Oh, believe me, I know I know. I, too, saw the bat's wing nailed to the door, Mr. Knox.

Oh, yes, she's like her father in more'n one way, both awful ambitious and terrible fond of making money. Why," she added naïvely, "I've seen Pearl look at a bank note like I never saw her look at a love letter." "Well, she won't make much money up in those mountains, not dancing, anyway," he laughed briefly and unmirthfully. "It surprised me a lot, her going," admitted Mrs.

For I was with him when he died; and they cannot know how much I know. How did he die? How did he die? How was the Flower of Silence introduced into his closely guarded room?" "The Flower of Silence?" Smith laughed shortly and unmirthfully.

Thereupon, having his eyes fixed upon me with the strangest expression in their gray depths, Nayland Smith said a singular thing. "Pronounce, slowly, the words Sâkya Mûni," he directed. I stared at him, scarce crediting my senses; but "I mean it!" he rapped. "Do as I tell you." "Sâkya Mûni," I said, in ever increasing wonder. Smith laughed unmirthfully.

At arm's length he held the picture for Cochran to see, and laughed bitterly and unmirthfully as he had heard leading men laugh in problem plays. "That is what she wrote," he mocked "but how long did it last? Until she saw that little red-headed Albany playing polo. That lasted until his mother heard of it.

You are romancing." "Not a bit, sir. When I went to my room I er 'eard 'im." "Is there a wooden partition between No. 18 and your room?" "Yes, sir." "And cracks large ones?" "Yes, sir. But why you should oh, I see! Excuse me, sir; I thought I 'eard a bell." The waiter hurried off, and Brett unwound himself. "So Robert is in love with Margaret," he said, laughing unmirthfully.

If so, they will certainly be inhabited. I am surprised this one is not." He ended abruptly. They were losing time. Before Iris could join him he was already hauling a large undamaged case out of the water. He laughed unmirthfully. "Champagne!" he said, "A good brand, too!" This man was certainly an enigma. Iris wrinkled her pretty forehead in the effort to place him in a fitting category.