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"No, there's no mistake at all, this time," the inspector said quietly, slipping a pair of handcuffs unobstrusively into his pocket as he spoke. "If you come along with me without any unnecessary noise, we won't trouble to iron you. But you'd better say as little as possible about the charget just now, for whatever you say may be used in evidence at the trial against you."
Then followed two quick snorts of alarm; the horses shied simultaneously outward, while down on the ground between them came two souls with but a single thud, two hearts that squelched as one. In spite of the compunction and sympathy I felt, modesty compelled me to glide unobstrusively away, leaving the souls to disentangle themselves and catch their horses the best way they could.
I've got a little belt of sassparilla land in there just tucked away unobstrusively waiting for my little Universal Expectorant to get into shape in my head. And I'll fix that, you know. One of these days I'll have all the nations of the earth expecto " "But Beriah, dear "
"Go up with the crew now." The boy slipped into the crowd that lay around the windlass as unobstrusively as he could. A thick-set, bearded man with a great hairy chest, bare to the yellow sash at his waist, was speaking. "Ay," he said, "a hundred Indians was dead in the town before ever we landed.
I've got a little belt of sassparilla land in there just tucked away unobstrusively waiting for my little Universal Expectorant to get into shape in my head. And I'll fix that, you know. One of these days I'll have all the nations of the earth expecto " "But Beriah, dear "
Grimm impulsively started toward the little group, but already a cordon was being drawn there a cordon of quiet-faced, keen-eyed men, unobstrusively forcing their way through the crowd. There was Johnson, and Hastings, and Blair, and half a dozen others. The room had been struck dumb.
One day one of them stuck an open whisky-bottle under his nose, saying, “Smell it, Bill; ain’t it a fine odor?” Bill stepped back, all smiles, and said quietly, “Well, Tom, drink was my master a long time, but I have a better Master now.” He went on his way unobstrusively but steadily, and finally won the respect and confidence of all. At last the end came; Old Bill was dead.
"She's dead, you know," broke in Peter hastily, lest Urquhart should make a mistake embarrassing to himself. "A long time ago," he added, again anxious to save embarrassment. "Yes oh yes." Urquhart, from his manner, might or might not have known. "I live with my uncle," Peter further told him, thus delicately and unobstrusively supplying the information that Mr. Margerison too was dead.
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