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"They fooled me too, Lockley," he said wryly. "But it's all right. They had to. They thought you were fooled. Those three men in the box with you the other day, they said you were fooled, too. And they're sharp secret service men!" "You're very convincing, aren't you?" he raged. "But " "You believe," said Sattell, "I've joined up with spies and traitors. You believe...."
I'd done with love it's the thing I've cut out of my plan of life these ten years." His mouth twisted wryly as if even yet the memory of the past had power to stab him. "I distrusted love. And I distrusted you." He stopped abruptly, still conveying that impression of a man forcibly holding himself in check. "And and now?" Ann's voice was almost inaudible.
One of his people nearly knocked me out of the air this morning, over a parking area, and I confiscated his identification. I tried to give it to Harwood after the conference, but he must have been in a hurry. I caught up with him and gave him the folder." "So I heard." The director smiled wryly. "Anything more?" "No, sir." Morely saluted and left.
But are you sure he didn't come from Germany on his latest trip in January of last year?" Schwinn smiled a little wryly. "He might have," he said in the same low tone. "He's a personal friend of Rudolf Hess " "Listen!" Schwinn exclaimed. "You're on the wrong track!" "Maybe; but what's his business here?" "He's a businessman!" "What's his business?" Schwinn shrugged his shoulders.
We shall have him then. And there will be no more killings of studs here." At dusk Running Fox slipped down to the camp, but not far enough into the circle of firelight to be sighted by any watcher in the night. Then with Drew and Anse he was off again. Within less than a quarter-hour Drew could have laughed wryly at his past satisfaction in his prowess as a scout.
Of the samples which the skin-test said were non-poisonous, one was acrid and astringent, and two others had no taste except that of greenness practically the taste of any leaf one might chew. "I suppose," said Cochrane wryly, as they headed back toward the ash-clearing at nightfall, "we've got to find out if the animals can be eaten." Babs nodded matter-of-factly. "Yes.
"Promise me a clerkly writing to the Bird Daughter's men, or to your own men, ordering that I be paid ten English pounds, and it is done." "With pleasure," smiled Brian wryly. "Also, if I escape, I will spare your life one day, Red Murrough." "Good. Then play your part." And Murrough departed well pleased with his acumen. And indeed, the man carried out his bargain more than faithfully.
Here he was, less than a full day on the job, dreaming how he could ruin his employer, shake the foundation of human civilization, and force ten thousand billion humans to change their comfortable habit patterns and their belief in the unchangeable sameness of men. He was, he reflected wryly, an incurable romantic. "Wake up, Doctor, it's six A.M." A pleasant voice cut through Kennon's slumber.
Sometimes he would have a vivid flash of jealousy when he thought about her and Tommy Ashe, when he recalled her admissions. And he would soften from that mood, twisting his lips wryly, when he remembered the pitying tenderness of her good-by.
The trail had apparently taught Firio all the moods of his master. He knew when it was unwise to persist. "Sí!" he whispered, and withdrew. Jack looked at Galeria and then back quickly, as if resisting its call. He smiled half wryly and readjusted his position in the chair. Over the hedge he could see the heads and shoulders of passers-by.
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