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It was no secret: was ever such a thing secret in the shire of Argyll? We all knew it. She was Mary's friend and companion; she would come to our house here on a Saturday; I see her plainly on that chair at the window." The General turned with a gasp, following his brother's glance. "I wish to God you would not be so terribly precise," was what he said. And then he fingered at his glass anew.
He fingered the five-pound note in his pocket and stood at the corner of a street hesitating; then, with a little gesture of determination, he walked on again quickly in the direction of Sloane Square, reached it, and turning into one of the streets leading from it he entered one of the tall buildings of expensive flats.
I'll come back with you to-morrow." "Let me send for Dr. Dawney, Uncle?" "No no! Plenty of him when I get home. Very good young fellow, as doctors go, but I can't stand his puddin's slops and puddin's, and all that trumpery medicine on the top. Send me Dominique, my dear I'll put myself to rights a bit!" He fingered his unshaven cheek, and clutched the gown together on his chest.
Engle thinks that if he buys the black horse and wins a good race with him first time out it may pull the wool over Pettigrew's eyes. He says Eliphaz is a cinch in the Handicap next Saturday." Old Man Curry fingered his beard for some time in silence. "Blast the luck!" said he suddenly. "Why didn't I know Miles was arepresentin' Al Engle?" "You'd have said three thousand, eh?"
His grasp closed over the letter, he fingered its thickness and weight and calculated the number of sheets it must contain. Suddenly he felt the pressure of the hand on his shoulder, and became aware that the face was still leaning over him, and that in a moment he would have to look up and kiss it... He bent forward first and threw the unopened letter into the middle of the fire.
In new countries it would bother you to have old associations certainly; and you have had your Rob Roy, I grant you, and the old country has had her Robin Hood. But has not Jamaica had her Three fingered Jack? Ay, a more gentlemanlike scoundrel than either of the former. When did jack refuse a piece of yam, and a cordial from his horn, to the wayworn man, white or black?
"You are a fleeching, flattering laddie," she answered; but she stroked and fingered the gay kerchief, while Christina made her observe how bright were the colours of it, and how neatly the soft folds fell around her. Then the door of the inner room opened, and Andrew came sleepily out.
Whose were the teeth?" Kennedy fingered the now set impressions, then resumed: "Before I answer that question, what else does the spectroscope show? I found some spots near the coffin, which has been broken open by a heavy object. It had slipped and had injured the body of Montague Phelps. From the injury some drops had oozed. My spectroscope tells me that that, too, is blood.
In his pocket was an eight-ounce bottle, containing a meagre sixpenn'orth of brandy for Shepherd Toller. Snarley fingered the bottle, and then, with quick resolution, withdrew his hand. "For the life o' me," he said, "I couldn't remember where I was. I felt as though the hillside were whirlin' round, carryin' me with it. And then I felt as though I were sinkin' into the ground.
Then Anna laughed and fingered her pearl necklace as though she were embarrassed by his scrutiny. "No, of course not what an absurd question. Fancy flowers at a drawing-room meeting. I am going to put them in a vase directly. Now, as mother is engaged just now, I am going to take you to the schoolroom, and nurse will give us something to eat."
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