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He turned off sorrowfully to the counter, and a few moments later, getting the attention of the clerk, asked in a low conscience-stricken tone for "The Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man"; conscience-stricken at the sight of the money in his palm to pay for them. "What are you going to do with these?" inquired a Bible student who had joined him at the counter and fingered the books.
Now, who are yer, where do yer come from and what are yer doin' in these parts. Speak quick now, or by " and he broke into a torrent of vile oaths and death-dealing threats, while he fingered nervously the knife that hung in his belt. Before Bert could reply one of the band entered the room. He glanced at the prisoner, and a sudden recognition leaped to his eyes.
But when he saw that the rider did not come directly toward the shack a cold sweat broke out on his forehead and he fingered the rifle nervously. When he saw the rider disappear in the washout, he got a chair from inside and, standing on it, concentrated his gaze at the point where the rider must emerge.
Eva fingered their titles and gave a little gasp. One of them was on gardening. "Well, of all things!" exclaimed Stell. A book on the war, by an Englishman. A detective story of the lurid type that lulls us to sleep. His shoes ranged in a careful row in the closet, with a shoe tree in every one of them. There was something speaking about them. They looked so human.
The Dutchman was sixth, and behind, with a short awkward strength in his gallop, loafed Lauzanne. There was smoothness in the stride of Hanover's big son, The Dutchman; and his trainer, as he watched him swing with strong grace around the first turn, mentally fingered the ten thousand dollars that would shortly be his.
The boat passed abreast of the pirogue so artfully concealed in the pocket of a tiny cove. The intervening distance was no more than a dozen yards. Old Trimble Rogers wistfully fingered the musket and lifted it to squint along the barrel. Never was temptation more sturdily resisted. Then his face, hard as iron and puckered like dried leather, broke into a smile. The idea pleased him immensely.
He did not display his usual jocose manner when he referred to Egypt as a jumping-off place. Vona found a sort of furtive uneasiness in the way he glanced out of the window and fingered his vest-pocket equipment. And he trod to and fro with the air of a man stepping on hot bricks. "But you have said you are doing so well in your new business, father!" Vona's straightforward gaze was disconcerting.
She dropped her hand nervously on the heavy revolver which she wore strapped at her hip, and fingered the gold chasing. Without her gun, ever since early girlhood, she had felt that her toilet was not complete. "It may be," he nodded thoughtfully. "And I appreciate the advice, Kate but what would you have me do?" "Terry," she said eagerly, "you know what this means. You've killed once.
He nodded his head. "It's a madness, this nationality," he said, "but you can't get a cure for it. Even I feel it!" "Quinny!" "Yes, Mary!" There was a nervous note in her voice. She got up, so that she was on her knees, and fingered the lapels of his coat. "Quinny!" she said again, and he waited for her to proceed. "I ... I want us to get married ... soon!
"See, it's a nice tidy little lot of money, ain't it? But it comes in handy; for a feller ain't wed every day of the week." "It air a lot of money," said Higgins, in a contemplative tone. He took up the notes, and fingered them, feeling their texture and looking at the backs. "It air a tidy lot of money," he repeated, and he looked keenly into Will's honest face.
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