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Seeing me, however, she stopped on the landing of the stains, and beckoned me to approach. "Corny," she said, "what have you been doing, my child, to have drawn this honour upon you?" "Honour! I am ignorant of having even received any. What can you mean, my dear aunt?" "Here is Herman Mordaunt waiting to see you, in the drawing-room.
With Herman he was a ferret driving out of their hiding-places every evil instinct that lay dormant. Under his goading, Herman was becoming savage, sullen, and potentially violent. He was confused, too. Rudolph's arguments always confused him. He was confused that night, heavy with fatigue and with Rudolph's steady talk in his ear.
Jason Newcome to journey in their public conveyance, I must return to our own party. All of us men, with the exception of those who drove the two wagons of Herman Mordaunt, marched a-foot. Each of us carried a knapsack, in addition to his rifle and ammunition; and, it will be imagined, that our day's work was not a very long one.
Removing the wet cloths from her bas-relief, she stood for a moment studying it, and then investing herself in a great apron, set busily to work upon one of the fleeting figures in the composition. She had scarcely begun when as often before a heavy step was heard upon the stair without, a tap sounded lightly upon her door, and, in answer to her invitation, Grant Herman entered.
What is more remarkable is that the monk was distinguished for nothing but his piety, and had never made any pretension to learning or accomplishment." Much to the surprise of Herman, his friend, though deeply moved by that beautiful effusion of Catholic piety, seemed not to give the entire attention which it so eminently deserved. "Listen!" he said, repeating the lines.
He laughed a bit unpleasantly, a row of white teeth visible beneath the dark mustache. "It's just as I thought, Herman," he said genially. "The fellow is a mere adventurer. There will be no one to take his disappearance seriously. Look at this document."
Garrick had scarcely begun to outline what he intended to do when I could see from the commissioner's face that he was very sceptical of success. "Herman tells me," he objected, "that the place is mighty well barricaded.
On her back are fastened wings, and man, puny man, is aiming, by attaching wings to himself, to overcome her a subtle suggestion of airships. The Signs of the Zodiac Herman A. MacNeil, Sculptor One of the loveliest gems of beauty in the Court of the Universe is Herman A. MacNeil's cameo frieze of gliding figures.
Our first-class cabin passengers were three, Reginald K. Whinney, scientific man, world wanderer, data-demon and a devil when roused; Herman Swank, bohemian, artist, and vagabond, forever in search of new sensations, and myself, Walter E. Traprock, of Derby, Connecticut, editor, war correspondent, and author, jack-of-all-trades, mostly literary and none lucrative. Our object?
The pose was that met with in the backs of magazines the head lifted, eyes fixed on an interesting object unseen, one arm crooked to hold a cane, one foot advanced, the other trailing slightly to give a Fifth Avenue four o'clock air. His face was expressionless. On his head was a sadly unironed silk hat. Von Herman glanced at the drawing tacked to the board of one of the men.
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