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"He has been walking his legs off after you," began Clifford, but Braith cut him short with a brusque "Where were you, Rex?" Gethryn winced. "I'd rather I think" he began, slowly "Excuse me it's not my business," growled Braith, throwing himself into a seat and beginning to rub Mrs Gummidge the wrong way.
He was therefore well pleased when at last the landlord bustled up in his brusque way and said: "Mr. Van Berg, permit me to make you acquainted with Miss Burton.
He, for his part, was fast drifting from friendship to another feeling, but as yet he gave no sign of it, and kept up the brusque, kindly manners of his common life. As she looked east and north to the heart of the hill-land, her eyes brightened, and she rose up and strained on tiptoe to scan the farthest horizon.
"I was thinking about critical and important things." "'Critical and important' sounds large," she returned. "And the awakening was sudden," he continued. "You must make allowance, please, for " "For the brusque appearance of a very unimaginative, substantial, and undreamlike person? I do.
Miss Haldin glanced at the watch on her wrist and made a brusque movement. She had already overstayed her time, it seemed. "I don't like to be away from mother," she murmured, shaking her head. "It is not that she is very ill now. But somehow when I am not with her I am more uneasy than ever." Mrs. Haldin had not made the slightest allusion to her son for the last week or more.
Harper also had high standards, and influenced by the formalities of the day, edited Susan's vivid brusque letters hurriedly written and punctuated with dashes so that they conformed with her own easy but more formal style. To this Susan readily consented, for she always depreciated her own writing ability.
Creighton's manner became a shade less brusque as he took the hand Ricky held out to him. "I might have known that no professional could get that look," he said. "Then this isn't your place?" Mr. Holmes said to Charity after he had greeted the Ralestones. "Mine? Goodness no! I rent the old overseer's house. Pirate's Haven is Ralestone property." "Pirate's Haven."
Simon seemed to have recovered his equanimity during this speech. He shook his head emphatically, but his voice was as dispassionately brusque as ever. "London detective? Much over-rated people, I assure you. No use in a case of this kind." "The very kind of case a real copper-bottomed expert would be some use in!" "You are thinking of detectives in stories, Mr. Cromarty.
Boïeldieu took the brusque criticism meekly and preferred a request for further instruction from Cherubini a proof of modesty and good sense quite remarkable in one who had attained recognition as a favorite with the musical public.
With brusque directness, Madden caught the shock of tawny hair, jammed Caradoc's chin against the buoy and held him tight with little exertion for himself. Smith swung out as awkwardly as a turkey on a chopping block. The water was level with his lips, but his nose did not go under. "Petered at last," grunted Madden, staring at the corpselike face in dull speculation.
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