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Walking slowly with lowered head as she left the arbor, she almost ran into Bouchard, who apologized with the single word "Pardon!" as he lifted his cap in overdone courtesy, which his stolid brevity made the more conspicuous. "Miss Galland, you seem lost in abstraction," he said in sudden loquacity. "I am almost on the point of accusing you of being a poet." "Accusing!" she replied.
My father slammed his book shut. I had never seen such a look on his face. "How old are you, Mary?" he demanded suddenly. I told him that I was going on fifteen. "And you never saw a table napkin?" His tone was bitter and accusing. I did n't understand how could I? Father began to talk, his words growing more and more bitter. Mother defended herself hotly.
She had had justice on her side when she rebuked her mother for accusing her of flirtations. But could such a man as Lord Rufford with his hands so free, venture to tell himself that such tokens of affection with such a girl would mean nothing? If she might contrive to meet him again of course they would be repeated; and then he should be forced to say that they did mean something.
She thought that she had lowered the light at leaving; she had certainly intended to do so. Very softly Piers opened the door. It swung noiselessly back upon its hinges, and the full light smote upon them. In the same instant a slim, white figure came calmly forward through the hall and stopped beneath the lamp. Olive Lorimer, pale, severe, with fixed, accusing eyes, stood confronting them. "Mrs.
He turned his face away and leaned against the heavy chimney-piece, longing to shut out the sound of her sobs from his ears, submitting to a torture that might well have expiated a greater misdeed than his. The time was past when he could feel that an unbroken chain of evidence had justified him in doubting and accusing Corona.
He halted lamely, but his meaning was plain enough. Caleb faced about abruptly, his face sternly accusing. "Do you mean to hint that you ever dared believe we didn't want " and there Sarah stopped him with an capable nod of her head. "We didn't get that letter, Steve," he finished. "If we only had we we would have been less lonely waiting, too." Steve sat and stared down at his heavy boots.
It seemed as though she had scarce spoken the encouragement she wished to give him. It had been a meeting almost without words; but she felt strangely satisfied. The accusing revelation that had come from Crane in the afternoon had been a crushing blow. It was a mistake, of course; it wasn't true somehow it wasn't true, but still it had stunned.
The matter was argued quickly and hotly, Gridley accusing, Fordham hotly denying. "Can't you Gridley fellows play with anything but your mouths?" snarled Captain Barnes. "We play a straight game," retorted Dick coldly. "We play like gentlemen." "Do you mean that we're not?" demanded Barnes swaggeringly. "So far you've played like a lot of sluggers." "See here!
It supplies testimony to his strong personality that, whilst more or less damaging himself, he succeeded on more than one occasion in seriously compromising his political friends and the House itself. In the whirlwind that followed it was forgotten that it was Mr. When in May, 1887, the Times published an article accusing Mr.
Créqui immediately left the city, accusing the Pope of instigating the outrage. Louis XIV. demanded reparation, and the most humble apology. The proud Pope was not disposed to yield to his insolent demands.
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