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The door shut behind the girl, and the two occupants of the room looked at one another in silence. Miss Carr's expression was self-conscious and apologetic; Mr Bertrand's twitching with humorous enjoyment. "Too bad, Helen, too bad! I can't have my poor little lass snubbed like that!" "My dear Austin, it will do her all the good in the world. What a little Miss Consequence!
Her home, her sisters, came into her mind; she stammered, then laughed again with a lump in her throat. Those tears again! She mustn't be so stupid... There was a sharp rap at the door, more businesslike than the last. "Who in hell is that?" Roger burst out in irritable annoyance. It proved to be the valet, obsequious and apologetic, yet full of importance.
"He didn't mind a bit," she said, leaning forward and speaking earnestly. "He said another evening would do just as well for him." "I daresay he did," replied Delia, coldly. "And, you see, it was a cricket match at Holmbury," Anna continued, in an apologetic voice; "such a lovely place! and the Palmers offered to drive me, and another day wouldn't have done for that, and Aunt Sarah thought "
For a moment Cardo was speechless with astonishment, but not for long, for, in answer to Valmai's apologetic, "Oh! Cardo, it's me; it's only me, whatever!" she was folded in his arms, and pressed so close to his heart that her breath came and went in a gasp half of fright and half of delight. "Gracious heavens! What does it mean?" he said, holding her at arms' length. "My own little wild sea-bird!
I'm afraid I oughtn't to have done it, anyway." Her tone changed, and became almost apologetic. She stirred uneasily in her deck chair, and looked about half dazedly, as people look about a room that is new to them, on waking there for the first time. "Why, it's grown dark!" she exclaimed. This fact surprised Stephen equally. "So it has," he said.
Jack certainly did not like this cavalier treatment, but found it rather a bore pottering about the yard, "looking at the beastly ducks;" but Acton was so profusely apologetic when he did come out that Jack generally smoothed his ruffled plumes and pedalled home at peace with himself and all the world.
"Quite so," I complained, rather brashly, I suppose, "but why didn't he save a little money when he had it? He made as much as you'll ever make." The man had been a star. "He had plenty of it, didn't he? Why should he come to you?" "Well, you know how it is, Thee," he explained in the kindliest and most apologetic way. "When you're young and healthy like that you don't think.
I'm afraid " glancing at her face "that I swore at him, but he deserved it for butting in like that, and he couldn't understand what I said." His tone was slightly, very slightly, apologetic. "I don't think that's the point, is it?" asked the girl, in a very cool voice. She was experiencing her first shock of disappointment in him, and felt unhappy; but she only appeared critical.
Now just look over that list and check off what you can let me have, will you? I'm going to stay awhile, and so I will have to get in a few provisions." Mr. Prout ran his eye down the list dubiously, checking now and then. When he laid it down and pushed it across the counter his tone was apologetic. "Ain't a great deal there I can sell you, Mr. Herrick. I'm kind of out of some things.
"The book 's a love story," said the youngest one, an apologetic note perceptible in her voice, "but it's a pretty story, and the treatment's interesting, and I thought you might enjoy it, for railroad travelling always makes one feel sentimental, anyway." "Oh, the train 's moving! Good-bye, dear!" The one who was nearest to Dr.
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