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He was merely astonished and a trifle fascinated by the passion and appeal in Michael's face as he spoke. "Gosh!" he said in a tone almost of admiration. "Gosh! Is that wot edicashun done fer you?" "Perhaps," said Michael pleasantly, "though I rather think, Sam, that I always felt a bit that way, I just didn't know how to say it." "Wal, you allus was queer!" muttered Sam half apologetically.
The shoulders came to her elbows nearly, and the cuffs beyond her finger-tips, while the collars refused to come anywhere near her neck! It was most disappointing. "She is very narrow, and thin for her height," remarked the girl, apologetically, as one after the other the coats hung off Huldah's shoulders like loose sacks. "I wonder if you wouldn't find a cloak more satisfactory for her.
He wondered if, by some chance, she knew people there, if she was going to pin him down to persons and definite places in Fleming County. "No, indeed," he answered. "You see, I haven't been there all the time." "I never was very good at geography," she began apologetically. "Where is Fleming County?" "Oh, it is in the southern part of the state," he said.
'You see I am a newcomer and have no friends here, he continued apologetically, 'and I did not imagine that you knew my address. After passing through a narrow passage, Greif found himself in a large room with three windows.
"How dare you insult Willie's friend and and mine! You've no right to speak so about Mr. Morton." Before her indignation Janoah quailed. In all his life he had never before seen Delight Hathaway angry, and something in her flashing eyes and flaming cheeks startled him. "I I warn't meanin' to say 'twas actually so," mumbled he apologetically.
We entered so quietly that the doctor, bending over his desk, did not hear us, and we had to cough apologetically to apprise him of our presence. "David Malcolm, sir a new freshman," Boller said. The doctor rose. I saw a little man with a very large head covered with hair which shot in all directions in scholarly abandon.
Mr. Batchgrew eyed the affrighted creatures with satisfaction, appearing to take a perverse pleasure in thus imposing upon them the horrid incubus. "I was only thinking of burglars;" said Mrs. Maldon apologetically. "There've been so many burglaries lately " She ceased, uncertain of her voice. The forced lightness of her tone was almost tragic. "There won't be any more," said Mr.
Virginia, afraid that she was the cause of this little domestic storm, said apologetically: "I'm sorry you quarrelled. Don't blame him too much, though. Things are rather hard for him." "For him?" echoed Fanny in surprise. "What about you?" "Oh, I'll manage," replied her sister quietly. "He had no right to lose that job," said Fanny angrily. "He'll soon find another," said Virginia encouragingly.
Sewell, assisted by one of the fair sex in the first bloom of her eightieth year, serving breakfast for me on a small table in the bar-room! "I overslept myself this morning," I remarked apologetically, "and I see that I am putting you to some trouble. In future, if you will have me called, I will take my meals at the usual table de hôte." "At the what?" said Mr. Sewell.
Sweet and short, like this toothful of cherry brandy I'm after drinking!" "Ah, that's poor stuff, Doctor," said Mr. Hallinan, proprietor of Hallinan's Hotel, a prosperous hostelry, much patronised by salmon-fishers. "Give me a sup of good old John Jameson in its purity!" "'Twas for Tishy I brought this out," replied the Doctor, apologetically; "but I lost sight of her.
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