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They spoke very apologetically in low tones, refusing to sit down, but remaining for a considerable time standing up, although the only thing they had to say was, "Is there anything we can do?" and there was nothing they could do. Feeling oddly detached from it all, Terence remembered how Helen had said that whenever anything happened to you this was how people behaved.
I must have left it on the grass." "I believe Rosalind seldom loses an opportunity to speak to people. Miss Herbert says she is on quite intimate terms with Morgan," remarked Miss Genevieve. "Father told me about Morgan," Rosalind began apologetically, adding more confidently, "I like to know people." "Your father over again," Mrs. Whittredge said, smiling. "What is your book, dear?"
At the gate where they turned into the Park an arch of evergreens had been erected. "You don't mean to say you let them know that I was coming home?" Cyril said, in a tone of such alarm that Lord Oliphant laughed and Mr. Popham said apologetically, "I certainly wrote to the tenants, sir, when I received your letter, and sent off a message saying that you would be here this morning.
Reuben rose heavily. 'Gie me pen and ink, Davy, an let me go. The young man brought it him without a word. Reuben put in the address. 'Ha yo read it, Davy? David started. In his absorption he had forgotten to read it. 'I wor forced to write it i' the top sheepfold, Reuben began to explain apologetically, then stopped suddenly.
"Guess I'll take another whack at her," he concluded, starting to cross the stream. "They ain't no sense in it, I know," he mumbled apologetically. "But keepin' grub back an hour ain't goin' to hurt none, I reckon." A few feet back from his first line of test-pans he started a second line. The sun dropped down the western sky, the shadows lengthened, but the man worked on.
A shiver of suppressed excitement went through the listeners, and Lady Blemley might be excused for pouring out the saucerful of milk rather unsteadily. "I'm afraid I've spilt a good deal of it," she said apologetically. "After all, it's not my Axminster," was Tobermory's rejoinder.
Why did you stay away so long?" The reproach cut deeper than she knew. "I thought I was acting for the best," said the young man, half defiantly, half apologetically. "I did what it was the desire of his heart that I should do But you, you were at home; you saw it all, and you should have told me, Lettice." "I did try," she answered meekly, "but it was not very easy to make you listen."
Caldecott has just been illustrating in the same charming manner Goldsmith's "Elegy on a Mad Dog," and I'm very sorry but I never laughed at that before, either. I have pretended to laugh, you know, she added, hastily and apologetically, 'hundreds of times. 'I don't doubt it, I replied; 'this is not such a free country as your father supposes. 'But am I right?
Jacky found him reading a little book in search of comfort, and when they were out in the air Jacky saw that his eyes were rather red. "Why you cry?" said Jacky. "I very angry because you cry." "It is very foolish of me," said George, apologetically, "but three is a small company, and we in such trouble; I thought I had made a friend of him.
Do you think a chap would be such a silly ass as to want to come in specially to carve his name during play-hours, when he's got the whole of his school-time to do it in?" "I had not thought of that," I said apologetically.
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