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"I beg your pardon," Mr. Stott apologized with elaborate sarcasm, "but when I am wrong I like to be told of it." Which was not the strict truth for the reason that no one ever was able to convince him that he ever was mistaken. As a result of the discussion everyone was afraid to use the word for fear of offending one or the other.
"Exhausting. Got some good shots of the boundary waters area, though. And my parents' anniversary what a scene." "Alcohol consumed?" "Lord! It was touching, really, my folks and their old friends toasting each other and their fallen comrades." "Ah," Joe said. "What's new with you?" she asked. "Oh, you know rejection and solitude." Alison's face flashed before him; he apologized silently.
I dislike to tell you this, Miss Sheldon, but since you have asked me this question I can only tell you the truth." "I am sorry I spoke so hastily, Miss Harlowe," apologized Miss Sheldon, "but I was greatly displeased. I have sent for Miss Ward. Will you wait until she comes? You need not unless you wish to do so."
The old men, hearing this, perceived that they had been fooled, and they at once stopped fighting and apologized to each other. "The raccoon's rascally trick made Nanahboozhoo very angry. Indeed he had had a good deal of trouble to keep from letting the raccoon know who he was. So just as soon as the raccoon had finished he said: "'I am Nanahboozhoo.
What a write-up all this would make for his paper. "Did you hear what I said?" Weston's voice was somewhat impatient. "I beg your pardon," Reynolds apologized. "My mind was wool-gathering. You asked what led me to suspect the truth about Curly, did you not?" "I did." "Well, apart from yourself, and what I saw in you, there were four things which influenced my judgment.
It was startling to see a desolate expression of shame veil the remorseless audacity in the eyes of that man superior to all scruples and terrors. "I would never have dared to bring him on board your balancelle," he once apologized to me. "But what am I to do? His mother is dead, and my brother has gone into the bush." In this way I learned that our Dominic had a brother.
Occasionally, after these encounters, Jimmy would come upon Sir Thomas Blunt's valet, the other man in whom Spike's trained eye had discerned the distinguishing trait of the detective. He was usually somewhere round the corner at these moments, and, when collided with, apologized with great politeness.
However, as he forgot himself so far as to give vent to his passion in my presence, I got up and retired to my chamber. Presently he came in, gracefully apologized for his violence, did not explain the cause of it, however, but requested me to give orders for the packing of our trunks and be ready to leave for New York in one hour." "Did he give you no reason for his sudden movement?"
"I beg your pardon," he apologized; "but Rosa said you were in here sewing, and I told her not to bother. I'd announce myself. Just as I got to the door I chanced to hear Billy's speech, and I couldn't resist making the amendment. Maybe you've forgotten Kate's love of managing but I haven't," he finished, as he sauntered over to the chair nearest Marie.
"But it was for mamma's sake, you know; while she was so ill it was better not to have it talked about," apologized Lady Linton; but she mentally resolved that she should be in no hurry to tell the secret, even if he had ordered her to do so, at least until she was sure her brother would find his wife.
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