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'Yes, he replied, quite colourlessly. 'I'm awf'lly sorry you aren't coming round to the flat. You aren't very faithful to your fwiends. 'Not very, he said. She nodded them both 'Good-night', and went back slowly to her own set. Gudrun watched her curious walk, stiff and jerking at the loins. They heard her level, toneless voice distinctly.
You sit there just saying "Thanks," and "Bai Jawve, thanks awf'lly," while a girl's telling you nice things about your eyes and hair, and you don't do a thing! Rutherford threw back his head and roared with laughter. 'I'm sorry! he said. 'Slowness is our national failing, you know. 'I believe you. 'Tell me about yourself. You know all about me, by now.
She was standing sideways, with her head turned to look at her brother, now disappearing round a bend in the lane, and Henry was able to observe her more closely. He saw that she was wearing a short frock, reaching to her knees, and he plucked up heart. "She's only a kid," he said to himself, and then said aloud to her, "It's awf'lly nice here!"
"Something awf'lly queer, what?" he commented when reporting it to his superior. "Rather," the superior replied laconically. "It can't be the Dresden and neither is it one of ours. We'll skip over and have a look at her, Reggie, my son." Michael J. Murphy had two shots left in his automatic, and he was saving those for daylight and Mr.
MacDermott's son!... He had watched the train haul itself out of the station and had waved his hat to his mother until she was no longer distinguishable, and then he had turned to Eleanor with a curiously determined look in his eye. "Are you going to marry me?" he demanded. "Yes," she said, "I think I will. I like your mother awf'lly, John!..." "It's me you're going to marry. Not her.
'I bet you were. You looked like it. Well, who is she? 'Eh! Oh, that's a girl. Peggy laughed satirically. 'Thanks awf'lly, as you would say. I've got eyes, George. 'I noticed that, said Rutherford, smiling. 'Charming ones, too. 'Gee! What would she say if she heard you talking like that! She came a step nearer, looking up at him. Their eyes met.
"I'll have the horses saddled right away," said Dick, and left them. "Where you going, Be'trice? You going to ride a horse? I want to, awf'lly." "I'm afraid you can't, honey; it's too far." Beatrice pushed a yellow curl away from his eyes with tender, womanly solicitude. "Auntie won't care, 'cause I'm a bother. Auntie says she's goin' to send for Parks. I don't want Parks; 'sides, Parks is sick.
'Oh, only tonight. Are you coming over to speak to Julius? 'Not tonight. 'Oh very well. I'll tell him then. Then came her touch of diablerie. 'You're looking awf'lly fit. 'Yes I feel it. Gerald was quite calm and easy, a spark of satiric amusement in his eye. 'Are you having a good time? This was a direct blow for Gudrun, spoken in a level, toneless voice of callous ease.
"Because I love you, Mary...." "But ... did you mean to marry me or did you just ... sort of ... not thinking, I mean!... Oh, it's awf'lly hard to say what's in my mind, but I want to know whether you love me really and truly, Quinny, or only just asked me to marry you impulsively ... when you weren't thinking?" "I came here loving you, Mary.
Graham quite naturally, and said, "Won't you come to the beach, too, Mrs. Graham?" Instantly Ninian and Mary were clamorous that she should go with them, and so she consented.... "We'll have to hurry," said Mary, "because the boats come in awf'lly quick." "My dear, I can't run," Mrs. Graham said.
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