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My husband had recently died. I have been very lucky in my life you are an example." "I?" exclaimed Bobby. "Yes, you. Did you not arrive on the scene just when I wanted you, at the Gare du Nord?" "Oh yes, I see what you mean. Of course, of course; thanks awfully for saying that."
"We are too busy here to get out very much ourselves, but we do like company 'awfully bad, as Peace used to say. I hope you come soon. The children will be ready for Cecile Saturday when she gets here. Good-bye, I am sorry you must go so soon. Come again, Cecile." The girls were gone, and Gail went back to her wash-tubs in a daze.
She simply flew to the mirror, but, as you know, it is away so high up she couldn't see, so she made frantic efforts with her hands, and just got it to cover the bald, in a rakish, one-sided way, when the whole lot streamed into the room. Lord Valmond looked awfully uncomfortable. Goodness knows what he had said to them to keep them back!
People like Mother Gill and old Binns and Prester Ma: and then what one's going to do when one's grown up you never want to know that." "No, it'll just come I suppose. Of course, I shan't be clever like the governor." "No, I don't think you will." Once again: "Do you mind my being so stupid, Peter?" "No I'm awfully stupid too. But I like to wonder about things.
You may have noticed her the one with a dark-purple dress and a little purple cap. She's a school-teacher, and she will spend the rest of the summer with her sister in Pennsylvania. "That man Phil Matlack, who is going with us to-morrow, is quite a character, and I expect I shall like him awfully.
He played chess you don't know what that meant to me like a master. We used to talk about the regeneration of Turkey and the Sheik-ul-Islam between moves. Oh, everything under the sun we talked about! He was awfully open-minded. He believed in slavery, of course, but he quite saw that it would have to die out.
He led me aside, he lowered his voice, he addressed me gently: "You stuck again, didn't you, Clara? Too bad! too bad! and of course you apprehend trouble with Daly? I'm awfully sorry. Ten dollars is such a haul on one week's salary. But see here, I've got an idea that will help you out, if you care to listen to it."
"Awfully good of you, old bean," he said. "I wonder if you'd mind telling my jolly old father-in-law that? It'll be a bit of news for him!" Archie Moffam's connection with that devastatingly popular ballad, "Mother's Knee," was one to which he always looked back later with a certain pride. "Mother's Knee," it will be remembered, went through the world like a pestilence.
Always announcing some plan for us to bore each other, don't you know, and never having it come off." "This is the place and the hour, Reggie," declared Mr. Courtney. "If you'll just stay here I'll send you out a brandy and soda and some cigars." "Thanks awfully, old man," returned Reggie, looking dubiously out at the loggia.
She quietly awaited the response to her appeal to his deeper nature which she felt certain would be forthcoming. Presently it came. "It is awfully good of you, Miss Champion, to take the trouble to think all this and to say it to me. May I prove my gratitude by explaining for once where my difficulty lies? I have scarcely defined it to myself, and yet I believe I can express it to you."
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