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"I thought from the question about Vancouver that you wanted to put us into an awkward position in order to find out whether we were friends." "No," said Joe, with a little laugh, "I am not so clever as that. It was pure silliness chaff, you know that sort of thing." "Oh," ejaculated John, still quite unmoved, "then it was not of any importance."
Abbie was evidently troubled about him. Perhaps he was rough and awkward; school-boys often were, even those born in a city. Very much of Ralph's life had been spent away from home, she knew; and she had often heard that boys away from home influences grew rude and coarse oftentimes. Yes, that was undoubtedly it. Shy, too, he was of course; he was of about the age to be that.
When she had finished, she almost broke the cup, which she caught again by an awkward movement of her elbow. "Have you hurt your arm badly?" Hubertine asked. "Do not be afraid, my dear, but show it to me."
To my surprise it was answered from behind me. Frank had followed my trail. He had killed a nanny and was carrying the head. Everybody had goats! Then we tied the goat to the little trees, and set to work. I held Frank while he skinned; and then he held me while I skinned. It was very awkward. The tiny landscape almost directly beneath us was blue with the atmosphere of distance.
After an awkward pause, she thrust her head out of the window again, and had another conference with the driver upon some point on which they did not seem to agree quite so readily as on their former topic of discussion; but they concluded at last, and she addressed the grandfather again.
"She had a hemorrhage, you say?" She did not wait for an answer, but went up the steps ahead of me, and envy filled me as I followed her into the room where she was to find her patient. Professionally Miss White was one person, socially another. Off duty she was slow and shy and consciously awkward. In the sick-room she was transformed.
I was just considering whether I ought to report him, when he fell at my feet, and implored me to keep it secret; for he had been very unfortunate in life, and if I spoke he would be ruined. "Thinking that he had been simply awkward, I allowed myself to be moved, and swore to Crochard that the matter should remain between us.
The connection was perhaps illogical, but it was unpleasant. It was the more awkward from the fact that he fancied that not only Rupert's beautiful eyes, but even the infant Johnny's round ones, were fixed upon him with an embarrassed expression of hesitating and foreboding sympathy.
"I don't see much use in talking about my qualities, sir." "You don't see," Cartwright agreed. "That's your drawback! You see nothing that's rude and human; you're afraid to look. All that's obvious is, Barbara must not come home to throw an awkward reflection on Grace's Puritanical virtue. People might find out something and talk?
So she took dry pine needles, ground them up, and mixed them in by hand. The only large bowl' they possessed -a curving palette of stone -held only a small amount compared to the number and size of the cracks she must fill, and it was heavy and awkward. Then the mortar itself seemed not to want to stay where it was put.
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