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I'd like to have one of those blamed things to wearr for a souveneerr." Tom Slade had stood silent throughout this harangue, and now he laughed a little awkwardly.
One or two riding masters cantered up and down as of yore, with their attendant broods of anxious-faced young girls and awkwardly bumping women pupils, while horsey-looking men put marketable animals through their paces or drew up to the rails for long conversations with horsey-looking friends on foot.
Sancho sat at the open window, watching the old cat wash her face, and trying to imitate her with his great ruffled paw, so awkwardly that Ben laughed; and Sanch, to hide his confusion at being caught, made one bound from chair to bed, and licked his master's face so energetically that the boy dived under the bedclothes to escape from the rough tongue.
Standing there, she saw the tableau in her own mind, and it looked strange. She was afraid of herself. She knew that she would do something foolish if she did not win this battle. She felt that overpowering fanaticism back within her raging restlessly. If she was not careful "But what is it you want?" asked her husband. "I don't want you to go out tonight." He laughed awkwardly. "Nonsense, girl!
For an instant they both felt a deep constraint, and as he was getting out of his coat each wondered if the other had noticed it. Ayling turned about and stumbled awkwardly over a small hassock on the floor, and they both laughed, which helped them recover themselves. "How long has it really been?" she asked, as she faced him beside the fire. "Twenty-five years."
They were distant, both aggrieved; Emmy with labouring breath and a sense of bitter animosity, Jenny with the curled lip of one triumphant who does not need her triumph and would abandon it at the first move of forgiveness. They could not speak. The work was done, and Emmy was rinsing the washing basin, before Jenny could bring herself to say awkwardly what she had in her mind. "Em," she began.
He had perceived her, and was evidently pursuing her, but so awkwardly and timidly that she eluded him with ease. When she had reached the security of the hollow tree and pulled the curtain of bark before the narrow opening, with her eye to the interstices, she waited his coming.
The landlord of the inn was a true Boniface; he had nothing of the Frenchman but his civility to the ladies. In assisting Mrs. Younge from the carriage, he contrived it so awkwardly that he fell on his back, and pulled the lady upon him; the matter, however, was a mere trifle to a Frenchwoman, and had no other effect but to raise her colour.
For your help the other night especially; I want to thank you for that." "It was nothing," I answered, awkwardly. "Nothing! You are not very complimentary, Mr. Paine." "I mean that is, I " "You may consider rescuing shipwrecked young ladies, afloat and ashore, nothing perhaps you do it so often that it is of little consequence to you; but I am not so modest.
Horn's, in the absence of any other admirer, they based a superstition of his interest in her; when Beaton came, Mela returned the pinch, but awkwardly, so that it hurt, and then Christine involuntarily struck her.
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