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They like to torment, vengeance gives them pleasure. But later Egorka's mother took pity on him; she thought she had flogged him too hard. And now she walked up quietly to him. Egorka lay on the bench and moaned softly, then he grew silent. His mother smoothed his back awkwardly with her rough hands and left him. She thought he had gone to sleep. In the morning she went to wake him.
Even now Sylvia did not mention Madame Wachner. "Of course, I don't think you a hypocrite," she said awkwardly, "but you never did like poor Anna, and you were always telling me that Lacville isn't a place where a nice woman ought to stay long. I thought you might have said something of the same kind to Madame Wolsky."
"No, I I didn't ring," he stammered awkwardly. "The truth is, I didn't know you were here, Mrs. Bunting. Please excuse my costume. My gas-stove has gone wrong, or, rather, that shilling-in-the-slot arrangement has done so. So I came down to see if you had a gas-stove. I am going to ask you to allow me to use it to-night for an important experiment I wish to make." Mrs.
'How have you got on without that collection of Councils? He smiled a little awkwardly. It was one of the books Robert had sent back. Robert flushed. He did not want the Squire to regard him as wholly dependent on Murewell. 'I bought it, he said, rather shortly. 'I have ruined myself in books lately, and the London Library too supplies me really wonderfully well.
Mitchington laughed a little awkwardly. "Oh, well, come, now, doctor!" he said. "Why, yes frankly, I'm inclined to Jettison's theory in fact, I'm certain that's the truth." "And your theory," inquired Ransford, turning to the detective, "is put it in a few words." "My theory and I'll lay anything it's the correct one! is this," replied Jettison. "Brake came to Wrychester with his secret.
It was in a sort of dream that Kew watched Anonyma go forward and take both the hands of the mother. I suppose he knew that all that was superfluous, and that Murray would come home. Anonyma said, "I am so sorry. I am so sorry that we intruded. You must forgive us." The mother of Murray did not hear, but she saw that sympathy was intended, and she nodded awkwardly, and a little severely.
Man, ordinarily a pendant to events, only half attached, and that awkwardly, to the world he lives in, in these examples appears to share the life of things, and to be an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun, numbers and quantities.
Perhaps he had noticed the weariness in Nasmyth's voice or the hollowness of his cheeks. "All right," he said awkwardly. "Jake will put you up grub for four days, and we'll call it square." He counted out the money, which Nasmyth slipped into the receptacle inside his belt. When the logger moved away the weary man crossed over to his bunk.
The two Englishmen; yielded to this very awkwardly and with great reluctance; but the Spaniards protested, they did it only to keep them from bloodshed, and to make all easy at last; "For," said they, "we are not so many of us; here is room enough for us all, and it is great pity we should not be all good friends."
Farrar and I introduced ourselves, awkwardly enough, and we both tried to explain at once how it was that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Cooke was there to meet her. Of course we made an absolute failure of it. She scanned our faces with a puzzled expression for a while and then broke into a laugh. "I think I understand," she said; "they are having the house-warming."
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