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Sometimes he took his son with him, as if by chance. He sometimes attempted a little timid tenderness with his wife; and this awkwardness, on his part, was quite touching. "Marie," he said to her one day, "you, who are a fairy, wave your wand over Reuilly and make of it an island in mid-ocean."
A moment of silence followed, which I, having a guilty conscience, felt awkward. But my father never allowed awkwardness to accumulate. "I had hoped to have been able to call upon you long ago, Miss Clare, but there was some difficulty in finding out where you lived." "You are no longer surprised at that difficulty, I presume," she returned with a smile.
There is no doubt that a little awkwardness is to be overcome in the beginning, for no one knows exactly what to do.
With a nurse for each, their convalescence could have been no more agreeable in the midst of civilization. And as Barry gained strength, yet before Jerry Rolfe was allowed in to worry him about the ship, he found himself and Natalie, Little and Mrs. Goring, pairing off in their slow rambles, and once more awkwardness of speech descended upon him like a wet blanket.
But the felicity in which she had arrived was so proof against everything that Maisie felt more and more the depth of the purpose that must underlie it. She had a vague sense of its being abysmal, the spirit with which Mrs. Beale carried off the awkwardness, in the white and gold salon, of such a want of breath and of welcome. Mrs. Wix was more breathless than ever; the embarrassment of Mrs.
Now she tried timidly to drift the conversation from the awkwardness into which Harley's suggestion of a reward and his opponent's curt retort had blundered it. "I hope you did not find upon your return that your business was disarranged so much as you feared it might be by your absence." "I found my affairs in very good condition," Ridgway smiled.
Beppo, recovering from his charge, wheeled in time to catch a glimpse of his quarry after whom he made with all the awkwardness that was his birthright and with the speed of a race horse. Columbus Blackie, casting a terrified glance rearward, saw his Nemesis flashing toward him, and dodged around a large tree.
So that Edwin was not distressed either by the deficiencies of amateur acting or by the exhibition of another's self-conscious awkwardness. Nevertheless when his father took the pen to write he was obliged to look studiously at the window and inaudibly hum an air. Had he not done so, that threatening sob might have burst its way out of him.
This king's son, Henry the Second, read some years before the event a description of that tournament, on the marriage of the Scottish Queen with his eldest son, Francis II., which proved fatal to himself, through the awkwardness of the Compte de Montgomery and his own obstinacy.
"Guess I will be going back," he said in an agony of awkwardness and confusion. "It is getting kind of late." "What? Going right away?" exclaimed Mandy. "I've got some chores to look after, and I guess none of you are coming back now anyway." "Well, hold on a bit," said the doctor. "We'll see what's doing inside. Let's get the lie of things." "Guess you don't need me any more," continued Smith.
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