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Bumble nodded, blandly, in acknowledgment of Mrs. Mann's curtsey; and inquired how the children were. 'Bless their dear little hearts! said Mrs. Mann with emotion, 'they're as well as can be, the dears! Of course, except the two that died last week. And little Dick. 'Isn't that boy no better? inquired Mr. Bumble. Mrs. Mann shook her head.

I need not give you any more trouble, except by asking you, if possible, to get me some hot water and soap, and to invite the inspector to favour me with his company. The men nearly dropped Merton, but, finding his feet, he stood up and smiled blandly. 'Pray make no apologies, he said. 'It is rather I who ought to apologise. 'He's no drucken, and he's no Scotch, remarked one of the policemen.

"There is no person on earth whose advice I value more highly than yours, Lady Gridborough," said Reggie, as blandly as before; "and in most matters, I should accept it and follow it without hesitation; but, in this matter of my friend, Mr. Sydney Green " "Mr. Sydney what?" broke in the old lady, evidently much agitated.

I shall simply make a new and larger gold-fish globe, outside of this one. And then I go out and make faces at der Fighting Force of der United Nations imprisoned between der two of them and then der Com-Pub fleet comes ofer!" He stood up and put his hand on a door-knob. "Is it not pretty?" he asked blandly. "In two weeks der air fleet will begin to starfe.

"Oh, very well," said Mr. Withers, blandly. "It is for you to say whom you want with you. As I say, all that can be arranged to suit yourself." He bowed and backed toward the door. "At four, then, we may expect you?" "Yes," said Carrie. "I will be there to show you," and so Mr. Withers withdrew. After rehearsal Carrie informed Lola.

You know he would not give up leading a dissipated life, squandering money, making debts, going to our tailors and ordering suits in our names! Can you guarantee that this will be his last prank? As far as I am concerned, I have no faith whatever in his reforming!" The official of the Treasury muttered something in reply; after him Ivan Markovitch began talking blandly and suavely again.

And Ah Sing will smile blandly and duck his pig-tailed, shaven head, and wish each member "good morning" back again. It is sometimes very funny to hear the matin chorus of a dozen people crying out their volley of salute to ceremony; and to hear again the Chinaman's conscientious reply to each in turn down the long table "Good mo'ning, Mr. White; good mo'ning, Mis' White; good mo'ning, Mr.

He lit a fresh cigarette, put his hands in his pockets, and smiled at me blandly. For all that, I ventured to point out that the habit of alighting in the fork of a tree, or the disengaging of one's self from the saddle on the ground, was attended with inconvenience, and even ostentatious display. But Enriquez swept the objections away with a single gesture.

There was not a horse standing down by a pool, with his stiff legs shut up into biped form, nor a cow staring blandly across an old rail, nor a sheep with a pectoral cough behind a hedge, nor a rabbit making rustle at the eyebrow of his hole, nor even a moot, that might either be a man or hold a man inside it, whom or which those active fellows did not circumvent and poke into.

In fact, I'm just about the only publisher in London who would be likely to deal with it. Henry kept silence. 'Eh? demanded Mr. Onions Winter, still perusing the Shaksperean forehead. 'Cash down. Will you take it? 'No, I won't, thank you, said Henry. 'Then what will you take? 'I'll take a hundred. 'My dear young man! Mr. Onions Winter turned suddenly to reason blandly with Henry.