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A relative of Smith's was at the hotel and had heard the boy was at our house. Would we please tell him to come right down? Petey said he would and then rang off. Then he grabbed the 'phone again and asked Central excitedly why she had cut him off. Central said she hadn't, but of course she rang the other line again. "Hello!" said Petey blandly. "This is the Alfalfa Delt house?"
She has retired from polite society altogether." Migwan smiled blandly at her, but made no answer. At home that night, however, she felt very low-spirited indeed. She was only human, after all, and wanted dreadfully to go to the matinee with the girls. Gladys would take them all to Schiller's afterward for a parfait and bring them home in style in her machine.
Joyce was so dumbfounded by this rebuff that she could only hide her confusion by displaying an exaggerated activity in the capture of the hen. Her husband, however, said blandly, "Och, don't make yourself onaisy, man. Loan or no loan, you needn't be under any apperhinsion we'll be comin' after her wid a basket. Divil a much. Stir yourself, Kitty, and be clappin' her in under the lid.
He did not come that day either, and Ethelberta began to look pale with fear. 'Why don't you go out? said Picotee timidly. 'I can hardly tell: I have been expecting some one. 'When she comes I must run up to mother at once, must I not? said clever Picotee. 'It is not a lady, said Ethelberta blandly. She came then and stood by Picotee, and looked musingly out of the window.
"Wide open," corroborated Mr. Silk. "So I just came in to say ''Ow d'ye do?" said Mr. Kybird. Mrs. Silk's sharp, white face turned from one to the other. "Ave you said it?" she inquired, blandly. "I 'ave," said Mr. Kybird, restraining Mr. Silk's evident intention of hot speech by a warning glance; "and now I'll just toddle off 'ome." "I'll go a bit o' the way with you," said Edward Silk.
Robin boiled over fairly at this. "Good God, man!" he exclaimed, "do you accept this theory of suicide as blandly as all that? Have you examined the body? Don't you use your eyes? I tell you ... bah, what's the use? I'm not here to do your work for you!..." "No, sir," said the detective, quite unruffled, "you are not. And I think I'll continue to see about it myself!"
"'Any individual who introduces a Parisian Alpine climbing suit into camp must pay the penalty by being made to climb a mountain in it." "Now, you know that's not on the list. You're making it up," exclaimed Nancy, blushing. "'The tail feather of a pheasant is not recommended as trimming for a camp hat," he went on blandly.
"When I hire a man I expect him to pay his own expenses and send me the bill." "Quite so," agreed the other blandly. "But, you see, you aren't hiring me. I'm doing this on spec. And I don't propose to invest anything in a dubious proposition, myself. It isn't too late to call it off, you know." "No, I do' wanta do that," said the other with contorted face.
It was certainly not the custom for a hostess, and a Princess to boot, to dance like a wild bacchante before a crowd of her invited guests, yet, as Dr. Dean blandly observed, "Where was the harm?
To do him justice the idea had never occurred to him in the light of a temptation, and when a neighbour had once remarked in his hearing that he "reckoned Jack would rather lose a dollar than walk a mile to fetch it," he had answered blandly, and without embarrassment, that "a mile was a goodish stretch on a sandy road."
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