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You do me justice, however, by supposing that I should be the last person to laugh when you are in woe, unless I thought unless I was sure that I could remove the cause, and make you completely happy." "That, I fear, is impossible," said Emilie: "for mamma's pride and her feelings have been so much hurt, that I do not think any apology would now calm her mind." "Apology!
"How are you this morning?" he said at last this morning as distinguished from all other mornings. "I'm well, as usual," she answered. She herself was sometimes surprised by her ability to remain outwardly calm. "Why did you run away from me last night?" "I didn't run away, I had to go home," she said, still arranging the letters. "We could have had a little walk.
But I'm not going to pay. Take that flat." Jacobsen shrugged his shoulders in calm acquiescence to fate, and Griffiths stepped to the companionway and went below. Jacobsen watched the canoe across the low reef as it came abreast and passed on to the entrance of the passage. Griffiths, with ink-marks on right thumb and forefinger, returned on deck Fifteen minutes later the canoe came alongside.
"Where's my security?" bellowed Courtney in Johnny's ear, so vociferously that all the grandstand turned in that direction and three park policemen headed for the riot. "Just come outside and I'll tell you," whispered Johnny with a grin. "Ashley, how do you like your car?" asked Polly in the groaning calm which followed Sweeney's infamous strike-out.
When children can read for themselves, they will take from their stories what suits their stage of development, their standard of judgement, and we need not interfere, even though they regard with perfect calm what seems gruesome to the adult.
With a mighty effort she stilled the violent throbbings of her heart, forced an unnatural calm upon her face and whispered "Let him come now; I am ready." He was standing without the door, so near that he heard the words, and in a moment he was at her side.
He took her in his arms and hugged her, repeating: "Good-morning, mamma," while the old man, all a-tremble, said, in his calm tone which he never lost: "Here you are, back again, Jean," as if he had just seen him a month ago. When they had got to know one another again, the parents wished to take their boy out in the neighborhood, and show him.
Straight out to sea Jerry headed the craft, and the weather was so pleasant, the water so calm, and the sense of swift motion so enthralling, that, before they knew it, they had gone several miles. "Oh!" suddenly exclaimed Rose, as she came from the small cabin, and glanced back toward the shore, "I can't see anything." "It is a bit hazy," admitted Ned.
At the same time, I observed, around both of them, splashes of dark blood upon the planks, and began to feel sure that they had killed each other in their drunken wrath. While I was thus looking and wondering, in a calm moment, when the ship was still, Israel Hands turned partly round, and, with a low moan, writhed himself back to the position in which I had seen him first.
"Even if they are generals in the great fight with disease and death," said Frank gravely. "I wish I could feel as sure of our ultimate success as I do of your being perfectly calm and self-contained in all you do." "I should be, my dear boy," said the doctor, "if I could only get rid of the feeling that I shall be an impostor." Frank laughed pleasantly.
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