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Bates, on the contrary, said little on the subject, except to a few very intimate friends, and to those who made free to ask her about it, to whom she said, after giving fairly the cause of complaint against Mrs. Tarleton "I spoke to her coldly because I wished our more intimate acquaintance to cease.
"Oh, Janey!" cried Ursula, whose feelings were touched; then she remembered that her sympathies ought not to flow in the same channel with those of Mrs. Sam Hurst, and continued coldly, "If she had not liked them she need not have come to see them." "That is all you know, you girls.
I object to Tallente being placed at the head of the party." "And why?" Dartrey asked coldly.
"Oh, no!" she said impatiently, "no of course not." "Pray, why?" "There are other things to reckon with." She looked coldly beyond him out of the window. "A man's intelligence when he is in love how far can one count on it?" There was nothing but silence for that or perhaps the murmured "Oh, I don't agree," with which Lindsay met it. He rode down her logic with a simple appeal.
They went first to Mrs. Jellison's, to whom Marcella wished to unfold her workshop scheme. "Don't let me keep you," she said to Wharton coldly, as they neared the cottage; "I know you have to catch your train." Wharton consulted his watch. He had to be at a local station some two miles off within an hour. "Oh! I have time," he said. "Do take me in, Miss Boyce.
Her look met his almost coldly as she spoke. "But when he is well again, how shall you live?" "I shall work for him, if it turns out that he has no friends. We shall soon know, for his memory will come back after the operation. The doctors say so. They know." "And if he has friends after all? If he is really the man I think he is, what then? What will become of you?" "I do not know. I am his.
"I came across the professor unexpectedly," Tavernake answered, coldly. "What do you want with me, please? I am on my way home." Pritchard laughed softly to himself. "Say, there's something about you Britishers I can't help admiring!" he declared. "You are downright, aren't you?" "I suppose you think we are too clumsy to be anything else," Tavernake replied. "This is my 'bus coming. Good-night!"
But there was something in his aspect that struck Bernardo’s heart deep with dread. "God help me!" he exclaimed, "is that sightless and corpse-like figure the noble Count of Saldaña, my father?" "You wished to see him," coldly answered the king. "He is before you. Go and greet him." Bernardo did so, and reverently took the cold hand of his father to kiss it.
"I saw some one fall, but couldn't stop the machine. I supposed the highway was for vehicles, not pedestrians four abreast." "Miss Savell, you have just missed running over Miss Allison," said Miriam coldly. "Had it not been for Miss Harlowe, there would have been a serious accident. I should advise you to drive more carefully in future, or you may not escape so easily another time."
I am very much obliged to you, Miss Garston, for offering to nurse Gladys, but there was no need of all this explanation; you might have known, I think, that I was not likely to refuse. He spoke coldly, and his face looked dark and inflexible, but I could see he was watching me.
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