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It was very well to try to say he didn't care that she might break ground when she would, might never break it at all if she wouldn't, and that he had no confession whatever to wait upon her with: he breathed from day to day an air that damnably required clearing, and there were moments when he quite ached to precipitate that process.
I've been wondering, seeing that I have talked to you of so much, if I ever talked to you of that. On the whole, I don't think that I ever have. Cultivate your memory, Mr. Mocket. Mine is a damnably poor one. And so," ended Tom, "he rode away and left me staring. I don't know whether his head is turned or not, but he looked strong enough for anything and all a Cary.
"I can't help your being so damnably disagreeable to women," said Grandcourt, in soothing apology. "To one woman, if you please." "It makes no difference since she is the one in question." "I suppose I am not to be turned adrift after fifteen years without some provision." "You must have saved something out of me." "Deuced little. I have often saved something for you."
I forgot to mention that we're nickel steel, with a coal capacity of sixty tons in most damnably placed bunkers, and that thirty and a quarter knots is about our top. Care to come aboard?" But the voice was speaking still more rapidly and feverishly, as if to fill a silence with no matter what, and the shape that was uttering it was straining forward anxiously over the rail. "Ugh!
The scent of fried fish and decaying bits of kosher meat, and hallways as damnably rotten of floor as they were profitable to New York's nicest circles. The tall gloom of six-story tenements that made a prison wall of dulled yellow, bristling with bedding-piled fire-escapes and the curious heads of frowzy women.
Yes, it was a mere matter of time. Sooner or later she would put a leading question her methods being bravely candid and direct. Of course, it was open to him to meet that question with blank denial, open to him to lie as is the practice of the world when such damnably awkward situations come along.
"I did not think you would push me so far," she said thoughtfully. "It is to your interest not to interfere. You are mad, Charlotte. But you never lose sight of the dirty dollar in your madness." "That is for Ted's sake," quietly. "I dislike that girl. She's so damnably clean! She's of the sort that would walk straight on and trample me under foot like a slug if she knew what I was.
"But why doesn't it improve?" said Barthrop. "You always say that the public finds out what it wants, and will have it." "In books, yes!" said Father Payne; "but in daily life we are all so damnably afraid of the truth that's what is the matter with us, and it is that which journalism caters for.
"But I am afraid that after you have heard me out as a friend you will take action as my superior officer." The attentive colonel snapped his jaws. "Well, what of that?" he said, frankly. "Is it so damnably disgraceful?" "It is not," negatived Lieut. D'Hubert, in a faint but firm voice. "Of course, I shall act for the good of the service. Nothing can prevent me doing that.
A painful process, I'll grant you, and damnably tedious; but they came to it in the end, and so in the end, maybe, will poor imitative man. But," he broke off, "this faith of yours must have failed you, once." She shivered. "No; I made no claim on it, you see. Perhaps" with a little smile "I did not think myself important enough.
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