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Apparently her unwelcome guest had not stirred. The revolver was where he had laid it. "Read this," she said. The visitor glanced through it. "It is Gregor's hand. Poor old chap! I shall never forgive my self." "For what?" "For dragging him into this. They must have intercepted one of my telegrams." He stared dejectedly at the strip of oilcloth in front of the range. "You are an American?" "Yes."
Gone were the dreams of adventure, of wild geese and bears just wakening from their winter's sleep. School! And with those few kids at the Forks! "What's the use of anything?" Whitey muttered dejectedly. And Bull, who at times was very sympathetic, looked up at him as much as to say, "Nothing."
She knocked briskly at the door, then waited a little. There was no response. She knocked again, harder and longer, but still silence unbroken by any footfall, reigned within. After pounding upon the door at intervals for at least ten minutes, she turned and walked dejectedly away from the house of denial, speculating as to what could possibly have become of the Stevens'.
Absorbed in his sensations, he trudged dejectedly after his tormentor, who seemed to have forgotten his existence, though he gave him a rude and careless shove with his elbow now and then. Suddenly Pyotr Stepanovitch halted in one of the principal thoroughfares and went into a restaurant. "What are you doing?" cried Liputin, boiling over. "This is a restaurant." "I want a beefsteak."
I've told you already..." The poor woman who had fallen into his hands found much that was obscure, especially when his autobiography almost passed into a complete dissertation on the fact that no one had been ever able to understand Stepan Trofimovitch, and that "men of genius are wasted in Russia." It was all "so very intellectual," she reported afterwards dejectedly.
Find out what he wants for it at once, and pay him; I'm not going to let you run into debt." "But I can't; I've only two shillings left," said Stephen, dejectedly. "Why, whatever have you done with the five shillings you had last week?" Stephen blushed, and then faltered, "I spent sixpence on stamps and sixpence on on brandy-balls!" "I thought so. And what did you do with the rest?" "Oh!
There may be a scandal and I won't drag you all into it," he said, dejectedly. "I'll send for Bob, just the same, dear boy. What are friends for, pray?" She left him with the firm and secret determination to carry the war for friendship's sake to the very door of Dorothy Garrison's stubborn heart, and that without delay. When Lord Bob reached Brussels on Friday he found affairs in a sorry shape.
"We'll never catch them now!" mourned Ruth, dejectedly. They sat gazing at each other helplessly. "Well, we'll never catch them if we sit here all day; that's a sure thing!" announced Jack, coming to life. "Come on, Mason! Let's break all records for a quick change!" They scrambled out into the road.
Gordon found the two kings sitting dejectedly side by side, and gazing grimly upon the disorder of the village, from which the people were taking their leave as quickly as they could get their few belongings piled upon the ox-carts. Gordon walked amongst them, helping them in every way he could, and tasting, in their subservience and gratitude, the sweets of sovereignty.
Old lady seems to think there's a chance of keeping the family pure English seems to think she'd like it better see? At least, I take it that way; he's cousin to a lord," Dick added dejectedly, "and you know financially I've been coming through a cold season." "It's awkward," I admitted, "but old ladies of no family are like that over here. I know Mrs.
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