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As they are both utter strangers to life, it is a thousand to one that the girl will be picked up by some scoundrel or other at Bath, if I don't provide for her otherwise. You are a well-looking fellow, Random, and can behave as demurely as a quaker.
"You could not wear anything more becoming," he said, "and you do not know how much I want to treat the new cook as one of the family." "I will wear whatever the lord of the manor chooses," said Dora, demurely, and was about to make reference to his concluding remark, but checked herself.
Well, you have got it. Good-bye." "You know that was not what I meant," said Gavin, stepping after her. "I have told you already that whatever other people say, I trust you. I believe in you, Babbie." "Was that what you were saying to the tree?" asked the Egyptian, demurely.
I looked at this through the microscope. It was surprisingly well done; and I suppose the watches are as good as most." "Better than yours and mine, Del?" said Laura, demurely. "Why, no, I suppose not so good. But I was thinking more of the picture." "Oh!" said Laura. I was on the point of asking what she thought of Knight's Shakspeare, when the bell rang and Polly brought up Miss Russell's card.
He went away, driving the cow before him, and Lily stood looking after him. "He's wonderful," she said. "He comes along and takes hold of things and begins to teach me my own business." "So you're pleased with him?" Helen said demurely. "Yes," the other answered with twitching lips, "he's doing very well."
And all the while it was richly comic to himself to feel how he exulted, and to say within doors demurely to the shopman, to the waiter, the ticket clerk, the porter: 'I am an author, sir, an accepted author, with the first fruits of my first book in my pocket I am on the way to Paris and distinction. The four years of lost prospect and horizon looked nothing, less than nothing.
But you have some funny expressions, Mr. Stephens!" "What else strikes you as funny, Miss Sadie?" "Well, when you sent me the temple ticket and the little map, you began your letter, 'Enclosed, please find, and then at the bottom, in brackets, you had '2 enclo." "That is the usual form in business." "Yes, in business," said Sadie demurely, and there was a silence.
And the gallant gentleman bowed to Chad. "Will you pardon me, Miss Margaret? My mother is calling me." "You must have keen ears," said Margaret; "your mother is upstairs." "Yes; but she wants me. Everybody wants me, but " he bowed again with an imperturbable smile and went his way. Margaret looked demurely into Chad's eager eyes. "And how is the spirit of '76?" "The spirit of '76 is unchanged."
"Well, when you're in it there's a certain excitement in wondering how you're going to come out of it! But one might say that, of course, of the infernal regions." "Not quite," said Mary Lyster, smiling demurely. "Polly! you are a Tory. Everybody else's hell has moved but yours! Thank you, mother," as Lady Tranmore gave him tea.
"Good enough for four, Robert? If you do marry Sara, it must be to adopt the twins also." "Well, I will! We can scrimp along somehow; and Morton will soon look after himself. I wish you were back at Dartmoor this minute so I could" "A thousand thanks, my boy, it is a truly kind and filial wish," said his aunt demurely. "Aunt Felicie, you're enough to make a man wild!
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