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Crumpled would be a mild expression for our linen. We remonstrated, but were met with a shrug of the shoulders and a deprecatory but imperturbable smile "Yes; Johanna wash!" And "Johanna" we found we were expected to receive as a sufficient explanation for any deficiencies in any line. If not satisfactory to us, it was at least modest in them.
Pocketing the coins, he shouts "h-o-i!" again, and delivers himself of another smile even more peculiar and indescribable than the other. "Persian-like, receiving a present of money only excites his cupidity for more," I think; and so reply by a deprecatory shake of the head.
The girl's eyes traveled around the room in some surprise, and finally reached the top of the ladder. "I I'm a freshman," she began. "My dear," murmured Patty, in a deprecatory tone, "I should have taken you for a senior; but" with a wave of her hand toward the nearest dry-goods box "come in and sit down. I need your advice.
Burke is warned by Shackleton to endeavour to live according to the rules of the Gospel, and he humbly accepts the good advice, with the deprecatory plea that in a town it is difficult to sit down to think seriously. It is easier, he says, to follow the rules of the Gospel in the country than at Trinity College, Dublin.
Those disturbances in the main, however, have made them dubious as to our skill, energy and intelligence rather than as to our good-will. Americans, taken individually and collectively, are to the Chinese at least such was my impression a rather simple folk, taking the word in its good and its deprecatory sense.
A letter was then formally addressed to his Majesty, in the name of the Archduke Matthias and of the estates, demanding the recal of Don John and the, maintenance of the Ghent Pacification. De Seller, in reply, sent a brief, deprecatory paper, enclosing a note from Don John, which the envoy acknowledged might seem somewhat harsh in its expressions.
"It seems, Miss Minturn, that you cannot be excused," Miss Walton observed, with a deprecatory smile. Katherine did not mean to be driven out of the club in such an underhanded manner if she could avoid it; neither would she violate her conscience. "I shall be obliged to maintain my position, nevertheless," she responded, after a moment of thought.
His worship the adjutant de Plaza, the sergeant murmured, was having his siesta; and supposing that he, the sergeant, would be allowed access to him, the only result he expected would be to have his soul flogged out of his body for presuming to disturb his worship's repose. He made a deprecatory movement with his hands, and stood stock-still, looking down modestly upon his brown toes.
I said I was not one to go and serve Mammon at that rate; that I knew when I'd got a good missus, if she didn't know when she'd got a good servant" "But, Martha," said I, cutting in while she wiped her eyes. "Don't, 'but Martha' me," she replied to my deprecatory tone. "Listen to reason"
The warrant ought to be enough; and if you can't get a chance to serve it on him, that's not your fault. Your deputies haven't any right in that cove, and I'm going to smoke 'em out." Mizzoo chewed, with a deprecatory shake of his head. "See here, old tap," he murmured, "don't you say nothing about being Brick Willock's friend. The whole country is roused against him. Heard of them three bodies?"
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