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Just tell us straight off, if ye can, what's been already done at the Rock." "Well, well," said Maroon, with a deprecatory smile, "owld father an' me's always bin misonderstud more or less; but no matter. Av coorse we've had the usual difficulties to fight agin, for the owld Eddystone Rock ain't agoin' to change its natur to please nobody.
Verner made a deprecatory movement of the hands, as much as to say that it was no business of hers. "Lionel, I have only one request to make of you: never speak of the estate to me again, or of anything connected with its management. You are its sole master, and can do as you please. Shall you turn me out?" Lionel's face flushed. "No, Mrs. Verner," he almost passionately answered.
Thus, although they kill a bear whenever they can, "in the process of dissecting the carcass they endeavor to conciliate the deity, whose representative they have slain, by making elaborate obeisances and deprecatory salutations"; "when a bear has been killed the Ainu sit down and admire it, make their salaams to it, worship it, and offer presents of inao"; "when a bear is trapped or wounded by an arrow, the hunters go through an apologetic or propitiatory ceremony."
The young man wasn't intrinsically formidable a rather limp, deprecatory sort, he looked. But, as an emissary from Galbraith, he quickened Rose's heart-beat a trifle. She smiled though as she made a small bet with herself that he wouldn't be able to turn her out, even in his capacity of envoy.
"I went back to the mine, but several things suggested that the name upon the pay-roll wasn't his real one. He began a broken message the night he died, but the hemorrhage cut him off in the middle of it. The wish that I should tell his people somehow was in his eyes." Wyllard broke off for a moment with the deprecatory gesture, which in connection with the story was very expressive.
The one thing lacking in his make-up and which only came into view when he turned his head was the upper part of one ear. This was clipped as close as a terrier's. Again he repeated the question with a deprecatory smile, as if he already regretted his outburst. "Is it a punt ye're wantin', sor?" "Yes and a man to pole it and look after me while I paint.
In a moment more she raised her eyes, and invited any of her hearers to question her about anything connected with the subject which troubled them. For a breathing time there was silence, and then a lady asked with a puzzled air: "But do you Christian Scientists deny" "I beg your pardon," Mrs. Crapps interrupted, leaning forward with a deprecatory smile, "but I am not a Christian Scientist."
Willie received it with an humble and deprecatory look, as if he felt the whole responsibility and weight of the reproof that had fallen upon his cousin. One Christmas eve, when Willie was above seven years old, the widow and her son were sitting by the cottage hearth. The closed shutters, drawn curtains, clean hearth and bright fire threw an air of great comfort over the room. Mrs.
He was back almost at once with a handful of cigarettes, which he placed on the table. Then he drew up a chair. With a little deprecatory gesture, he used one of my matches to light a cigarette. "It was truly for the gas," he said, catching my smile; "and the gas for the cigarette!" There was something fascinating about the man; an air of good-humor, of comradeship, of strength, of purpose.
He recognized the Socialist leader who had called on him a few months before. "Yes: and I'm afraid you don't approve," he said. Mr. Hardy made a little deprecatory gesture, still holding his hat in his hand. "Oh! I'm a believer in majorities," he said. "And there's no doubt you have the majority. But " "Yes?" "I hope you will be merciful. That is your Gospel, you know."
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