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The man who ought to be condemned isn't the man that doesn't understand what's going on, but the man who comes to understand and persists in opposing it." He rose and looked down at me with the queer, disturbing smile I remembered. "I get off at this corner," he added, rather diffidently. "I hope you'll forgive me for being personal. I didn't mean to be, but you rather forced it on me."
We had a pleasant talk, and I offered to do anything I could. I gave her our address, and she is to write." "Did you tell her you'd invite her down?" Peter put this question diffidently. "I intimated it. She was rather independent but very nice, and said she was grateful, especially after I insisted on giving her that 'Moon' dress, which now I've sent to her cabin.
He has offered himself to my acceptance in so unreserved a manner, that I am concerned I have written so freely and diffidently of him. Pray, my dearest friend, keep to yourself every thing that may appear disreputable of him from me.
Still puzzled, Diane diffidently ventured a question or two, marveling afresh at the girl's beauty and singular costume. "I am of no race," said Keela sombrely. "My father was a white man; my mother not all Indian; my grandfather a Minorcan. Six moons I live with my white foster father. And I live then as I wish like the daughter of white men. Six moons I dwell with the clan of my mother.
"I am sure of it," said Ken, and then, a little more diffidently: "Do you like me best?" "Why, yes, of course I do," said Patty, smiling, "that is, after papa and Aunt Alice and Marian and Uncle Charley and Frank and Mancy and Pansy and Mr. Hepworth." Patty might not have added the last name if she had not just then seen that gentleman coming toward her.
Suppose suppose they killed my brother when he was about to round them up, and they want to drive me and my mother out of the country. Scare us out, you know. Well, " she hesitated and glanced diffidently at the boys who had edged up to listen, "that would leave room for all kinds of feature stuff. Say that I have just one or two boys that I can depend on, boys that I know are loyal.
Why, I wouldn't have missed this for anything!" And there came a knock at the door. Even Eph looked a trifle blank at this. If it should be company! "Come in!" he called. The door was pushed aside and a big, steaming platter entered. It was upheld by a small boy, who stammered diffidently, "My moth-moth-mother thaid she wanted you to try thum of her nith turkey."
"Pardon me, but I did not mean to prevent you." He spoke stiffly, almost diffidently, as on unused to speech with strangers, unused to speech at all; but without a trace of embarrassment or of affectation. "I do not judge others. I merely know my people and myself." Again the stranger hesitated, and again his face betrayed him.
In the darkness there was a muffled thud of timid footsteps, and the silhouette of a woman appeared out of the copse. I recognized her, although it was dark it was Agafya. She came up to us diffidently and stopped, breathing hard. She was breathless, probably not so much from walking as from fear and the unpleasant sensation everyone experiences in wading across a river at night.
The tea made to his satisfaction, he asked diffidently if there was a "bit of meat to spare," as his was a "bit off"; and Dan went to the larder with a hospitable "stacks!" "How would boiled cabbage and roast turkey go?"
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