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I know, too, that to have forced my presence upon you in this manner may seem discourteous. Yet the urgency of the matter, I am convinced, justifies me." Louise motioned him to a chair, but he declined with a little bow of thanks. "Mademoiselle," he said, "and you, Mr. Bellamy, we need not waste words. We have played a game of chess together. You, Mademoiselle, and Mr.
He suddenly jumped up, followed Roscorla into the passage, where the latter was standing, and said to him, "Don't you be too harsh with Wenna: she's only a girl, and they are all alike." This hint, however discourteous in its terms, had some significance as coming from a man who was six inches taller than Mr. Roscorla. Mr. Roscorla was shown into an empty room.
Do you not see it?" The Wanderer laughed lightly. It was years since he had laughed, until this friendship had begun. "What can I say?" he asked. "If you, the woman, acknowledge yourself vulnerable, how can I, the man, be so discourteous as to assure you that I am proof? And yet, I feel that there is no danger for either of us." "You are still sure?"
"We don't want you without your mind," said Andrew, grown suddenly discourteous. "If you are mad you ought not to have come. Don't you see that you have given my mother a terrible shock?" "Don't be unkind, Mr. Beaton!" exclaimed Elsie, in a tone of reproof. "Of course Mrs. Penn has come to bring us some news. Oh, Mrs.
Royce is that I "borrowed" my whole theory of universals from Hegel "unconsciously," he has the caution to say; but that qualification does not in the least mitigate the mischievous intention and effect of his accusation as a glaring falsification of fact and artful misdescription of my work. It would be inopportune and discourteous to weary you with philosophical discussions.
"I'll go mad, dear, if I have to stand it all night!" They dared not be discourteous. A reputation for heartlessness would have followed Anna to the grave if she had gone to bed while the dead child lay there. Withero had been at old William Farren's wake and was going home when he saw Anna and Jamie at the door. They explained the situation.
But I shall never marry any one who is not a Douglas." The marshal nodded. "I do not think that you shall marry any one who is not a Douglas!" he said, with a certain grave and not discourteous irony in his tones. "Yes," the little Maid went on. She had lost all fear in the very act of speech. "Yes, and Maud, she is going to marry Sholto and they will be very happy, for they love each other so.
Tell him to come immediately to the laboratory." Meanwhile Kennedy was busy arranging what he had discovered in logical order and putting on it the finishing touches. As Dr. Maudsley entered Kennedy greeted him and began by plunging directly into the case in answer to his rather discourteous inquiry as to why he had been so hastily summoned. "Dr.
We know that the crew of the Royal Navy's Bulldog fished up a starfish from 2,620 fathoms, hence from a depth of more than one vertical league. Would you still say, Captain Nemo, that we really know nothing?" "No, professor," the captain replied, "I wouldn't be so discourteous. Yet I'll ask you to explain how these creatures can live at such depths?" "I explain it on two grounds," I replied.
There was a brief silence; then Lady Allonby observed: "Perhaps I was discourteous. I ask your forgiveness, Mr. Orts. And now, if you will pardon the suggestion, I think you had better go to your dying parishioner." But she had touched the man to the quick. "I am a drunkard; who made me so?
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