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To the contrary, he was seen to stroke his lips discreetly as if to erase a smile.
They were to take the same course with the English envoys, but in more general terms, and were very discreetly to communicate to them whatever they already knew, and, on the other hand, carefully to conceal from them all that was still a secret.
The jury had previously dispersed, clothed in the sanctity of duties discreetly performed, knowing why they did them, and enjoying whatever consolation or advantage appertained thereto.
The two were great friends; friends in their mutual love and service of the King, friends in their equally mutual but discreetly silent worship of the Queen, and friends in their very differences of opinion on men and matters in general.
The Countess hastened away from one who, when roused, could be almost as clever as herself, and again stood in meditation near the joyful Harry. This time she did not signal so discreetly. Harry could not but see it, and the Conley girls accused him of cruelty to the beautiful dame, which novel idea stung Harry with delight, and he held out to indulge in it a little longer.
And then, to avoid any hazard of altercation, she discreetly forbore making further complaints, preferring any persecution to seriously remonstrating with a man of so much insolence as the Baronet. The schoolmaster, laughing at the whole transaction, only said, "And pray, madam, after playing the devil with all mankind, what right have you to complain that one man plays the devil with you?"
I saw Miss Randolph yesterday, but pretended not to recognize her, fearing the result of being identified." "But you ought not to have doubted us, Mr. Langdon!" Not knowing just how to explain this unwarranted, agnostic caprice, Oswald discreetly proceeds with his general line of defense.
I couldn't resist asking Ralph, who sat beside me, in that blessed seat sacred so long to the One Woman. "Yes, it had," he replied discreetly. "And with Dalmar-Kalm?" "Distinctly with Dalmar-Kalm." That sent some blood up behind my eyes, and I saw Ragusa red, instead of pink. "By Jove, you've got to tell me what she did say, now!" I exclaimed. "Can't, my dear chap.
The least excitement would stampede them, plundering, at random, and now and then killing; but if they were handled discreetly they grieved like children, and promised never to do it again. The Bhils of the regiment the uniformed men were virtuous in many ways, but they needed humouring.
I suppose that you, being blessed with her acquaintance, do not need the formality of my introduction?" "Umph!" said the stranger, rather shortly and uncourteously. "No! Perhaps you had better present me!" "By what name shall I have that honour, sir?" discreetly inquired the nomenclator. "Clifford!" answered the stranger; "Captain Clifford!"
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