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"Well, she might," Mary agreed with a happy laugh, "so I'll simply run for my hat. You never can be sure, with Mamma!" Duncan Coppered felt that his father's second marriage was a great mistake. He never said so; that would not have been Duncan's way. But he had a little manner of discreetly compressing his lips, when, the second Mrs.
Twice before that evening I remembered it had been when she spoke so enigmatically of the lumber industry her eyes had rested there briefly, discreetly, but in all sympathy. Now the look was different. It wavered. At one instant I seemed to read regret that I had come off so well her eyes flickered suggestively to my remaining arm. "Be fair," I said; "did I not drink your toast?"
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.
And the more vociferous the resulting complaints of the opposition, the more apparent it became that it was no mere skirmish party that had been sent out against him; he had whipped the generals themselves. His methods were mentioned discreetly; his results were made known to all men. The fact that it was his grandson who had been nominated was not emphasized as an item of general knowledge.
She showed her reader soberly encased in a calico cover. Emmy Lou grew hot. She hid her Reader hastily. Somehow she felt that she had been immodest. The next day Emmy Lou's Reader came to school discreetly swathed in calico. Hardly had the Second Reader begun, when one Friday the music man came. And after that he came every Friday and stayed an hour.
"Go, Michael," said Nelly, "and tell him that I bless him from my heart, and wish him every happiness; but do not ask him to come here. It is better for his sake he should not be seeing me and fancying that I can ever care for him." Michael promised to behave discreetly in the matter, and set off. The heavy gale was still blowing.
He was welcomed with the wildest enthusiasm, banquets were given in his honor, swords voted him by state legislatures, New York ordered a portrait painted of him, and Congress gave him a gold medal. The War Department discreetly permitted his disobedience of orders to drop out of sight. Hull's victory was not the result of accident, but of long and careful training.
He was looking in a sort of rapture at the name which his own hand had written now for the first time, and he felt an indecorous desire to kiss it. "If I could speak it as I've written it " "I don't see what harm there would be in that," said the owner of the name, "or what object," she added more discreetly. "I should feel that I had made a great gain."
On St. Patrick's he takes rest, and is drenched for all the year after. Is one whose bounty is limited by reason, not ostentation; and to make it last he deals it discreetly, as we sow the furrow, not by the sack, but by the handful. His word and his meaning never shake hands and part, but always go together.
I felt provoked by her obstinacy, but to excuse her to myself as far as I could, I suggested that perhaps she had never been used to eat in the company of men, and that her family might have taught her that she ought to behave prudently and discreetly in the presence of her husband. Likewise that she might either have dined already or intend to do so in her own apartments.
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