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"I mean, of course I cannot but" He stopped, and then assuming a peculiar expression, said: "But what are YOU doing here?" At any other moment the girl would have resented the tone, which was as new to her as his previous agitation, but in her present self-consciousness her situation seemed to require some explanation. "I came here," she said, "to see Mr. Rushbrook on business.
Every one was thinking of the same subject, and his abrupt exclamation needed no explanation. 'If he could trust his hands he might, said the commissario in halting, broken English; 'but I doubt if they or the peons have been paid lately. 'Besides, on the steamer, said Toffy, 'he could be easily caught. 'Yes, said Dunbar, 'if he knows that we want to catch him, which he doesn't.
If there are vices as possibly there are from which he was exempt, it is because it is not permitted to human nature to attain perfection even in evil. The only plausible explanation for palliation there is none of his infamous career is that the man really believed himself not a king but a god.
On the other hand, as to the presence of the dogs, that requires no explanation. Was there ever a time or place in which a dog grudged his sprightly and disinterested service, or failed to do his best when called upon?
That he might have a precise explanation of this law, he went to the two authors of it; but as he embarrassed them by the subtlety of his questions, they plainly told him that they prohibited him from entering into conversation with young people.
"I am afraid," said he after a while, "that your care for my good opinion won't outlast an occasion. Is that the way you look for every day?" The colour came with the smile; but the old doctor looked at her in a way that made the tears come too. He turned his eyes to Mrs. Rossitur for an explanation. "She is well," said Mrs.
If ever a lawless act was defensible on the principle of self-preservation, the murder of Charles might be defended. I suspect that the fatal delay in the publication of the 'Icon Basilike' is susceptible of no other satisfactory explanation. In short it is absurd to burthen this act on Cromwell and his party, in any special sense.
You are our chief engineer, you know, and it won't do to have you laid up." "That's a logical explanation, but it doesn't go far enough," he rejoined, still studying her intently. She did not reply, but turned to Perkins. "How are you, Mr. Perkins? Do you require medical attention?" "No," growled Perkins from the seat in which he had crouched immediately after eating.
All her grief and all her shame at having had such a child became apparent in the quivering of her voice. Camille, however, had stopped short, as if struck in the face with a whip. Then she came back to her mother and the horrible explanation began with these simple words spoken in an undertone: "You consider that I dress badly?
"I am still at a loss to account for this affair of your father's," he said. "Of course I know what it is supposed to be a reception in honour of our home-coming. That explanation may or may not be sufficient for these stupid islanders, but it's rather too thin for me. Can you tell me what your father means by it?"
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