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"I fell in love with you at the mature age of nineteen and I never fell out again." Elisabeth flashed him a charming smile. "Perhaps Tim may follow in your footsteps, then," she suggested serenely. "Well, would you be pleased?" persisted her husband, jerking his head explanatorily in the direction in which Sara and Tim had disappeared.

"I suppose you are in a hurry to see your aunt and cousin?" remarked the doctor. "Yes, but I don't know them. You see," explanatorily, "they aren't my real relations." "Indeed?" "No, aunt Madge is my uncle's wife and cousin Eloise is her little girl, but not uncle Lawrence's." The doctor thought a minute. "Really? She is a very charming little girl, is your cousin Eloise.

"She allowed to do herself credit in one of them new store gownds that she got at Sacramento. At least that's what some of our men said. Late years, I ain't kept tech with the fashions myself." She passed her fingers explanatorily down the folds of her own coarse gown, but without regret or apology.

"But," said Masterton, as the wind volleyed the sharp snow pellets in their faces and the leaders were scarcely distinguishable through the smoke-like discharges, "it can't be worse than here." The driver did not speak, but the other passenger craned over his back, and said explanatorily: "I reckon ye don't know these storms; this kind o' dry snow don't stick and don't clog. Look!"

"Can't say I'm much troubled with them, except here," and she moved her foot explanatorily. "Just that joint. It's agony sometimes. Suppressed gout, you know. You wouldn't think so to look at it, would you?" "That the gout was suppressed? certainly I should," answered the stranger, smiling. "There is no external sign of it. I always thought gout meant large lumps, and swellings of the joints."

Just because Rachel had this unusual quality, this power of looking inward, might she not understand the complexities of his life better than others? He wondered in his tense silence, but did not raise his eyes to see. His silence finally chilled Rachel, and she, too, began to stare at the fire. The low talk of the other couple ceased and Gus said, explanatorily, "We were just speaking of Mr.

"Some folks was a-hintin'," pursued the old fellow, speaking slowly, "as, maybe, that young man hadn't married her; but I knowed better then that, because, even if Phrony warn't a good girl, which she is, though she ain't got much sense, he knowed me. They ain't none of 'em ever intimated that to me," he added explanatorily. Keith was glad that he had not intimated it.

"Mongoose," said Adam, and then added explanatorily: "I was out with the mongoose just after three." "Four snakes in one morning! Why, I didn't know there were so many on the Brow" the local name for the western cliff. "I hope that wasn't the consequence of our talk of last night?" "It was, sir. But not directly."

"Why, what in the world ?" cried that astonished gentleman. "The house is asleep," said Jerry, explanatorily. "So I see," and Brent glanced up at the darkened windows. There was a moment's pause. Then out of the embarrassing silence Jerry remarked: "Just coming from the dance? I didn't see you there." "No," replied the uncomfortable Brent. "I was restless and just strolled here." "Oh!

It was then that I noticed Ruth's maid, Tibbetts, hovering in the hall outside the library door. "You may go home, Tibbetts," Ruth said to her, kindly. "These gentlemen will stay late and I'll look after them myself." Tibbetts went away, and Ruth said, explanatorily, "My maid is a treasure.