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"What do you know about the theatre?" Champney was genuinely surprised; "I thought you came from an orphan asylum." "Yer did, did yer!" There was scorn in her voice. "Wot do I know 'bout the thayertre? Oh, but yer green!"
I asked her right then to say when, and she said she'd marry me June first, but she added " and the boy, to Dundee's watching eyes, seemed to be genuinely puzzled again by what must have sounded so odd at the time "that she'd marry me June first if she lived to see the day." "Oh!"
"It makes me sick," he declared. "The whole thing makes me sick. . . . Consider the minds of those people their feelings. Don't you agree?" "I always make a vow never to go to another party of any description," Helen replied, "and I always break it." She leant back in her chair and looked laughingly at the young man. She could see that he was genuinely cross, if at the same time slightly excited.
I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.
"I didn't hurt the old roof," he whispered. But he felt very happy, in spite of his irritation, and genuinely sorry for any boy who did not have a roof. Every morning now he enjoyed his splash in the tub; every night he glorified in his taste of the real outdoors. On the following Sunday, he combined the two pleasures.
He had cheated and swindled, but he was genuinely opposed to cheating and swindling. He was cheating and swindling now, in buying the option of Boston Copper. But he did not know that: he wanted to repair the original wrong, to hand back to Morris his fortune unimpaired, and also to save himself. But of these two wants, the second, it must be confessed, was infinitely the stronger.
In exchange for food, for rest, for a little peace of mind I am ready to try to learn to love you, to respect and obey you, and I will be glad to work for you, to keep your home, to do my duty like a diligent and faithful wife." But the man had looked at her with eyes genuinely surprised, because he had not really expected her. And of course she had found no favor in his sight.
The direct cause of this revival of romance lived, however, unconscious of it. She was genuinely frightened. She said her prayers with great fervour, begging God that He might save Frank, and that she might not be a murderess. She made him soups, she sent him wine, she brought him books, and she sat with him for hours.
To sum up, we thank you for the spirit of your letter, to which we have tried to respond in the same spirit. We are with you in the desire for an India genuinely free to develop the best that is in her and in the belief that best is something wonderful of which the world to-day stands in need.
And she told him the story most of it. When she finished he smiled at her. He seemed genuinely amused. "It's quite a tragedy," he admitted. "And what am I going to do?" "That's just the point," he agreed. "Has the tea room been making you money? Does it look good to you?" "Yes," she said. "Too good to let go of."
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