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"My name," she said, without appearing to notice, "is Lydia Orr Bolton. No one seems to remember perhaps they didn't know my mother's name was Orr. My uncle took me away from here. I was only a baby. It seemed best to " "Where are they now?" he asked guardedly. The painter had disappeared behind the house. But he could hear heavy steps on the roof over their heads.
There is no man or set of men who can similarly speak for the American people; and no one is better aware of that fact than the American, however honoured by his countrymen, when he gives expression in London to the cordiality of his own feelings for Great Britain and expresses guardedly his conviction that a recurrence of trouble between the peoples will never again be possible.
"You wished to see me?" said Drishna, unable to stand the ordeal of the silence that Carrados imposed after his remark. "When you left Miss Chubb's house you left a ruler behind." One lay on the desk by Carrados and he took it up as he spoke. "I don't understand what you are talking about," said Drishna guardedly. "You are making some mistake."
Now that his quarry had fallen so opportunely within his grasp, Morris's face wreathed itself in smiles of such amiability that Uncle Mosha grew at once suspicious. "You got the advantage from me," he said. "Why, don't you know me?" Morris cooed. "I think," Uncle Mosha replied guardedly, "I seen you oncet before somewheres.
"I never professed to believe," declared Miller. "You were pretty well convinced that night in your study, weren't you?" I asked. "I was puzzled," he replied, guardedly.
He spoke softly and guardedly; and when he was about to make a statement on his sole responsibility or offer a suggestion, he weighed it by drachms and scruples first, with the crook of his little stick placed meditatively to his teeth. His opening speech was perfect. It was perfect in construction, in phraseology, in grammar, in emphasis, in pronunciation everything.
At the gate I dismissed Ernest, and Dawn condescended to remark that he wasn't quite such a fool as usual, which interpreted meant that he had not been so guardedly stand-off to her as he sometimes was. The trains once more entertained my waking hours that night.
Maxwell coming and she turned the conversation with a jolt of conscience into another channel. "Yes, it is very dry," said she effusively; "we need rain very much indeed." The little woman with the crimped hair colored very painfully. Mrs. Maxwell made frequent errands into the room, and her daughter's wedding had to be discussed guardedly.
"Oh," said Berg, "you are not the coroner's office in?" "No; merely interested in this case, that's all." The delicatessen dealer looked relieved. "I don't want to get people in trouble," said he, guardedly. "But this is what I guess. Late every night, about the time I shut up my place, there is a cab comes und by the curbstone stands across the street.
But when I guardedly sounded my friends of the Intelligence they didn't seem to be worrying about it. From them I got a chit to the local French authorities, and, as soon as we came out of the line, towards the end of December, I made straight for the country town of Douvecourt. By a bit of luck our divisional quarters were almost next door.
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