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She remained where she was just then because she had been startled by the sound of her husband's voice, and was not sure of her power of self-control. When, a few minutes later, he came out upon the terrace with a half-amused, half-apologetic look on his face, she felt safer. She resolved to waste no time, but to tell him at once.
'Then if so be you really wouldn't mind, we'll wring down this last filling to let it drain all night? 'Not at all. I like to see you. 'We are only just grinding down the early pickthongs and griffins, continued the farmer, in a half-apologetic tone for detaining by his cider-making any well-dressed woman.
Vanderlyn's question; and the latter, repeating it, added impatiently: "I don't understand you; if Nick agrees-" "Oh, he agrees," said Susy. "Then what more do you want! Oh, Susy, if you'd only follow my example!" "Your example?" Susy paused, weighed the word, was struck by something embarrassed, arch yet half-apologetic in her friend's expression. "Your example?" she repeated.
They asked him: 'But does she love you? And he said: 'One does not inquire of the fish one likes whether it likes one." I flushed. "You'll pardon me, Langdon," said I, "but I don't like that. It isn't my attitude at all toward the right sort of women." He looked half-quizzical, half-apologetic. "Ah, to be sure," said he. "I forgot you weren't a married man."
Canada Bill was a character one might travel the length and breadth of the land and never find his match, or run across his equal. Imagine a medium-sized, chicken-headed, tow-haired sort of man with mild blue eyes, and a mouth nearly from ear to ear, who walked with a shuffling, half-apologetic sort of a gait, and who, when his countenance was in repose, resembled an idiot.
Speak, man!" But Saunders, who was still supporting himself against the wall, only looked at them with a singular and half-apologetic smile, and then leaned forward as if to catch the eye of Shuttleworth, who was recovering consciousness in the uplifted arms of his companions. But neither spoke. "It's some d d Greaser inside!" said Thompson, with sudden ferocity. "Some of her cursed crew!
But all at once, as if recalled from an abstraction, Susanna gave a little laugh, what seemed a slightly annoyed, half-apologetic little laugh, and lifted her hands in a gesture of deprecation, of self-reprehension. "I beg your pardon," she said. "I can't think how I have allowed myself to become so tiresome. One prates of one's parish pump." "Tiresome?" cried out Anthony, in spontaneous protest.
If that close-mouthed old wretch dines here often, my little girl will think him better than Uncle Tom! "I began to see uncle's crafty tactics, and must have looked at him in a questioning, half-apologetic way. "Uncle Thomas responded with: "'Oh, you little suspicious innocence! I was only pumping.
There was a deprecating gesture on Ethie's part, but it passed unnoticed, and when next the doctor went to visit Richard he said, in a half-apologetic way, that the young lady in the next room was suffering from a violent headache, which was aggravated by every sound, even the squeak of a boot would Governor Markham greatly object to wearing slippers for a while? Dr.
She was not beautiful, but, oh, she was beautiful with health and calm vigor. The Doctor let his eyes rest on her. "If you knew," he said, with a little, half-apologetic laugh. In her turn she held up one of her long hands. "But I do; you forget I was there all the morning. And you pulled him through.