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Blithelygo, seeing that he had at least excited the attention of the luncheon party, said half-apologetically: "Of course my experience is small, but in many parts of the world I have been surprised to see how uniform revolutionises the savage.
Then he went on more seriously, half-apologetically, as though the other might have found his mirth ill-timed: "My dear friend, it is a great honour, a great pleasure, you give me. I, too, have no belongings, no interests; this might be a great one. I never thought of it before, I must admit; but I will adopt her. She shall live with me, if it's necessary.
"You're wasting time with all this talk," I said sullenly. Clubfoot raised a hand deprecatingly. "I take a pride in my work," he observed half-apologetically. Then he added: "You must not forget that your pretty Countess is not an American. She is a German. She is also a widow.
"I must be at hand to-night," he said, after a moment, controlling himself. "The mater has promised to call me if there is any change. You see," he spoke half-apologetically, "she might feel kind of lonely waking up in a crowd of strangers, and mine is the only face she knows." Silence followed the words.
Nick shook his head; he could not say that anything ailed him. "Thought, maybe ther' was somethin' amiss," went on his brother, half-apologetically. He felt himself that he must talk. Then Nick was seized with a desire to confide in the only lifelong friend he had ever known. "Ther' ain't nothin' amiss, zac'ly," he said. And he got no farther. "Hah!" Ralph looked round sharply.
We were as children in those days," he put in half-apologetically, "and it was her fête. Bien, we started. Le petit Cinders went with us, and almost before we had entered he ran away. We followed him, for Christine was very anxious. I had never been beyond the second cavern myself, and we had only one lantern.
Is that it?" "Well," replied Ainley, half-apologetically, "you can scarcely expect that it sould be otherwise. I suppose that, really, that is why you left England. It would have been impossible for you to resume your old life among the men you knew " "You are the first of them that I have encountered with one exception." "Indeed," asked the other politely, "who was the exception?"
Looking out of the window, she said wistfully: "Maybe maybe if he knew all about it the suffering he wouldn't blame me." "Who?" cried Elfie sarcastically. "The good man who wanted to lead you to the good life without even a bread-basket for an advance agent? Huh!" "He doesn't know how desperately poor I am," explained Laura half-apologetically. "He knows you're out of work, don't he?"
"If that young man were in the American Army I would feel obliged to try to have him stopped," said Major Wells good-humoredly. "That was not the real American form of salutation to officers, but I know the youngster felt genuinely glad to see us so close to the front." "They are a happy lot, perhaps sometimes a trifle too merry," said Captain Ribaut half-apologetically.
"You're a queer fellow, Piers," he said. "But, taking 'em altogether, I should say there are a good many bigger fools in the world than you." "Thank you, sir," said Piers. "Mrs. Denys, may I come in?" Jeanie Lorimer's small, delicate face peeped round the door. "I've brought my French exercise to do," she said half-apologetically. "I thought perhaps you wouldn't mind."
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