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"Are you are the doctors still " "They are through for the present and coming down now." "Then I will go to him. Oh, but I must" this to the horrified little Sister's upraised hands of protest and headshake of negation. "It's against all rules," ejaculated the little Sister. Miss Blair addressed herself to the young doctor. "Kindly take me to the room," she said.
It had been as if he almost really believed she had simply cried for fatigue, and he accordingly put in some kind confused plea "You ought really to take something: won't you have something or other somewhere?" to which she had made no response but a headshake of a sharpness that settled it. "Why shan't we all the more keep meeting?" "I mean meeting this way only this way.
He tried once more to persuade the Marchese to resume the game for the sake of Lorenzi, though he hardly knew what moved him. The Marchese refused with a yet more decisive headshake. Lorenzi rose, saying: "I shall have the honor, Signor Marchese, of handing the amount I owe you to you personally, before noon to-morrow." The Marchese laughed drily.
For in their circle, not only were the claims of respectability silently admitted, but the conduct of this and that man of their acquaintance, or of public note, was pronounced upon with understood reference to those claims now with smile of incredulity or pity, now with headshake regretful or condemnatory and this all the time that each was doing his best to reduce himself to a condition in which the word conduct could no longer have meaning in reference to him.
By HARRY ANABLE KNIFFIN From Brief Stories The Little Chap reached up a chubby hand to the doorknob. A few persistent tugs and twists and it turned in his grasp. Slowly pushing the door open, he stood hesitating on the threshold of the studio. The Big Chap looked up from his easel by the window. His gray eyes kindled into a kindly smile, its welcoming effect offset by an admonitory headshake.
Well, she looked, before him there, at the condition then, abruptly, with a gesture, she gave it up. She had a headshake of disenchantment so far as the idea had appealed to her. It all appeared too difficult. "Oh, my 'condition' I don't hold to it. You may cry it on the housetops anything I ever do." "Ah well, then !" This made, he laughed, all the difference. But it was too late.
I've wondered for you. But it has been best," she said again. "Yet it has done no good?" "I don't know. I've been afraid you were gone." Then as he gave a headshake which, though slow, was deeply mature: "You won't go?" "Is to 'go," he asked, "to be still?" "Oh I mean if you'll stay for me." "I'll do anything for you. Isn't it for you alone now I can?"
Assingham, still darkly contemplative, denied this with a headshake. "She won't 'put' it anywhere. She won't do with it anything anyone else would. She'll take it all herself." "You mean she'll make it out her own fault?" "Yes she'll find means, somehow, to arrive at that." "Ah then," the Colonel dutifully declared, "she's indeed a little brick!"
Then Maggie measured the reach of her allusion, and how what she next said gave her meaning a richness. No other name was to be spoken, and Mrs. Assingham had taken that, without delay, from her eyes with a discretion, still, that fell short but by an inch. "You know how he feels." Maggie at this then slowly matched her headshake. "I know nothing." "You know how YOU feel."
You see that I saw that Maggie would accept her in helpless ignorance. Yes, dearest" and the grimness of her dreariness suddenly once more possessed her: "you've only to tell me that that knowledge was my reason for what I did. How, when you do, can I stand up to you? You see," she said with an ineffable headshake, "that I don't stand up!
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