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Then on his friend's taking the idea with a mere headshake of negation, a repudiation that might even have astonished by its own lack of surprise, "Or unless Mrs. Brook's in love with you," he amended. Vanderbank had for this any decent gaiety. "Ah that of course may perfectly be!" "But IS it? That's the question." He continued light.
He was silent a little longer, as if thinking what it might be. "There's something I have in mind that I can still do." But she threw off at last, with a sharp sad headshake, drying her eyes, what he could still do. "I don't care for that.
"You'd like to see him?" "Oh, I don't say," Mark ruefully smiled, "that I should like him to see me !" Newton Winch, from where he stood and they were together now, on the great hearth-rug that was a triumph of modern orientalism put out one of the noted fine hands and, with an expressive headshake, laid it on his shoulder. "Don't wish him that, Monteith don't wish him that!"
"That's tough," commiserated Jack Harpe, and dropped at his side the arm he had braced against the wall of the hotel. Also he straightened his crossed leg. His air and manner, even to the most casual of eyes, took on a sudden brisk watchfulness. "That's tough," repeated Jack Harpe, and added a headshake for good measure. "Ain't it?" Racey Dawson said, brightly. "But maybe you can help me out.
He'd sooner talk of you behind your back." "What does he say?" inquired Mr. Stokes, coldly ignoring a frantic headshake on the part of his friend. "Promise me you won't tell him if I tell you," said Mrs. Henshaw. Mr. Stokes promised. "I don't know that I ought to tell you," said Mrs. Henshaw, reluctantly, "but I get so sick and tired of him coming home and grumbling about you."
She wanted from my own lips so I saw it the truth. But I was with her for twenty minutes, and she never asked me for it." "She never wanted the truth" Kate had a high headshake. "She wanted you. She would have taken from you what you could give her and been glad of it, even if she had known it false.
Many people have inquired in their turn, "And what about the worm?" But the proverb is quite true, all the same. Again, "A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a proverb which has been repeated over and over again with many a headshake when young people have refused to settle down, but have changed from one thing to another and roamed from place to place. And this is quite true.
He had an extraordinary smile. "His mother." She exclaimed, colouring, on her mistake, and he added: "I'm not so bad as that. But you're none of you like them." "Wasn't she pretty?" Nanda asked. "Very handsome. But it makes no difference. She herself to-day wouldn't know him." She gave a small gasp. "His own mother wouldn't ?" His headshake just failed of sharpness. "No, nor he her.
"Is there anything he can do that would make you patch it up?" "With Mrs. Newsome?" Her assent, as if she had had a delicacy about sounding the name, was only in her face; but she added with it: "Or is there anything he can do that would make HER try it?" "To patch it up with me?" His answer came at last in a conclusive headshake. "There's nothing any one can do. It's over. Over for both of us."
"Let's hear it, then, Rube. I'm glad to find that you're exercising your powers of reasoning. What's your idea?" "This," declared Rube, with a knowing headshake. "I was figurin' that the low-down scoundrel as fired that poisoned arrow might be well, might be Nick Undrell.
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