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He had roused to the fact that Charles was rather "girly," and he wanted him like other boys. "He is a good scholar," his father returned in half protest. "Stands highest in his class." "Going to send him to college?" "I don't just know," hesitatingly. "Has he any fancy for a profession? He'd make an attractive minister." "I don't know as I have much of a fancy for that." Mr.

She detected the evasion and persisted: "But you think I'd look nicer in dresses, don't you?" Embarrassed, he responded hesitatingly: "You see down South where I come from the girls all wear white and lace and ribbon sashes and carry parasols and think a lot about their complexions. You're just different." The herder waved his arm. "Way 'round 'em, Shep," and the sheep began moving.

Berners, don't you know me?" he inquired in a low tone, as if fearful of being heard. Sybil looked at him in surprise, and answered hesitatingly: "N-no. "You forget people that you have been good to; but they don't forget you. Try to recollect me, Miss Sybil Mrs. Berners." "Your face seems familiar; but " "But you don't recollect it? Well, may be you may remember names better than faces.

"Yes," said Priam Farll. She smiled at him with grave sympathy, comfortably and sensibly. "And right down relieved you must be!" she murmured. "It must have been very trying for you." "In a way," he answered hesitatingly, "it was."

She was doubtfully pondering how to treat this too reflective child. She at last concluded that, so far as circumstances permitted, she would be honest and candid with one who entered into her difficulties like an aged friend. "There is going to be another in our family soon," she hesitatingly remarked. "How?" "There is going to be another baby." "What!" The boy jumped up wildly.

"As you command," he began hesitatingly; but she swiftly interrupted with the question, "Do you come from Pelusium, and are you going directly home?" "I did not heed the storm on account of Myrtilus's illness," he answered quietly, "and if you demand it, I will return home at once; but first let me make one more entreaty, which will be pleasing also to the gods."

He came forward hesitatingly. "Salaam, sahib," he said humbly. "Oh, I say, can you speak English?" asked Smith eagerly, suspecting that the man was a Hindu. "Speak English very fine, sahib," replied the man, with a smile. "Thank goodness! Well, now, is there a smith in the village? You know what I mean: a blacksmith, a man who makes iron things?"

If you knew how anxious I was about Zillah " "Ugh!" she interrupted, with an expression of strong disgust, "I might have been a horrid, blackened thing if it hadn't been for thee." "Oh, hush!" I cried; "I merely threw a couple of pails of water on the roof. Please say no more about it." She passed her hand over her brow, and said hesitatingly: "I'm so puzzled I feel so strangely.

If ye send me rot, I'll skin ye. Good luck!" And he turned to glance over his shoulder at a copy-boy who had come in with a handful of slips, proofs and the thousand matters of the editor's daily grind. "Well, then, good-by, Mr. Fergus," said the boy, hesitatingly. "Oh, eh? Are ye there still? Sure. Good-by, boy, good-by an' good luck to ye!" And plunged back into his work.

But she'd asked her party before she knew I was arriving." "Oh, as to that " Ide drew a deep breath of relief. "I can understand that it must have been a disappointment not to have you to herself just at first. But, after all, you were among old friends or their children: the Gileses and Fresbies and little Charlotte Wynn." He paused a moment before the last name, and scrutinized her hesitatingly.