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Yellett folded her arms and looked at her questioner with something of a challenging mien. "What a pity! I’ve been so interested in the quotations I’ve heard you make from it." "What’s the matter with ’em?" she demanded, pride and apprehension equally commingled. Judith Rodney rushed to the rescue: "Nothing is the matter with them, Mrs.
But at that instant the portière was raised, and with rapid, hurrying footsteps Katerina Ivanovna came in, holding out both hands to Alyosha with a radiant smile of delight. At the same instant a servant brought in two lighted candles and set them on the table. “Thank God! At last you have come too! I’ve been simply praying for you all day! Sit down.”
Middleton’s good graces; but his discomfiture was soon removed by his saying, "Boy, don’t take what I’ve said in high dudgeon. Folks allus see the roughest side of me first; I’m a friend to you, and allus will be as long as you do well." Then chancing to think his guests were hungry, he called out, "Saints and angels! Why don’t you bring in supper, you lazy bones thar in the kitchen? Do you hear?"
Frances told her to come again, whenever she was lonesome or wanted advice about anything. Lena replied that she did n’t believe she would ever get lonesome in Black Hawk. She lingered at the kitchen door and begged Ántonia to come and see her often. “I’ve got a room of my own at Mrs. Thomas’s, with a carpet.” Tony shuffled uneasily in her cloth slippers. “I’ll come sometime, but Mrs.
I shan’t budge an inch till I’ve had my dinner; besides, I want to see Mr. Wilmot." Julia saw that she must submit to the mortification of seeing her father at Mrs. Crane’s dinner table, and with a beating heart she heard the bell summon them to the dining room. Mrs. Carrington did not appear—her nerves had received too great a shock—and for that Julia was thankful. Dr.
Suppose you allow yourself to be convinced?” And the poor fellow grinned: it couldn’t be called a smile. “Why, really, I’ll look into it. I’ve considered the point though, not that I’m sure I could choose.
They were so crumpled and so short that he looked as though he had grown out of them like a boy. “I am Alexey Karamazov,” Alyosha began in reply. “I quite understand that, sir,” the gentleman snapped out at once to assure him that he knew who he was already. “I am Captain Snegiryov, sir, but I am still desirous to know precisely what has led you—” “Oh, I’ve come for nothing special.
Miss Carmichael’s air of perfect composure seemed a trifle out of tune with her surroundings; the nice elevation of eyebrow, the slightly questioning curl of the lip as she, for the first time apparently, became aware of the man opposite, seemed to demand a prim drawing-room rather than the atmosphere of the slouching eating-house. "Well, really, I’ve hardly had a chance of finding out."
I looked into his eyes and he looked into mine, and he understood it all and he took it—he carried off my money!” “That’s true, Katya,” Mitya roared suddenly, “I looked into your eyes and I knew that you were dishonoring me, and yet I took your money. Despise me as a scoundrel, despise me, all of you! I’ve deserved it!”
“The signal, ’Come up—rush!’” broke in Hal, with an odd smile. “Right-o,” nodded Jack Benson. “How on earth did you know what the signal was, Hastings?” demanded Mr. Farnum. “Why, sir, I’ve been sitting so that I could see Jack’s arm. I’ve been reading, from the motions of his right arm, the dots and dashes of the Morse telegraph alphabet.”
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