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"Oh, but I did!" she protested, flushing in earnest this time. "I heard you and I answered you." "Oh, yes, you answered me," he said, "as kindly and indulgently as if I had been prattling like Peggy Musgrave. I won't put up with it any longer, my chicken. Understand?" He put his hand under her chin and turned her face upwards. She quivered a little and the tears sprang to her eyes.
Aren't you ready yet to attend to these crewels, Phebe? Miss Brooks is snarling them terribly." "Phebe's really a very good girl in her way though," remarked Mrs. Hardcastle, indulgently, from her easy chair. "I will testify that she can make quite eatable cake at a pinch." Phebe secretly thought Mrs. Hardcastle ought to know.
"What was all that you started to tell us about the dry-farmers, Andy?" he asked indulgently. "All straight goods. But there's no use talking to you bone-heads. You'll set around chewing the rag and looking wise till it's too late to do anything but holler your heads off."
Grimstone, who had quite recovered his equanimity, smiled indulgently, and remarked that he "liked to see the strong assisting the weak."
Prendergast, that I don't mean to take it." The lawyer smiled indulgently. "There is one way in which it might be managed," he said. "Perhaps you can guess what it is?" A flush of color rose over the girl's face. "Don't say it, I beg of you, Mr. Prendergast. Mrs.
'Dead by the visitation of God, according to the coroner, but I should call it an 'adjustment of averages. That is a felicitous phrase. I got my facts, by-the-way, from the janitor. He is rather proud of the affair Barowsky, as we may call it." "A monster, indeed!" I exclaimed, warmly. "Oh, we mustn't misjudge our good Dr. Magnus," said Indiman, indulgently.
"Yes, that's because it sees how industrious we all are," said Lasse Frederik mischievously. "Will you be quiet!" said Pelle, hitting out at him. Ellen sat knitting some tiny socks. Her glance moved lingeringly from one to another of them, and she smiled indulgently at their chatter. They were just a lot of children! "Mother, may I have those for my doll?" asked Anna, taking up the finished sock.
When it was stolen we immediately put in motion the usual machinery for tracing stolen cars." "How about the police?" I queried. McBirney looked at me a moment I thought pityingly. "With all deference to the police," he answered indulgently, "it is the insurance companies and not the police who get cars back usually. I suppose it's natural.
But he wanted, so anxiously, the present to remain the present wanted to continue to watch her, and to hear her. She turned his head. How then could he behave otherwise than with stupidity? "La! la!" she replied, laughing indulgently, and thereby enchanting him still more; "what must your experience of life be if you suppose one gets a full meal of divine loveliness every day in the week?
"I am anything but that," said Sarah, with provoking cheerfulness. "A philosopher is a thoughtful middle-aged person who puts off enjoying life until it's too late to begin." "I hate middle-aged people," said Peter. "I am not very fond of them myself, as a rule," said Sarah, indulgently. They are just busy trying to get all they can out of the world, that's all.
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