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Quayle replied, indulgently. "You are always on the side of doing the generous thing, my dear father, when you see it." Here his lordship's grasp upon the head of his walking-stick relaxed sensibly. "Thank you, Ludovic. Very pleasant thing to have one's son say to one, I must say, uncommonly pleasant." Alas! he felt himself to be slipping, slipping.

"To find out certainly, at last, how deeply you've cared for me! To see how much difference this makes to you! By Jove, I have mattered to you!" Her cordial smile was tempered now with good-nature. "George!" She laughed indulgently. "Surely you don't want me to do pathos on a downtown corner!" "You wouldn't 'do pathos' anywhere!" "Well don't you think pathos is generally rather fooling?"

"I'm not afraid for Jerry," I growled. "No chameleon will change his color. What else did she say?" "She was very much pleased at Jerry's compliment. "'Someone has taught you to be very polite, she said with a smile. "'Polite? asked Jerry. 'Merely because I was hoping you weren't flabby? "'Well, I'm not flabby, she smiled indulgently. 'I hate flabby people.

Even the low-born lasses with whom they at times consorted had scarce an eye for Barney Bill. The grapes were sour. Paul smiled indulgently on the little foible of his friend. They jogged along the highroad on this blazing and dusty day. Their bower of wicker chairs crackled in the heat. It was too hot for sustained conversation.

You indignantly disclaim the possession of nerves, he smiles indulgently, and the other teacher rides up beside you, and advises you steadily and quietly during the next succession of trotting and walking, and, conscious of not exerting yourself quite so much and of being easier, you begin to think that perhaps you have a nerve or two somewhere, and you determine to conquer them.

"I'll tell you afterwards after I find out something about 'em myself." "All right," he said, indulgently. "Keep your secrets; keep your secrets." He paused, drew musingly upon his pipe, and shook his head. "Funny the way your mother looks at things! For the matter o' that, everything's pretty funny, I expect, if you stop to think about it.

Pale asters were blowing in the sere and misty meadows between them and the harbor. "Doctors who have to be up all night waiting on sick folk don't feel very adventurous, I suppose," Anne said indulgently. "If you had had a good sleep last night, Gilbert, you'd be as ready as I am for a flight of imagination." "I did good work last night, Anne," said Gilbert quietly. "Under God, I saved a life.

Another spinster undeterred by what had happened to Miss Beam leaned fair forward, her face shining and ardent. "Mr. Kinosling, there's a question I DO wish to ask you." "My dear Miss Cosslit," Mr. Kinosling responded, again waving his hand and watching it, "I am entirely at your disposal." "WAS Joan of Arc," she asked fervently, "inspired by spirits?" He smiled indulgently. "Yes and no," he said.

"Don't talk rubbish," said the girl austerely. The new mate carefully adjusted his red necktie and smiled indulgently. "Well, you're the prettiest cap'n I've ever sailed under," he said. "What do they call that red cap you've got on? Tam-o'-Shanter is it?" "I don't know," said the girl shortly. "You mean you won't tell me," said the other, with a look of anger in his soft dark eyes.

I am continuously being reminded, when I do a thing thus and so, that John Cardigan does it otherwise. Your respected parent is the basis for comparison in this country, Cardigan, and I find it devilish inconvenient." He laughed indulgently and passed his cigarette-case to Bryce.