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"They say the poor man is haunted by the fear that he will die during a general election, and that his obituary notices will be seriously curtailed by the space taken up by the election results. The curse of our party system, from his point of view, is that it takes up so much room in the press." The Archdeacon smiled indulgently.

He told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the first pair of gloves, a man's, he said that Pierre could not know their meaning but must keep them.

The relief from suspense was almost too great, and I nearly jumped down his throat, so, after all, it would have been my own fault if the Dragon had eaten me. "I should adore it!" I said. "My dear!" protested Mrs. Norton, indulgently. "One adores Heavenly Beings." "I'm not sure a motor-car isn't a heavenly being," said I, "though perhaps without capitals."

Because her old surgeon friend, Sir Joshua Oldfield, now and then took her out to dinner, I considered she was leading a cheerful if not a merry life. I smiled indulgently at Lola's devotion to the cats and congratulated her on having found another means whereby to beguile the tedium vitae which is the arch-enemy of content. "I wish I could find such a means myself," said I.

The District Attorney smiled indulgently at the prisoner and at the men about him, but they were watching the prisoner. "That man there," said Barrow, pointing with one gaunt hand at the boy attorney, "told you I had no part or parcel in this city or in this world; that I belonged to the past; that I had ought to be dead. Now that's not so.

When people let their front gate hang on one hinge you know what that means." After gazing again at the group at the court, the youngest member of the corps said, "Well, he's a good tennis player anyhow." The others smiled indulgently. "Oh, yes, my dear, he's a good tennis player." One day Hollanden said, in greeting, to Hawker, "Well, he's gone." "Who?" asked Hawker. "Why, Oglethorpe, of course.

"Besides, in to-morrow's paper I shall read all about what the handsome rector of St. Antipas said, in his handsome voice, to his handsome hearers " He had frowned at first, but now smiled indulgently, as they sat down to luncheon. "You will have your joke about my appearance, Nance! That reminds me that poor romantic little Mrs. Eversley sister of Mrs.

Tredgold smiled indulgently and said they would see. Messrs. Stobell and Chalk, after a final glance at the map and a final perusal of the instructions at the back, took their departure. "It's like a dream," said the latter gentleman, as they walked down the High Street. "That Vickers girl ud like more dreams o' the same sort," said Mr. Stobell, as he thrust his hand in his empty pocket.

If I've made the difference for you, I must think of the difference." "Then what, darling," he indulgently asked, "DO you think?" "That's just what I don't yet know. But I must find out. We must think together as we've always thought. What I mean," she went on after a moment, "is that it strikes me that I ought to at least offer you some alternative. I ought to have worked one out for you."

He thought he laughed indulgently at the folly of youth. She thought his laugh the most contemptuous, the cruelest sound in the world. "He doesn't deserve that I should tell him about Him," she thought, "and I won't. I don't care!" "No, no," he said, "no, no, no. The home is the place for girls. The safe quiet shelter of the home.