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"Then you must let me see you safely in it," he said; and as he insisted that it was time for him to go she could no longer refuse. The door closed behind them after many jocular words of farewell from Merton, and husband and wife were left to finish their evening in privacy. "Is it far to your home?" asked Eden. "I live in Marylebone," she replied, giving a rather wide address.
The Protestant missions are regarded as centres of treason and enmity to French authority. Had they insisted, with the British Government of a bygone day, in saving the island for the Malagasy, they would have succeeded. Our commerce has also had to suffer, for the French instruct the natives that they must only buy articles of French manufacture.
She promoted him to the use of his proper Christian name, and called him Roger. The duke had grown calm once more, and read a four-penny-half-penny magazine with every appearance of absorbed interest. In the motor car which carried them from Ricksborough station to the court, Pollyooly insisted on having the Lump on her knee.
She and Gideon spoke the language like natives or nearly. She was vain of Gideon's un-American looks, and cross with him when, on their rare and brief visits to New York, he insisted that he liked American tailoring and American-made shoes. Once or twice, soon after his father's death, he had said, casually, "You didn't like Winnebago, did you? Living in it, I mean." "Like it!"
We had been sitting late at one of these festivals, and, as it was getting toward morning, I thought it wise, as far as I was concerned, to be moving homeward before the sun rose. Seeing my intention to withdraw, he insisted on driving me in his brougham to my lodgings.
He made a deprecatory gesture. "I don't know what excuse to offer for troubling you. Gordon insisted on sending me." "You fancy I require one from you?" Nasmyth looked at her with heavy eyes. "No," he answered, "it is evident that you don't. After all, perhaps I shouldn't have wished to make any excuse.
She said, 'And if I catch you going ashore without orders there'll be trouble understand, Captain Munster?" "Who in hell's telling this, you or me?" the skipper demanded wrathfully. "Well, she did, didn't she?" insisted the mate. "Yes, she did, if you want to make so sure of it.
I would rather be present. I would rather see, for then I should know to a certainty that it was gone," she insisted. "Can you not trust me?" "No, no, I cannot trust anyone when my head is in danger of the guillotine." "I tell you there are no guillotines in England." "The other thing, then, which is worse, because it is more disgraceful. Hanging by the neck until one is dead! Ugh!
When he got up he was lame. You all may have noticed that Mr. Prescott limped a bit yesterday?" "Yes; he did," confirmed Frank Thompson. "And his hand was hurt, too -I know that," insisted Laura. "For he escorted me to Miss Bond's, and then home. When we got there, I asked my father, who is a doctor, to take Dick into the office.
He found himself wondering what the Boy would say if he knew he had brought him in by the front door instead of by the window; he was sure he would have insisted on the mode of entrance he so much preferred had he been conscious, and felt as if he had taken a disloyal advantage of the Boy's helpless condition.
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