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"I take it that your business is of a kind that will not wait, and as to inconveniencing us, why, my friend and I are both doctors, and, as you are aware, no doctor expects to call any part of the twenty-four hours his own unreservedly." I had risen on the entrance of the two strangers, and now proposed to take a walk on the Embankment and return later, but the young man interrupted me.

He felt that they must despise him, and feeling that, he began to despise himself. "My own feeling about these things," said Ninian, "is perfectly simple. I believe in lust. I'm a lustful man myself, and so, I believe, is Roger!..." "No, I'm not," Roger exclaimed. "Well, I am," Ninian proceeded. "Lust is the motor force of the world...." "No, it isn't," Gilbert interrupted.

But if Mr. went into the cause under this disadvantage, he was spurred on by the consideration that in his client he was defending a friend: for they had been friends in youth, and, though long separated, the tie had never been interrupted.

"Tabby cats are such nice pets," the man interrupted, "so gentle and nice and pretty." "But I'm homely. If I was pretty maybe they wouldn't call me names." "No, dear, it isn't that. When they plague you, you scratch; and so they like to tease. If you paid no attention to the thoughtless things they said, they would soon stop teasing." "Do you really think they would?

Let us walk faster, for, to keep him waiting " Andreas here interrupted her, saying, "If I am not greatly mistaken, there is the Roman, in that open chariot, coming down the incline."

"Well," interrupted the Frenchman, "all we can do now is to wait and hope for the best." "We at least have a fighting chance," spoke up the lieutenant, "and that's more than I ever expected to have again." "It's a long time between now and nine o'clock," said Chester. "I think we all had better get some sleep. We are likely to need it before we get through." "Right," replied the lieutenant.

I'm going to try to get him to stop on the way back, if he will. All three of us will stop off at the bank Father usually stays late on Saturdays to go over the books all by himself " Further conversation was interrupted by the return of Tad. Acting upon a knowing look from Walter, Ned maintained a discreet silence on the subject.

"Ah, you cannot deceive me in that way, my son. I know something is wrong, and " "Yes, something is wrong," he interrupted with bitter vehemence. "I have been spat upon by a girl, and never until now did I realize what a fool I was to think of losing my heart to a flirt like Rose Alstine." "August, what do you mean?" "That Rose has jilted me." "I am glad of it." "Mother!"

He was about to proceed in a tone of the same invective, when the young man interrupted him, by saying, in a firm tone, "Sir Henry Lee, you have ever been thought noble Say of me what you will, but speak not of my father what the ear of a son should not endure, and which yet his arm cannot resent. To do me such wrong is to insult an unarmed man, or to beat a captive."

Pike's front door, through which Miss Wingate was disappearing. Her prompt flight had saved the day for the disconsolate lover, who cautiously rolled from under the bush again and went on with his interrupted nap. She found Mrs. Pike and Miss Prissy at home, and spent a really delightful hour in speculating and unfolding possible plans for the Pratt-Hoover nuptials.