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"Why this sudden change from years of neglecting your only father?" "I'm going to be on the spot in case anything happens next door." "Indeed!" said the doctor drily. When Teddy France, bidding Doris a formal goodnight, whispered "to-morrow" he had in mind a certain reception at the house of a mutual acquaintance, and he went home looking forward to meeting her there with hopes irrepressible.

I could hear the voice that, speaking to me, was always tender with pity yet not pity enough to wound: I could see the peculiar smile just creeping round his grave mouth that irrepressible smile, indicating the atmosphere of thorough heart-cheerfulness, which ripens all the fruits of a noble nature, and without which the very noblest has about it something unwholesome, blank, and cold.

He was face to face with one of those irrepressible conflicts between nations and races toward which a policy of repression and compromise can be employed but for a short time. The English were bent upon opening the West Indies and Spanish America, the Spanish government equally bent upon obstructing them.

These reflections continued to haunt and oppress me, by night and day, and life itself seemed a bitter burden in that interval of rebellious agony, and in that terrible seclusion, where luxury itself became an additional engine of torture. Days passed, alternately of leaden apathy and bitter gloom, varied by irrepressible paroxysms of despair.

Versed as thou art with all the customs of the Vrishnis in battle, do thou, O Suta, never again fly from the field as thou hast done! What will the irrepressible Madhava, the elder brother of Gada, say to me when he heareth that I have left the field of battle in bewilderment or that I have been struck on the back a run-away from the combat!

They found themselves in a narrow passage, with stained walls, worn oil-cloth, and a smell of meat, onions, and smoke. "Oh!" exclaimed Claudia, in irrepressible disgust. "You will get used to these little inconveniences after a while, my dear," said his lordship. A man with a greasy white apron and a soiled napkin approached them and bowed.

The name "Maori" is that which these aborigines gave themselves. If there were any human beings upon these islands when the Maoris first arrived, they doubtless fell a prey to the cannibalistic habits of the newcomers, whose insatiable appetite for human flesh was irrepressible.

The emotion of the figure, in giving evidence of its materiality, had, more than all the signs of his master, contributed to allay the agitation of the old negro. When therefore Gerald, urged by his irrepressible curiosity, in a whisper declared his intention to penetrate to the rear of the house, he was enabled to answer. "For Gorramity's sake, Massa Geral, nebber go dare.

The visitors grouped themselves round the big box stove that was stuffed with blazing hardwood. "Lived here long, Mr. Manson?" hazarded Riggs, stretching his thin fingers to the heat. "All my life, gentlemen, and I don't want anything else." "You haven't been in jail for that time?" put in the irrepressible Stoughton. The big man relaxed to a smile.

While absolutely certain that Persis was aware of his aspiration, the thought of expressing it, of making a formal offer, was distinctly terrifying. And moreover there was a disagreeable preliminary that must receive attention, the confession of another of those misdemeanors of his past, as irrepressible a brood as hounded poor Macbeth.