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The supreme class was to keep itself pure, and avoid all taint of darker blood, shutting its eyes to the fact that some of its most famous heroes had been born of such left-handed marriages as that of Robert of Normandy with the tanner's daughter of Falaise.
He caught her eyes and laughed in protest. "Don't you begin on me. I refuse to be doctored. The last attempt to cure my headache resulted in this " and he held up his injured hand. "Then I'd better not suggest an aspirin for fear you'd go and break your leg?" "No, don't. It's a gorgeous day, though, simply a crime to stay indoors. Will you chance left-handed driving and come for a spin?"
"Ah, now," she said, "you imagine you are carrying the war into the enemy's country. But I don't at all appreciate a remark like that. I don't know but I dislike it even more than I do your compliments, which is saying a good deal." "I assure you," said Morris, stiffly, "that I have not intended to pay any compliments. I am not a man who pays compliments." "Not even left-handed ones?"
The mother dying; the father long since lost in the dreary throng of forgotten failures; not a relation in the world who could possibly acknowledge her left-handed relationship to one of the most powerful families in Europe: what was left her but the veil? Instinctively he perceived that she must be intended for this. And yet, to put that creature into a convent!
"Take your hand away from your gun, you albino! I'll blow your head off left-handed if you pull! Will you get out of this town to-night? If you can't drop a man in the saddle at two hundred and fifty yards, what do you think you'd look like after a break with me? Go back to the whelp that hired you, and tell him when he wants a friend of mine to send a man that can shoot.
A left-handed boy is all right in the world. Your wife has twins then think of the woman, the one ewe lamb of 'the poor wanton. If you do not tell her, you will have her here making a noise, as you say. I wonder she has not been here on your door-step." "I had a letter from her to-day. She is coming-ah, mon dieu!" "When?" There was a tap at the window. The Notary started.
Oh, how Vernon longed to hurl his pillow, or even any harder missile within his reach, at the saucy little fellow's head who was looking so provokingly pleased with his distress, and which the presence of the squire alone restrained him from making a left-handed attempt at, for his right was, as we before mentioned, disabled for the present by his late accident.
"Tell you what I'll give you some pointers on diving, and you can show me how to make a golf ball behave. Next to Norman Brandon, I've got the most vicious hook in captivity and Norm can't help himself. He's left-handed, you know, and, being a southpaw, he's naturally wild. He slices all his woods and hooks all his irons. I'm consistent, anyway I hook everything, even my putts." "It's a bargain!
A great many of the inventions we now consider necessary would have been utterly lost to us if some men's brains had not been a little addled. A woman would have set them straight, and that would have been the end. That is the reason so few women are inventors; they have too much sense." "That is a very left-handed compliment," said the Daughter of the House.
"In your judgment, then, the revolver was fired by a left-handed person?" "That is my opinion." The coroner swelled like a turkey cock as he waved the attorney to take charge again. Lane's heart drummed fast. He did not look across the room toward the girl in the blue tailored suit. But he saw her, just as clearly as though his eyes had been fastened on her.
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