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He rides up to this establishment like some general. How is it he doesn't beat you yet? The thieves they like that. And he plucks you, have no fear?" "More than I want to, I won't give," meekly answers Tamara and bites the thread in two. "Now that is just what I wonder at. With your mind, your beauty, I would put such rings-around-a-rosie about a guest like that, that he'd take me and set me up.
If you venture to express a doubt of the accuracy of any of these portraitures, the theatrical young gentleman assures you, with a haughty smile, that it always has been done in that way, and he supposes they are not going to change it at this time of day to please you; to which, of course, you meekly reply that you suppose not.
He certainly was a very good-looking man, well set up, with that quiet air which bespeaks good breeding. "Have you seen the ship on the other side?" she asked, after a pause; "a sailing ship. You cannot see it from here." As she spoke she made a little movement, as if to show him the spot from whence the ship was visible. Cartoner followed her meekly, and Mr.
"The French, father?" I said, feeling quite abashed. "Ay, my boy, or anyone else. These uniforms look very attractive, but there's a great deal of vanity in them, and we are too busy to give way to that." "Yes, father," I said meekly, and as I said it I thought about something else. "There, you lads can go now. Thank you for helping to arrange my little armoury."
Then she laughed and lay back luxuriously. "I was afraid you wouldn't know where to look for the bread," she explained meekly, and turned her face away from the sunlight and took a nap. Kate finished with her hair rather abruptly, considering the leisurely manner in which she had been brushing it.
"Is it worth while for such a little way?" "Get in," Peter said again, and Jan meekly got in. "I was just coming to see you, and I could have taken you anywhere you wanted to go, if only you'd waited. Why didn't you take a gharri?" "Since you must know," Jan said, smiling at the angry Peter, "I went out because I wanted to go out. And I walked because I wanted to walk."
"Yes," said Howard, "that is perfectly true! Christianity was at first the most new, radical, original, anarchical force in the world it was the purest individualism; it was meant to over-ride all human combinations by simply disregarding them; it was not a social reform, and still less a political reform; it was a new spirit, and it was meant to create a new kind of fellowship, the mere existence of which would do away with the need for organisation; it broke meekly, like water, through all human partitions, and I suppose it has been tamed."
Her answer was so low-toned that he had to bend his head down close to her lips to hear her murmur: "I love you dearly. But I love you too well to ruin your prospects. You must not bind yourself to me just yet, dear Thurston," and meekly and gently she sought to slip from his embrace. But he slid his arm around her lightly, bending his head and whispering eagerly: "What mean you, Marian?
To do him justice he took the chastisement meekly, and even insisted that I was burying a remarkable talent, sometimes going to the magnanimous extreme of offering to introduce me to his publisher, and to speak a good word for me to the editors of certain magazines with whom he maintained a brisk correspondence, not infrequently of a querulous nature.
There she lay, tranquil as a sleeping child, with a calm, holy smile breaking through the shadows, and her little hands meekly folded over the gossamer lace on her bosom.
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