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We couldn't agree in certain things regarding the Bansemer affair, that's all. I told him to go to the devil, or words to that effect." "Something loose about your testimony, I believe, wasn't there?" "Oh, the whole thing doesn't amount to a whoop. I'm trying to get Rosie another job. She oughtn't to write in there with that guy." "Well, you're twenty-one. Why don't you open an office of your own?
'Wush I may die ef I tells a soul, says I. "Dave look' at me des lack he wuz lookin' thoo me en 'way on de yuther side er me, en sezee: "'Did yer knowed I wuz turnin' ter a ham, Julius? "I tried ter 'suade Dave dat dat wuz all foolishness, en dat he oughtn't ter be talkin' dat-a-way, hit wa'n't right.
Maria Dolores all at once looked sober. "Oughtn't you to be careful," she said, "to give her no excuse at all to love you, if you are really resolved never to ask her to be your wife?" "That is exactly what I have given her," answered John, "no excuse at all.
"We oughtn't to have said that you couldn't have any of our lunch," said Sarah Ketchum. "We didn't really mean it," said Clara. "When lunch-time came we would have given you lots of good things." "That's so," said Dick. "Sarah told us an hour ago that she meant to give you her snow-ball cake because she felt compuncted." By this time Bob had approached the cow.
Not to be flurried was the kind of consistency he wanted, just as consistency was the kind of dignity. And why couldn't he have dignity when he had so much of the good conscience, as it were, on which such advantages rested? He had done nothing he oughtn't he had in fact done nothing at all.
You tell Mr. Newbury that!" The little shabby creature had in a moment dropped her shabbiness. Her slight frame stiffened as she sat; the passion in the blue eyes which sought Marcia's was sincere and threatening. Marcia, startled, could only say again in a vaguely troubled voice: "I am sure nobody wants to harm Mr. Betts, and indeed, indeed, you oughtn't to talk to me like this, Mrs. Betts.
He brought the car to a halt beside one of the small wooden shelters built for the convenience of passengers. "You forgive me you understand, Janet?" he asked. "Sometimes I don't know what to think," she said, and suddenly clung to him. "I I forgive you. I oughtn't to suspect such things, but I'm like that. I'm horrid and I can't help it." She began to unbutton the coat he had bought for her.
The abrupt realisation that once again she had escaped death by so narrow a margin shook her for a moment, and she swayed a little where she stood, while her face went suddenly very white. In an instant his arm was round her, supporting her. "I oughtn't to have told you," he said hastily. "Forgive me. You're tired and, merciful heavens! child, you're half-frozen.
Winn didn't admit it, because it seemed to him as if it had been extremely amusing for Mrs. Bouncing, a great deal more amusing than it had any right to be. "Perhaps you think she oughtn't to have married for money," Mr. Bouncing went on when he had finished the hot milk and Winn still sat there saying nothing. "But you're quite wrong if you do.
"Keep on giving him a little water." He went away toward the house while I continued my task, and Morgan kept up a running commentary upon the man's appearance. "Pity, too," he said. "Master oughtn't to have let them cheat him though, like this. Fine working chap. See what a broad, deep chest he's got, Master George. Don't think much of his legs, but he's got wonderful arms. My!
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