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And he backed away, smiling, saying placatively: "No offense intended, Harlan. I was merely curious on Barbara's account." He mounted his horse, urged it along the corral fence, and sent back a smiling: "So-long." Motionless, still standing where he had stood when Haydon climbed on his horse, Harlan watched while the man rode the short distance to the house.
Ensued the moment of strangers meeting: invisible antennae extended and touched; at the contact, Cora's drew in, and she looked upon him without graciousness. "I just called," he said placatively, smiling as if some humour lurked in his intention, "to ask how your father is. I heard downtown he wasn't getting along quite so well."
By George! it's discouraging!" "I don't understand about getting about getting bigger," said Bibbs, bringing his gaze down to look at his father placatively. "I don't see just why " "WHAT?" Sheridan leaned forward, resting his hands upon the desk and staring across it incredulously at his son. "I don't understand exactly what you want it all bigger for?"
He would have said so because he feared to say otherwise; and the truth is that he never consciously looked at the Eye disrespectfully. He would have been alarmed if he thought the Eye had any way of finding out how he really felt about it. When not off his guard, he always looked at it placatively.
"Walter, let's dance just once more," Alice said, touching his arm placatively. "I thought well, perhaps we might go home then." But Walter's expression was that of a person upon whom an outrage has just been perpetrated. "No," he said. "We've stayed THIS long, I'm goin' to wait and see what they got to eat. And you look here!" He turned upon her angrily. "Don't you ever do that again!"
"It's a second-hand tin Lizzie," said Walter. "D'you know what that means? It means a flivver." "Yes, Walter." "Got 'ny 'bjections?" "Why, no, dear," she said, placatively. "Is it yours, Walter? Have you bought it?" "Me?" he laughed. "I couldn't buy a used wheelbarrow. I rent this sometimes when I'm goin' out among 'em. Costs me seventy-five cents and the price o' the gas."
Baxter said, timidly. "Genesis thinks he heard the little Kirsted girl telling Jane she had plenty of money for carfare. He thinks they went somewhere on a street-car. I thought maybe you noticed wheth " "I told you I did not." "All right," she said, placatively. "I didn't mean to bother you, dear." Following this there was a silence; but no sound of receding footsteps indicated Mrs.
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