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If, as yet, he had not been permitted to go where he wanted to go, he at least had been instructed where not to go and what not to do; and he was as docile as he was dogged, understanding how much longer it takes to shuffle in by way of the mews and the back door than to sit on the front steps and wait politely for somebody to unchain the front door.
Then, very politely, tell the Emperor, or whatever he calls himself, that I would like him to come here for dinner and a little talk." The two officers looked at each other, then at the commander. "Just like that?" asked Hernan. "Just like that," said the commander. The demonstration and exhibition went well as far as it had gone.
I taught her how to sing 'John Brown's Body Lies A-Smoulderin' in th' Grave, though she didn't have no more notion o' what she was singin' than a ring-tailed monkey." "How d'ye come to pick up with her?" inquired McGuffey politely. "I didn't come to pick up with her," answered Mr. Gibney. "She took a fancy to them red whiskers o' mine, and picked up with me.
She had not, however, the feeling that she had a wrong to make reparation for, but that she must again politely visit some one to whom she had become a stranger for no valid reason. She chose the way through the chestnut avenue. There the heat was particularly oppressive that day.
"Ford, don't you think we can find our way across the green without any help from the ladies?" "I am pondering that matter. What do you say, Frank?" "We must get out of it if we can politely. I don't just see how we'll do it." "Do it? Why, we'll all wait for Dick Lee." Mrs.
He said to her: 'Don't do that again. Do you mind? as politely as he could. She looked up, surprised. 'I beg your pardon, Mr Ottley? 'Don't do that again. 'Don't do what? What did I do? 'Why, I asked you to trim the boat. 'What did I do? I merely sat down. He didn't like to say that she shouldn't sit down with a bump, and took his place.
Not in the least, said the dean politely. No, no, said Stephen, smiling, I mean Yes, yes; I see, said the dean quickly, I quite catch the point: DETAIN. He thrust forward his under jaw and uttered a dry short cough. To return to the lamp, he said, the feeding of it is also a nice problem.
It is hopeless to explain to a traveller who has been 'ohayoed' into half-a-dozen shops and 'sayonaraed' out of half-a-dozen more and politely cheated in each one, that the Japanese is an Oriental, and, therefore, embarrassingly economical of the truth. 'That's his politeness, says the traveller. 'He does not wish to hurt your feelings.
The man on guard would have opened the door, but when I went to enter, a major-domo who was standing by, muttering with two or three of his kind, hastened forward and stopped me. 'Your business, Monsieur, if you please? he said inquisitively; while I wondered why he and the others looked at me so strangely. 'I am M. de Berault, I answered sharply. 'I have the entree. He bowed politely enough.
Edmund, who had not the slightest idea who the Commissionsrath was, took out his cigar-case and offered it politely to this desperate person, saying that he could vouch for both the quality and the drawing powers of his cigars, although he had not got them from Hamburg, but out of a shop in Frederick Street.
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