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"You think other young men have your pert ways," retorted Sue, reddening. "My friends have manners." "Oh, I see. They let you fall out, and then politely pick you up." "Come, you are both in danger of falling out now," said the mother reprovingly. Roger went off whistling to his work, and the hired man lumbered after him. "Father," said Mrs. Atwood, "who'll go down to the river for the trunks?"
"I am afraid that you are not amusing yourself," she remarked, with some faint yet kindly note of condescension in her tone. "You are very kind," he answered, his eyebrows slightly lifted. "I certainly am not. But then I did not come here to amuse myself." "Indeed? A sense of duty brought you, perhaps?" "A sense of duty, beyond a doubt," the man assented politely.
Presently the unexpected guest was moving easily among the others, passing from group to group with hearty handshakes and happy words, at last coming face to face with Juanita Sterling. She had watched him nearing her corner, the while politely attending to Miss Leatherland's intermittent chit-cnat and vainly trying to banish from her mind the recent assertions of Miss Major.
He has turned up with a beautiful daughter at Delhi just about the prettiest girl I ever " "Je demande mills pardons, Madame!" politely cried Major Hawke, as his fair neighbor's wineglass went shivering down in a crystalline wreck. "Pas de quoi, Monsieur," suavely replied the woman whom till now he had hardly noticed.
And with one leap, he perched himself there. "What about you, my love?" asked the Little Man, turning politely to Pinocchio. "What are you going to do? Will you come with us, or do you stay here?" "I stay here," answered Pinocchio. "I want to return home, as I prefer to study and to succeed in life." "May that bring you luck!" "Pinocchio!" Lamp-Wick called out. "Listen to me.
Then the guards began to search the poultry-yard, and could find nobody there but Delicia, who, with her splendid dress and her crown of diamonds, looked such a lovely Princess that they hardly dared to speak to her. But she said to them very politely: 'Pray tell me what you are looking for here? 'Madam, they answered, 'we are sent for an insignificant little person called Delicia.
The widow folded her hands and regarded him sternly, though her voice was still politely soft. "After I had told you repeatedly that my little ones should ever be guarded from a drinking father; after you had solemnly promised me that you would never again put glass to your lips, or swallow a drop of whisky; after that very morning renewing your pledge "
The unknown cut the Gordian knot himself. He said that he must really go back or he would be late for dinner, lifted his hat politely, and departed. Katherine waited until he was out of sight, then sat down on the sand and put on her shoes and stockings. "Who on earth can he be?" she said to herself. "And where have I seen him before? There was certainly something familiar about his appearance.
One of them carried into the convent courtyard smiled as he lay on his stretcher and spoke imperfect French very politely to Englishwomen who bent over him, piteous as girls who see a wounded bird. He seemed glad to be let off slightly with only a wound in his foot which would make him limp for life; very glad to be out of all the horror of those trenches on the German side of the Yser.
The man was rather near-sighted, but seeing something familiar in the lady's features he politely raised his hat. The wax lady also raised her hat, thinking it the proper thing to do, and the man hurried away with a horrified face. Then a woman touched her arm and said: "Beg pardon, ma'am; but there's a price-mark hanging on your dress behind."
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