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Lofton was yet wondering what Jenny could want with fifty dollars, a servant came and told him that she had just heard from a neighbor who came up a little while before from the landing, that he had seen Jenny go on board of a steamboat that was on its way to New York. "It can't be so," quickly answered Mr. Lofton. "Mr. Jones said, positively, that it was her." "Tell Henry to go to Mr.
As he entered the house with Evan I positively did not know him, for he has shaved off his mustache and queer little pussy-cat whiskers, and with them has gone his "pudgyness." He is really a very fine-looking man, and his features are developed by the shaving process in an unexpected way.
By noon the streets in the vicinity of the Plaza were filled with strange, rough-looking men, undeniably labourers. "Who are they?" demanded King, as they rode past a particularly sullen, forbidding crowd at the corner below the city hail. "There's a strike on among the men who are building the railroad," said Hobbs. "Ugly looking crowd, eh?" "A strike? 'Gad, it's positively homelike."
She was so positively wedded to women's rights in general, and to her own rights in particular, that it was improbable that she should ever succumb to any man; and where would be the man brave enough to make the effort?
"She hasn't the least idea what the world is like." "Don't you be too sure of that, my dear; you don't understand yet what a woman feels and knows. You think she only sees and thinks what she is told. The conceit of men is most amusing about this. Evelyn is deeper than you think. The discrimination of that child sometimes positively frightens me how she sees into things.
Yet he did not wish to make any show of force until he knew positively that his men were all at their stations, and that the Little Peace Maker was near at hand. He must be in a position to use force before playing his last card, and he had not as yet heard from "Specs."
I cannot tell you if you will succeed in your end, and I think the methods you are adopting wicked and shameful. But whether you succeed or not, your fate also will be what my fate is to love a person who is not only indifferent to you but who positively dislikes you, and reserves all her secret heart for another man, and I know no greater penalty than is to be found in that daily misery."
"I did not think one of my children would be so disobedient," he said, in pained accents. "Papa, you never said I shouldn't go to Sankaty Lighthouse," she muttered. "I never gave you leave to go, and I have told you positively, more than once, that you must not go to any distance from the house without express permission.
She stood gracefully, her hands lightly clasped before her, and the added excitement of this particular occasion gave a flush to her cheek and a sparkle to her blue eyes that made her positively bewitching. And then she sang the foolish little song, "Beware," just as she had sung it over the telephone, coquettishly, but without artificiality or forced effect.
You may easily believe, my dear children, that this discovery in no way tended to strengthen the bonds which held me to the Romish church, nor to confirm me in their faith. Still, however, I was dissatisfied, and still longed to know positively from whence the priests had derived their vain system.
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