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She thought of the treasure she possessed in the affections of her lord; of his accomplishments, surpassing those of his contemporaries, his genius, his devotion to her. Soon she thought, that all she possessed in the world, except him, might well be spared, nay, given with delight, a propitiatory offering, to secure the supreme good she retained in him.
" loses by about half a second," continued Missou. "If Doc hadn't roped its hind laig " "Have some cigars, boys. I brought a box back with me." Reddy tossed a handful on the table, where they continued to lie unnoticed. " there's no telling what would have happened. As 'twas the old man got off with a " "Y'u bet, they're good cigars all right," broke in the propitiatory Reddy.
There you have a chief possibility of offence. He is quite unable to pretend any awe for what he considers the spiritual monstrosities established by that undignified gathering. He makes no attempt to be obscure or propitiatory in this connection.
The foreigners of the railway remained shut up within the yards. They were no longer anxious to shoot poor people. He cursed the foreigners; then he reported Montero's entry and the rumours of the town. The poor were going to be made rich now. That was very good. More he did not know, and, breaking into propitiatory smiles, he intimated that he was hungry and thirsty.
But not a cent do you get out me. And, if you want your shoes shined, you can pay for it yourself in the basement. If you leave them outside your door, I'll instruct the floor-waiter to throw them down the air-shaft. Do you understand? Good! Now, is there anything more you want to ask?" Archie smiled a propitiatory smile.
He turns a face of white wrath on me, of accusation, and for the moment of unexpected force. "This is your doing," he says. "You have done this to mock me. He of all men!" For a moment speech fails him, then; "You you have done this to mock me." I try to explain very quickly. My tone is almost propitiatory. "I never thought of it until now.
Ay, that's true; when the wine is in, the wit is out." Said Rosa, "Well, if he should happen to be so foolish, pray think of ME; of all we owe him, and how much I love him, and ought to love him." She then bestowed a propitiatory kiss, and ran off to dress for dinner; it was a much longer operation to-day than usual. Dr. Staines was punctual. Mr. Lusignan commented favorably on that.
'We are short to-night! cries the woman, with a propitiatory laugh. 'Short and snappish we are! But we're out of sorts for want of a smoke. We've got the all-overs, haven't us, deary? But this is the place to cure 'em in; this is the place where the all- overs is smoked off. 'You may make ready, then, replies the visitor, 'as soon as you like.
She made no further propitiatory efforts, but sat and stared in simple blankness at the country, which seemed to increase in loveliness at each new point of view.
Now, they put on their best clothes, and precipitated themselves into the Manor grounds like a flock of sheep seeking land on which to graze, all wearing their sweetest propitiatory smirk all gushing forth their admiration of "that darling Lady Errington" all behaving themselves in the exceptionally funny manner that county people affect, people who are considered somebodies in the small villages their big houses dominate, but who, when brought to reside in London, become less than the minnows in a vast ocean.
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