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And now let us have some dinner." But I protested emphatically against the summary disposition of the matter of the coat, deeming my mission indeed but half executed, and remarked that Stuart would certainly ask how the coat fitted, and that I should take it as a personal favour if he would put it on.
"Helen, dear," she said, "I scarcely know how to begin to talk to you about your extraordinary " "I wish," interrupted Helen, "that you would not begin to talk to me about it at all." "But you must explain to me what in the world is the matter," protested the other. "I cannot possibly explain to you," was the abrupt reply.
The interview will appear in the papers tomorrow and in twenty-four hours the news will have spread among the Bugis that you're not their Messiah after all." "But I'm not Dutch," I protested. "All my people were Welsh and English. The only connection I have with Holland is that the house in which I was born is on a street that has a Dutch name." "Fine!" he exclaimed enthusiastically.
I shouldn't care if you burned it as firewood." "But you must care," Claire protested, feeling that he was losing interest in his work because of her. "I don't see why. I haven't any real assurance as to its value. It may be good, more likely it isn't; in any case, I have turned it loose to shift for itself. It can survive or not; its doing so is immaterial.
But look here, Greenacre, what's all this rot about Lord Bolsover?" "My dear Gammon," protested the other. "I really can't allow you to speak in that way. I make all allowance for the hour and the circumstances, but when it comes to the death of a dear friend " "How the devil come you to be his friend, or he yours?" shouted Gammon in comical exasperation.
Falling upon his knees before a crucifix, in the midst of the assembly, he prayed that God would keep him perpetually in the same mind, and protested that he would never call himself master of those who denied the Lord God.
Manuel at last set down his cup and, looking up with a flash, as of sudden inspiration, suggested: "But doubtless you will be stopping in Monte Carlo a day or two? Possibly you will do me the honor of inspecting the boat?" The other protested that his friend was too good. He regarded himself highly honored. He would be most charmed.
"He is not only that," Pamela continued, "but he is a man with large principles and great ideas." "Principles!" Lutchester murmured. "Of course, you don't like him," Pamela went on, "and I don't wonder at it. He is thoroughly German, isn't he?" "Almost prejudiced, I'm afraid," Lutchester assented. "Don't be silly," Pamela protested.
On the second day he sat up in a reclining chair, and announced that twelve hours more would see him out of hospital. Doctors and nurses protested that he would throw himself back into a fever, and the consequences might be serious; but as at that very time the danger of the town being taken was imminent, arguments for prudence lost their force.
"But," Gray protested, in even a milder voice, "you probably wouldn't want to wear expensive jewelry in the garden." Miss Briskow held her hand high, admiring the play of light upon the facets of the splendid jewel, then she voiced a complacent thought that has been variously expressed by other women better circumstanced than she "If we can afford to buy 'em, I reckon we can afford to wear 'em."
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