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"Ah, if I could steal now your heart al-so! But I've stolen, I fear, only your confidenze!" Between the words she loosed one hand, stooped and lifted the flower. Each tried to press it to the other's bosom, but it was Anna who yielded. "I'd make you take it," she protested as Flora pinned it on, "if I hadn't thrown it away."
Miss Fairweather was a sensible young woman, although amazingly beautiful, and she took a most extraordinary view of the situation. "It isn't right, it isn't fair, it isn't playing the game, Dick," she protested, resolutely releasing herself from his embrace after listening for a long time, with throbbing heart, to his song of triumph. "Poor, dear Mr. Bingle!
He had never considered the prow of a gondola a very fitting situation for the flag he had fought for, but perhaps the Pollys knew best. "No, indeed," said May. "We are going to have something ever so much prettier than that." "Ah, Polly! There's nothing prettier than the Stars and Stripes," the Colonel protested. "May means more original," said Pauline. "She has had one of her happy thoughts."
I'll dictate, and you can scribble it down. 'Dear Mrs. Froplinson thank you and your husband so much for the very pretty calendar you sent us. It was very good of you to think of us." "You can't possibly say that," said Janetta, laying down her pen. "It's what I always do say, and what every one says to me," protested Egbert.
"Well, I was practically certain that I had seen one in the Zoo, in the reptile house, but I have just learnt that it is my lucky month stone. Naturally I want to get one." The coffee came and we settled down to commerce. "I was just going to ask you," said my solicitor "have you any money lying idle at the bank? Because if so " "Whatever else it is doing, it isn't lying idle," I protested.
“It all answered the questions that we had been asking,” Jack replied, promptly, though, it must be admitted, rather evasively. “This is your understanding, too, Mr. Hastings?” demanded the officer. “Surely,” murmured Hal. “You, Mr. Somers?” “I—I haven’t had so much fun since the gasoline engine blew up,” protested Eph.
After dinner I asked her why she tolerated the fellow. She flushed painfully and murmured that times were hard. I protested that she could easily get another boarder to replace him, but she said Axel Larson had been there so long nearly two years and was comfortable, and knew the ways of the house, and it would be very discourteous to ask him to go.
We were pursuing the German fleet when two of our vessels crashed in the fog. That's how we happen to be here now." "But I tell you that is not possible," protested the German. "It may not have been considered possible," returned Frank, "but it's a fact, all the same." "You mean, then, that the official report is not true." "Well, that's my personal opinion of it," Frank admitted.
James Melville, who was the first to rise and address the House, protested against their falling to work to 'big up' bishops, whom all their days they had been 'dinging doun. Andrew Melville followed, and supported his nephew's counsel in his own vehement manner.
He praised it warmly, but he said that it would be hard to find a woman to do the part of Salome. "That is the principal part in the piece now, you know," he added. "I don't see how," Maxwell protested. "It seems to me that her character throws Haxard's into greater relief than before, and gives it more prominence." "You've made the love-business too strong, I think.
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