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This tactful withdrawal did not lessen the attraction of Mrs. Maitland in Smith's eyes, and it was with real admiration in his tone that he said to Helen: "I think your mother is charming." "I have thought so," returned Helen, with assumed loftiness, "for thirty or forty years." "So long?" queried Smith, thoughtfully. "That merely goes to show how one can be deceived."
"But few are the women who could so carry a sieve of water or could even so hold it that the water would not run through at once." "How could the water be retained at all?" queried Brinnaria the practical. "What is the explanation?" Truttidius wrinkled up his face in deep thought. "You have seen wine spilled at dinner," he illustrated.
"You are not serious?" he queried at last. "Indeed I am. I'm actually engaged now, at this moment and we propose to get married before Christmas." "But it is impossible! Giusto Cielo! But impossible!" reiterated the old man. "Mees Quentin, you cannot haf understood. Perhaps, in my anxiety that you should strain every nerve to improve, I haf not praised you enough and so you haf not understood.
March queried impartially who they were, where they met, and how, and just when they were going to be married; and March consented, in his personal immunity from their romance, to let it go on under his eyes without protest.
For a very great time, I pondered this matter; but, finally, with a certain sense of the futility of my puzzlings, I let my thoughts wander to other things. I grew to wondering, how much longer the house would stand. Also, I queried, to myself, whether I should be doomed to stay, bodiless, upon the earth, through the dark-time that I knew was coming.
That night, when the company were gone and all around was silent, Mrs. Livingstone watered her pillow with the first tears she had shed for her youngest born, whom she well knew she had driven from home, and when her husband asked what they should do, she answered with a fresh burst of tears, "Send for Anna to come back." "And Malcolm, too?" queried Mr.
"There you have caught me, for I don't know to what use she is to be applied," replied the captain, laughing because, as the highest authority on board of the ship, he was unable to answer the question. "You don't know?" queried Christy. "Or have I asked an indiscreet question?" said the passenger. "If I knew, and found it necessary to conceal my knowledge from you, I should say so squarely, Mr.
"Daphne Hillis is the most popular girl in school," she said, "but I think she has fewer friends than any other girl, and that's what makes it strange." "But if she's so popular?" Janet queried. "Oh, she could have dozens of friends, but she doesn't seem to want them. She's queer and different somehow; none of us understand her, but we all love her."
"He said, 'By God! half-breed or not, there's one Isbel who's a man! An' he killed Bruce on the spot an' gave Meeker a nasty wound. Somebody grabbed him before he could shoot Meeker again. They threw Meeker out an' he crawled to a neighbor's house, where he was when Evarts seen him." Ellen felt Sprague's rough but kindly hand shaking her. "An' now what do you think of Jean Isbel?" he queried.
I go to Topeka to-morrow to answer Governor Crawford's call for volunteers for a cavalry company to go out on a winter campaign against the rascally redskins. They're going to get what they need. If you mix up with Custer, you'll see." "And when the campaign's over," queried O'mie, "will you stay in the army?" "No, O'mie, I'll find a place. The world is wide. But look here, boy.
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