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Brookes replied reflectively, and he was about to rush off into a long financial statement when his sister, who already regretted her joke, checked him with an abrupt question. "My dear James, is this marriage to be or not to be? That is what I want to know." "I really can't say, Mary; Sally has contrived to upset her sister; she would have been, I feel sure, glad to marry Mr.

The doctor had hurried away. "He won't come," said Ajax. "If he don't," said the father, fiercely, "the turkey-buzzards'll hev a meal, for I'll shoot him in his tracks." Ajax looked at me reflectively. "George," said he, "shooting Pap wouldn't help little Sissy, would it? You and I can't handle this job. My brother will go. But but, my poor old George, don't make ropes out of sand." So I went.

Stanford went remarkably well with each other, and whistling all the way, he reached his destination in half an hour a clear, silvery stream, shadowed by waving trees and famous in fishing annals. He flung himself down on the turfy sward, lit a cigar, and began smoking and staring reflectively at vacancy.

Then before they could answer, suddenly as though his fear had got some fresh hold of him, Jacob sprang forward and fled away, crashing through the bushes and leaping from rock to rock like a frightened buck. "Meyer always said that he did not believe in spirits," remarked Mr. Clifford reflectively. "Well, he believes in them now," answered Benita with a little laugh.

"I don't say it was so very bad," said Clementina, reflectively, "if it was something you couldn't help." "It was something I couldn't help. Perhaps I didn't try ." "Did-she know it?" "She knew it from the first; I told her before we were married." Clementina drew back a little, insensibly pulling her child with her. "I don't believe I exactly like it." "I knew you wouldn't!

Charlotte stood at the back of the shop looking on and reflectively picking her teeth with a pin. "She's a real good worker, Geraldine is," she remarked with a sniff, "I'll say that for her." An angry flash leaped up Mrs. Barry's spine. That settled it. This exquisite creature must not stay where that charwoman could speak of her so familiarly.

There's a small kitchen at the end, near the head of the tunnel which, by the way, could be used as a means of entrance and exit at low tide. All the electric power came through the meter of Kan-Suh Concessions." "I see," said Dunbar, reflectively, glancing at his watch; "in a word, we know everything except"... "What's that?" said Sowerby, looking up. "The identity of Mr.

I hope you are wrong about Lottie," Janice said quickly. "The dear little thing! She seemed very bright to-night," she added, with more cheerfulness in her tone than she really felt. "Say, you don't want that violin stole, Hopewell," said Mr. Massey reflectively. "Enough's been stole in Polktown to-day, I should say, to last us one spell."

"Yes," he said, with a slight smile, "but circumstances alter cases, and I have changed my views somewhat since then." "Yes," she said, reflectively; "she had no father, and it was you she married, you who know so well how to take care of both her and your daughters." At that her father merely smiled again and patted her cheek, saying. "I am glad you are so well content with my guardianship."

The midships engine, generally used as a reinforce, is not running; so the port and starboard turbine vacuum-chambers draw direct into the return-mains. The turbines whistle reflectively.