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As she, with manifest hesitation, not to say reluctance, touched it, a strange tremble passed over him, and his face, so deadly white, was moved as by a stroke of pain. Then he was gone. The dolls' dressmaker sat with her attitude unchanged, eyeing the door by which he had departed, until Lizzie pushed her bench aside and sat down near her.
In weather like this I daresay you would manage tolerably well; but if a frigate were by any chance to fall in with you in a fresh breeze, or, worse still, in heavy weather, I fear you would find yourselves in a `tight place; she would have you under her guns in less than an hour." "That's so, stranger; yes, I reckon that's so," conceded Johnson with evident reluctance.
They were not substantial food, but they must suffice for a time. After a while, when he felt that he was far beyond the hearing of Red Eagle's men, he would shoot game, though in his present mood he did not like to kill anything that lived in the forest. But he knew that he must, in time, overcome his reluctance, as such a frame as his, in the absence of bread, could not live without meat.
"It was his choice to be, he gave it up without reluctance?" "Emile obeyed the command of his parents," Weyburn answered; and he was obedient to the veiled direction of her remark, in speaking of himself: "I had a reason, too." "One wonders!" "It would have impoverished my mother's income to put aside a small allowance for me for years. She would not have hesitated.
I should value your society." "I am not in evening dress." "Nor am I," Dominic answered, with admirable seriousness. There was something pitiful to him in the conflict, obviously going forward in the other's mind, between hunger and reluctance to incur an obligation. He cut it short with gentle authority. "There is a vacant table in the corner where we can talk free from interruption.
Bloomfield's great, surprise, for, as the latter had put the question with sincere reluctance, she was astonished at the coolness with which it was received. "He is not Mr. Powis, legally perhaps, though he might be, but that he dislikes the publicity of an application to the legislature. His paternal name is Assheton." "You know his history, then!" "There has been no reserve on the part of Mr.
But a law, evidently the offspring of a momentary passion of disgust or despair, and which could not but have been wrung with reluctance from a government, whose conduct it tacitly arraigned, and whose military pride it must have mortified, was not likely to bind, for any length of time, a gallant aristocracy and a susceptible people.
However, it seemed to impress the coroner, and he made notes as he dismissed the witness. Cassie Weldon added one bit of new information. She said, though with evident reluctance, that she had caught a mere glimpse of somebody running upstairs, just before the waiter had come to call for help. Cassie had not wanted to testify at all.
Graham, with Mary and Anna, went out to see him. Their inquiries about his condition were vaguely answered, and with seeming reluctance, or as it appeared to them, with indifference.
Possibly you have made a savings bank out of your bosom?” She laughed lustily. Philippina got up: “Yes, it is my money,” she confessed with reluctance, and looked at Dorothea hostilely. “It must be a whole lot. Look out, or some one will steal it from you. You will have to sleep on your stomach.” Daniel came down from his study, and heard Dorothea laughing.
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