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"You mustn't mind Robert, Sarah," put in Cousin Jenny, a remark reminiscent of other days. "Dad has a notion that his generation is the only honest one," said Helen, laughingly, as she passed a plate. I had gained a sense of superiority, and I was quite indifferent to Cousin Robert's opinion of Mr. Watling, of modern lawyers in general.

He put out his tongue at her, but presently released his sister, who stood rubbing her arm, her lips moving in evident recrimination and complaint. The faces of the two were plain now; the boy resembled Ditmar, but the features of the girl, heavy and stamped with self-indulgence, were evidently reminiscent of the woman who had been his wife.

And he who had thought to stand before these people in shame to receive their condolences now perceived that his trial would be of another but hardly less-distressing sort. For somehow, so dense were these good folks, that he must seem to be not displeased with his own performance. Amazingly they congratulated him, struggling with reminiscent laughter as they did so.

He was good-natured as a general thing, but on occasion his temper could be of the worst, and had, in his childhood, been the subject of much adverse comment among his aunts. He was rigidly truthful, where the issue concerned only himself. Where it was a case of saving a friend, he was prepared to act in a manner reminiscent of an American expert witness.

I remember father always said it was the most becoming hat you ever had. And I was thinking, maybe, I could make one something like that!" "I'm afraid I've outgrown pink roses, dear." But mother was smiling a soft, reminiscent little shadow of a smile. "But you haven't outgrown the poke shape and violet! Oh, mother!" "Well, perhaps we'll see. But you mustn't let it run away with you.

This old man was called "the Great Western": I suppose his bulk and commanding figure were reminiscent of the power and energy of one of the locomotives on that line. He wore a very wide-brimmed straw hat, and a vast expanse of waistcoat with sleeves, without a coat over it, and he had a very determined and masterful habit of speech.

Bill, catching her drift, laughed out joyously. "That's so I was crazy about her once, wasn't I?" Billy asked, smilingly reminiscent. "But I like Anna better now. Only I've sort of thought sometimes that Anna has a crush on someone Peter Coleman, maybe." "No, not on him," Susan hesitated. "There's a doctor at the hospital, but he's awfully rich and important " she admitted. "Oh." Billy withdrew.

I ran across him in one of those vile little twisting alleys in the Kasbah quarter where dirty natives sit cross-legged on shabby rugs and eye the 'Infidel dogs' just as spiders watch flies from loathsome webs ugh, you know the sort of place!" He paused with a slight shudder of reminiscent disgust. "I fancy he has had adventures.

At that moment she seemed reminiscent of what she must once have been; and he found himself going through an effort at reconstruction. "Like what?" he asked. "Like a woman," she answered vehemently. "My name is John Hodder," he said, "and I live in the parish house, next door to the church. I should like to be your friend, if you will let me.

Thus much until they reached the steps of the veranda, and Milly, flying down, was ostentatiously overwhelmed with the unexpected appearance of Mr. Paul Hathaway and Yerba, whom she had been watching from the window for the last ten minutes. Then the appearance of Mr. Woods, Californian and reminiscent, and Mrs.