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A slipshod servant answered the bell. "Have you got any small rooms?" asked Frank. "Yes," answered the girl. "Missus is out, but I'll show you a hall bedroom, if you like." "I should like to see it." Frank followed the girl upstairs. He was not favorably impressed by the appearance of the interior. He did not so much mind its being shabby, but he was repelled by the evident lack of neatness.
Luckily he was there, and at his call the Major came with more men. The warriors were repelled at this point, also. At the end of a half hour the attack sank, and then ceased on all sides. The defenders were victorious for the time, and there was great rejoicing among those who did not know all the ways of the forest.
She had many suitors, but repelled them all, and would go to the grotto of Galatea, and tell her how she was persecuted.
Patsy's stiff face as he repelled the gossips was a sight to see. He had also to keep at bay many questions about Susan Horridge and her boy, in doing which he showed some asperity and thereby gave a handle to the gossips. "I should have thought the cottage by the waterfall a damp place," said Sir Shawn, indifferently. He was not much interested in the petty happenings of the neighbourhood.
It was you who grew away from me, not me from you, when you took to studying mysticism and aerophones, and were repelled by all women, myself included." "I know, I know," he said. "Don't remind me of my dead follies. Some things are born in the blood." "Quite so, and they remain in the bone. I understand.
Whereupon Mr. Slosson's male domestic indulged in certain strange antics that were not rightly any part of woodchopping. This yet further repelled Hannibal. "The disgustin' chattel!" he muttered under his breath, quoting his Uncle Bob, with whom, in theory at least, race feeling was strong.
"We have discussed that, haven't we, Maskull? Maskull is anxious to behold that rare fruit in its native wilds." Maskull looked at Krag carefully, trying to analyse his own feelings toward him. He was distinctly repelled by the man's personality, yet side by side with this aversion a savage, living energy seemed to spring up in his heart that in some strange fashion was attributable to Krag.
"No, it's only " she bit her lip "it's just that the Lhari are I can't quite explain it." "Different," Bart finished for her. "At first I was repelled physically repelled by myself, and by them. It was like living among weird animals, and being one of the animals. And then, one day, Ringg was just another kid.
Even the courtiers of the day, anxious to say their strongest in her praise, could not do much more than commend her eyes and complexion and call her "a very fine girl," while those who were not inclined to flatter said her face was all mouth, and declared, probably untruly, that the young King was at first obviously repelled by the plainness of his wife's appearance.
Yet there was strength in it too, and this came to her mind now, as though in excuse for whatever else there was in the situation which, against her will, repelled her. "I am so sorry for you," she said at last. "What do you mean?" he asked. "To lose all that has been yours so long." This was their great moment. The response to this must be the touchstone of their lives.
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