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Patsy addressed the woman in French but could elicit no reply. She stood impassive and silent. "How did you make the mistake?" asked the girl, looking reproachfully first at Henderson and then at Rondel, both of whom were evidently astonished to find themselves at fault. "I have seen a photograph of Mrs. Andrew Denton, taken recently, and she is young and pretty and and rather small."
Fortunately the carriage-lamps were unlit, the windows still blurred with rain, and the night intensely dark; so, feeling like a wretch reprieved on the scaffold, I shrank farther and farther into the corner, glad to favor a mistake which promised some hope of escape. "Eh bien!" said the lady, half tenderly, half reproachfully; "have you nothing to say to me?" Say to her, indeed!
I'd never think of it," cried Jessie. "I'm not afraid," here put in Edith. "Fickle Jessica may change her mind and her ring half a dozen times before June. Who can tell?" "I'm not fickle where all of you are concerned, anyhow," answered Jessie reproachfully. "You're a dear, Jessie," broke in Molly. She never did quite enjoy seeing other people teased.
'What magic have you used? she said almost gaily; it was wonderful how hope had changed her. 'Besides, I am curious to learn how you managed to avoid fighting. 'After taking a blow? I said bitterly. 'Monsieur, I did not mean that, she said reproachfully. But her face clouded. I saw that, viewed in this light in which, I suppose, she had not hitherto the matter perplexed her more than before.
"I have been thinking the same about you for more than twenty-four hours," I said reproachfully. "Why did you start without ?" "I did not want you to come, Petrie," he replied. "I had a sort of premonition. You see it was realized; and instead of being as helpless as I, Fate has made you the instrument of my release. Quick! You have a knife? Good!"
"Oh, do tell me about it, Admiral Peters," cried Mrs. Dutton. "Surely Burton has told you that?" said Mr. Stiles. "Never breathed a word of it," said the widow, gazing somewhat reproachfully at the discomfited Mr. Burton. "Well, tell it now, Burton," said Mr. Stiles. "You tell it better than I do, sir," said the other. "No, no," said Mr.
Don't break the first promise you ever made me, Philip." She did not say it very reproachfully, for his look was ardent and worshipful, and she could not be even a little austere in her new joy. "I am going," he answered. "We will go back to the town, I by the road, you by the shore, so no one will see us, and " "Philip," said Guida suddenly, "is it quite the same being married without banns?"
David felt that his father's eyes were often on him reproachfully; and that his mother's were approvingly on his father's. Time and again during the meal the impulse well-nigh overcame him to speak to his father then and there; but he knew it would be a cruel, angry scene; and each time the face of Gabriella restrained him.
"After the way you stood by me through the trial," he began, reproachfully, "I thought " "Oh, you do not understand," she said, hopelessly. "You do not understand. Look at me, Gregory, and see if I can make you understand. Your presence is painful to me. Your kisses hurt me. The memory of them still burns my cheek, and my lips feel unclean. And why? Because of women, which you may explain away?
"Now, dear mamma," she whispered, when Mrs. Rothesay was a little composed, "we must answer the letter at once. What shall we say!" "Nothing! That cruel man deserves no reply at all." "Mamma!" cried Olive, somewhat reproachfully. "Whatever he may be, we are evidently his debtors. Even Mr. Wyld admits this, you see. We must not forget justice and honour my poor fathers honour." "No no!
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