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"Beth," she exclaimed, "you are superhuman!" "Ah!" said Beth, with a mysterious smile, "when you have learnt to listen to the whispers of the night, and know what they signify as I do, you will not wonder. Marvellous things have been happening while you slept." "O Beth!" said Charlotte reproachfully, "why didn't you wake me?" "I was forbidden," Beth answered sadly. "But now watch for me.
Do you know that he is now in the jail?" The widow looked perplexed. "I know it," said she. "I was just going to see him when you came in." "Ah! mother," said Henry, reproachfully, "why did you not tell me sooner about Gascoyne?
"Surely you're not going away without doing that, are you?" "I did think you'd keep your word, Jake," said Bessie, reproachfully. "I can't! I've got to go, I tell you!" Jake broke out. His fright was not assumed; it was plain that he was terrified. "If they was after you, I guess you'd know here, I'm going "
It occurred to her suddenly that, since the young man was going, there was nothing to be gained by waiting, and he might think She picked up her parasol and started for the gate, but Mr. Wilder hung back; he wanted to see the matter out. 'Father, said she reproachfully, 'it's embarrassing enough for him to fee all those people without our staying and watching him do it.
Do you want to make Dic sue us for the money we owe him, and throw us out of business? Don't you know we would have to go back to Blue if Dic asked for his money? If you hain't got any sense, you ought to keep your mouth shut." "Tom, you should be ashamed," said Rita, looking reproachfully at her brother. "You shut up too," answered Tom. "Go in and talk to your two beaux. God! but you're popular.
"And I was putting myself in opposition to all those older and more experienced people. How could I help distrusting myself at times? I saw them all looking coldly and reproachfully at me. Here again my pride had something to say. They would smile among themselves, and tell each other that they had held a mistakenly high opinion of me. That was hard to bear.
But his lordship insisted, looking reproachfully, and the brandy was produced. It did him good; that is to say, it brought colour to his face, and enabled him to sit upright. No sooner was he thus recovered than his eyes fell upon the envelope of a telegram which lay on his writing-table. "There it is, at last!" He tore the paper, all but sobbing with agony of impatience.
"I thought you promised to wait for me, Avery," Bruce said reproachfully. "You were so long in coming back I thought you had forgotten me," cried Avery. "I think I did forget a little, Avery. I was such a boy. But now well, thank Heaven, I haven't come too late." There was a silence, and shameless Janet, peering above the window sill, saw what she saw. It was enough.
Matters were in this condition, one day, when Grant dropped in for one of his frequent short calls on Marjorie. "Mustn't stay," he answered briefly; "I'm on my way down to get my hair cut. I'm going to try Charlie Mac's barber; he gets a better shape on your hair, somehow." "Extravagant boy!" said Marjorie reproachfully. "You'll have to pay him ever so much. How much does he charge, anyway?"
I had anticipated an affair with men only a secret assault or a petard expedition. But seeing the bareness of my room, and the honour the king was doing me, I felt I had no choice, and I answered, 'That being the case, sire, I am wholly at your service. 'That is well, he, answered briskly, though methought he looked at Du Mornay reproachfully, as doubting his commendation of me.
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