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Now that the purposes of the Frenchman had been made clear, and since he was still at large, the world was no safe place for unattended women. Aleck pondered deeply over the situation. "Is your amiable cousin's henchman a man to be scared off by our recent little encounter, do you think?" he asked of Mélanie. She considered. "He might be scared, easily enough.

And his books are worth a dozen of your milksop Pamelas and Clarissas, Mrs. Lambert: but what woman ever loved true humour? And there was Mr. Johnson sitting amongst the charity children. Did you see how he turned round to the altar at the Belief, and upset two or three of the scared little urchins in leather breeches? And what a famous sermon Harry's parson gave, didn't he?

If we overthrow our whole system of jurisprudence, why, I've nothing to say. That's anarchy, not government. The South is growing faster relatively than the North. The politicians on both sides are scared about the balance of power, and they're simply taking advantage of this cry of morality. They're putting the moralists out as cat's-paws to the fire!"

It was a shock that roused him to a scared scrutiny of the future. He put questions to her for the purpose of drawing out her ideas, and her answers showed that all her thoughts and plans were gathering round the welfare of her baby. Her desire for its good was to end her unresisting subservience to him. She was thinking already of better things.

Then he was going to build it of copper ore splendid yellow forty-per-cent. ore! There's fortunes upon fortunes of copper ore on our land! It scared me to death, the idea of this fool starting a smelting furnace in his house without knowing it, and getting his dull eyes opened. And then he was going to build it of iron ore! There's mountains of iron ore here, Nancy whole mountains of it.

"You needn't be scared of me, kiddo." "I was just kind of looking around," Pee-wee explained apologetically. "Here's a pencil fur yer," the stranger said. "I jes' picked it up." Pee-wee accepted this as a flag of truce, and felt somewhat reassured. A man who would give him a pencil surely meant no harm. He had as much right to be there as Pee-wee had.

It was for his ugliness I chose him. Those dark stern features, that imperious mouth, and a brow like the Olympian Jove. He scared me into loving him. I sheltered myself upon his breast from the thunder of his brow, the lightning of his eye." "He has a look of his cousin Wentworth," said Sir John.

"I don't aim to pluck your feathers without giving you some new ones." Sarah laughed. "I sat up late last night, cutting down a pair of Mr. Johnston's old pants. I got a shirt, too, laid out here on the bed." Slowly Abe started taking off his shirt. He looked fearfully at the tub of hot water. "There's no call to be scared," said Sarah. "That tub won't bite. Now I'm going down to the spring.

On the lower steps he met Lorraine's maid, and told her briefly to pack her mistress's trunks for a visit to Morteyn. Lorraine was waiting for him at the window where he had left her, a scared, uncertain little maid in truth. "The battle is very near, isn't it?" she asked. "No, miles away yet." "Did you speak to papa? Did he send word to me? Does he want me?"

What'd such a glorious creature see in a poor, puny little thing like me?" "George, you're not over-handsome," admitted Dave, shaking his head. "But you can never tell about women. Sometimes they like even little, insignificant fellows. Don't be too scared about asking her. Besides, it will make it easier for me. You might tell her about me you know, sort of feel her out, so I'd "