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"Damn you, chubs!" he shouted at them. "It's my mother." Then as he drew the trembling old woman towards the fireplace, he whispered in her ears, "Don't be frightened, mammy, they meant no harm." A certain hang-dog air of contrition was on the faces of most of the members of the gang as they stood apart and eyed the mother and son shame-facedly.
He climbed shame-facedly down and answered the usual questions with his usual patient courtesy, and hoped fervently that they would either die at once of heart failure or go back to the lake and leave him alone. Instead, they took pictures of the station and the rocks and of him though Jack was keen-witted enough to keep in the shade and turn his face away from the camera.
"I confess I haven't the eye for skirts you have, but " He broke off suddenly and darted to the grade. "Here!" he snapped, peering into the dark woods beyond. "Come out of it." Three men emerged somewhat shame-facedly from the gloom and followed him to the shack.
But his marvelous constitution, a result of his clean living and outdoor life, responded quickly to the stimulation of food and hot drinks, and in half an hour he got up, still a little weak, but with some color in his cheeks, and shame-facedly thanked the girl.
They halted before Acup and one of them spoke somewhat shame-facedly: "I disgusts ter quit on a man in sore need, Parson, but us fellers kain't hold up no longer. We're plum fagged ter death mebby termorrer mornin' " He broke off and Acup answered in a heavy-hearted voice: "So fur as this hyar job's consarned most likely thar won't be no termorrer.
They spent long hours together in the library, when, after a crowded day, filled with the thousand, problems of reconstructions, Clayton smoked a great deal, talked a little, rather shame-facedly after the manner of men, of personal responsibility in the war, and quietly watched the man who was Graham.
There is only one record of a Blake in to-day's register and that's this room and this lady when Marjorie left me at the ferry she was coming here, straight. I've been to all the possible hotels. She is nowhere. You say she telephoned to you. From where?" "She didn't say," answered Uncle Richard, shame-facedly, and added still more dejectedly, "I didn't ask.
Jack and Walter stood confronting, in the glare of several electric lights, the portly form of Senor Ramo, who seemed ill at ease. The members of the mutinous crew stood about, rather shame-facedly, it must be confessed. Lieutenant Walling wore an air of triumph. He had brought the criminals to the end of their rope. "Jack! Where are they?" asked Cora, impulsively.
"And your silence may I put the usual interpretation on it?" "I suppose so," he said, shame-facedly. "Please don't think me ungracious," he added. "You very dear person!" she cried; and after that they walked for fully five minutes without exchanging a word. The matter had been decided and, according to their wont, there was no further manifestation, no further reference to it on either side.
She laughed outright, and said: "Why wilt thou be forever harping on the time of my captivity, friend? And thou who knowest the story somewhat already? Howbeit, I may tell thee thereof without heart-burning, though it be a felon tale." He said, somewhat shame-facedly: "Take it not ill that I am fain to hear of thee and thy life-days, since we are become fellow-farers."
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