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You must be very careful about your next contracts. I hope you didn't agree to let Mr. Winter have a second book on the same terms as this one. Henry recalled a certain clause of the contract which he had signed. 'I am afraid I did, he admitted sheepishly. 'But the terms are quite fair. I saw to that. 'Mr. Knight! Mr. Knight! she burst out. 'Why are all you young and clever men the same?

But when they met each did his best to make out to the other that he had come there by the merest chance, both sheepishly realizing that the very evening before they had put on big-boy airs about "that young one whom they could never get rid of," and had said that they would go off in an entirely different direction the next day, to avoid her if possible.

And I should like to find a country and make it into a nice big town. I want to do something big. I ask God every day to let me find something to do." "Do you believe in in God?" asked Rob, rather sheepishly. "Of course I do; what do you mean? Don't you?" "I don't know. I don't know much about Him, only you often talk as if you're well quite friends with Him, and I've wondered at it."

Sheepishly guilty in feeling as only men can be, the party in the studio awaited expected developments. In a few minutes they heard the approach of a man's footsteps upon the stairs. All eyes turned curiously toward the doorway. Nearer came the sounds, nearer, while with increasing volume their hearts beat responsively. The steps stopped. The waiting hearts seemed to stand still in sympathy.

And if the wedded males did not all of them show up for this unagreeable task, a dreadful hullabaloo was instantly raised and forth would more or less sheepishly issue the delinquents.

"I should say she was thirty." The gaze of admiration and envy was upon him. He had the legitimate joy of making a second sensation. "I'll let you know more about that when I come back," he added. "I can open your eyes, my child." Cyril smiled sheepishly. "Why can't you stay now?" he asked. "I'm going to take the cast of that Verrall girl's arm this afternoon, and I know I can't do it alone.

"Yes, yes," agreed the Honourable Hilary; "do you know Mr. Brush Bascom and Mr. Manning? Allow me to introduce you, and General Doby." "How are you, General?" said Mr. Crewe to the Speaker-to-be, "I'm always glad to shake the hand of a veteran. Indeed, I have thought that a society " "I earned my title," said General Doby, somewhat sheepishly, "fighting on Governor Brown's staff.

"Well, wot's bitin' youse?" inquired the Magpie ironically. "Nothin'," said Larry the Bat and hesitated. "Nothin', only " He hesitated again; and then, the words in a rush: "Say, Slimmy, couldn't youse come across wid a piece of dat century now?" "Wot fer?" demanded the Magpie, a little aggressively. Larry the Bat cleared his throat with a desperate effort. "Youse knows," he admitted sheepishly.

As for the men, they admired her timidly, sheepishly, and also a trifle contemptuously. They did not admit openly the same opinion as the women with regard to the legitimacy of her charms, but they did maintain it secretly. It did not seem possible to many of them that a woman could look just as Eliza Farrel did and be altogether natural.

But he did not say a word until the Little Woman walked up and kissed him on both cheeks, turning his face this way and that with her hand under his chin. Casey grinned sheepishly then and hugged her with his good arm. I wish you could have seen the look in his eyes when they dwelt on the Little Woman! "Casey Ryan, you need a shave.