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The witticism appeared generally agreeable, and I laughed with the rest. The cheerful philosopher in the gray coat passed out: as he left the room, followed subserviently by his interlocutors, he bowed very pleasantly to me and shook hands with my guardian the engineer. "You know him?" I said to the latter. "Just as well as you," he replied: "is it possible you don't recognize him?

Perhaps, Compact Enchantress will live to be a Mystery, and to wait with a shawl at the side-scenes, and to sit opposite to Mademoiselle in railway carriages, and smile and talk subserviently, as Mystery does now. That's hard to believe! Two Englishmen, and now our carriage is full. First Englishman, in the monied interest flushed, highly respectable Stock Exchange, perhaps City, certainly.

But even as he stood subserviently by the couch of his employer, his slender hands at his sides, there seemed to be something of the alertness of a wild beast in his physical attitude of suppression. Somehow, he gave Ned the impression of one about to spring forth upon an enemy.

She lost independence at every turn and, by the time they returned to London, was beginning to lean on Traill, rely on him, submit subserviently to every wish he uttered. Such had been her desertion from the cause, a conscript in which, she had so ill-understood.

Redmayne was admirably rendered, and Jack's performance of the anxious and courteous Master, treading the primrose path reluctantly and yet subserviently, was very nearly as good.

Very well, I’ll go see her to-morrow morning,” replied Philippina, smiled subserviently, and laid her horny hand on Dorothea’s tender shoulder. “But listen, Philippina, be very, very careful. Do you hear?” Dorothea’s eyes became big and threatening. “Swear that you will be as silent as the tombs.” “As true as I’m standing here!” said Philippina.

Mason gave me a cautioning glance, which she need not have done, for I had no intention of making known Miss Jorgensen's secrets. "Well," said Miss Flower, as if she had been debating the question in her mind for some time previous, "I doubt if a woman can love a man who submits to her will as subserviently as Mr. Hurst seems to, to Miss Jorgensen. I know some women could not."

This advice, suggested by a woman, Andranodorus neither entirely rejected nor immediately adopted, considering it the safer way to the attainment of power to temporize for the present. Accordingly he told the ambassadors to carry word back, that he should act subserviently to the senate and the people.

There was no reply to his knock, and he tapped again, and then, timidly, and cringing subserviently, opened the door and stepped inside. He withdrew himself at once and stared stupidly at me, shaking his head. "'She is not there, he said. He stood for a moment, gazing blankly through the open door, and then hastened toward the dining-room.

Despite the loose, ugly garments of the Filipinos, Graydon noticed, for the first time, that the figure was perfectly moulded and high-bred. She swept off the wide hat she wore, and the man saw a mass of dark hair done up tightly on her head. But even while he gazed her mood changed; she became subserviently anxious and begged him to let her attend to his arm.