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"You are very young, after all." "But you may treat me as if I could understand you!" I said; and before he left me to dress for dinner he had virtually given me a promise that he would. When I went down into the drawing-room I was very punctual I found that neither my hostess nor my host had appeared. A lady rose from a sofa, however, and inclined her head as I rather surprisedly gazed at her.
"I find the cottage empty. Can you tell me where they have gone?" "Gone!" echoed the man, surprisedly. "I don't understand it; I was passing the door a few hours since, just as the stage drove off with John Brooks and Daisy. 'Good-bye, neighbor, he called out to me, 'I am off on an extended business trip.
"Thank you so much," she murmured at last. The man's deep-set blue eyes swept her from head to foot in a single comprehensive glance. "I am very glad to have been of service," he said briefly. With a slight bow he raised his hat and passed on, moving swiftly down the street, leaving her staring surprisedly after him and vaguely feeling that she had been snubbed.
He treated Adele exactly as if she had been an engaging five-year-old, and she had charming childish mannerisms for him alone. He pacified her when she fretted and complained, and was eagerly grateful when her mood was serene. Her prettiness and her little spoiled airs, Martie realized surprisedly, were full of appeal for him.
"Yes, of course," he answered, surprisedly, with his eyes open wide, "Bess's foal! of course it is." "There you are!" said Dad, grinning triumphantly. Donovan seemed uneasy. Joe in his turn appeared. Dad put the same question to him. Of course Joe knew Bess's foal "the one that got stole." There was a silence. "Now," said Dad, looking very grave, "what have y' got t' say? Who'd y' get him off?
There was something poignantly pathetic in the clinging together of these two small wayfarers in a strange country, so far from all they had known and shared in their short experience. Meg's "nasty hat" was rakishly askew upon her red curls, for Fay had frequently grabbed at it in her rage, and the beautiful green linen gown was sopping wet. "Engliss Ayah clying!" Fay remarked surprisedly.
Easy though it looks, the closer you get down to this kind of work as the cottager does it the more surprisedly do you discover that he recognizes right and wrong methods of doing it; and my own belief is that the necessity which compels the people to be their own servants would not make them so adaptable as they are, were there not, at the back of them, a time-honoured tradition teaching them how to go on.
A grateful nation had erected the tablet. "Good!" whispered Dwight, then as if to relieve their excited feelings, the two gravely shook hands. "What means this ceremony?" asked Mr. Lawrence with amusement, as he looked on surprisedly, and Dwight, pointing to the mural tablet, answered with dignity,
All the more reason why I should bless the accident which led Mlle. Dorian to my door." Mrs. M'Gregor, betraying, in her interest, real suspicion, murmured sotto voce: "Then she is a patient?" "What's that?" asked Stuart, regarding her surprisedly. "A patient? Certainly. She suffers from insomnia." "I'm no' surprised to hear it." "What do you mean, Mrs. M'Gregor?" "Now, Mr.
But now all the arrangements are altered, and I beg of you to abandon your intention." He looked at her surprisedly. "What, Mrs. Irwin? do you intend to deprive me of the pleasure I had looked forward to of accompanying you, and being your protector? And why?" "You also have just heard that all the arrangements are altered.
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