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He straightened sheepishly, not knowing whether to grin or to scowl. Neither of them spoke for a moment. "Feeling better?" he asked at last, for the silence embarrassed him. "Oh, yes, thanks." She rose and flicked her cigarette out of the window. "Where are you going?" he asked again. "Home to breakfast." "Impossible!" "Why?" "You're not fit " "Oh, yes I am " "Besides, you can't " "Why not?"
Weston, who agreed with this, expressed his thanks and then asked a question. "Wannop mentioned one lot of six hundred shares. Where did you get those?" "They were thrown on the market by an English holder. I believe you gave some stock to friends over there?" "I did. On condition that they didn't sell without consulting me." "Then it seems that somebody must have gone back on you."
Mr. Cooke took it for granted that his friends should not please his wife, and Mrs. Cooke remarked to Farrar and me that her husband was old enough to know better, and too old to be taught. She loved him devotedly and showed it in a hundred ways, but she was absolutely incapable of dissimulation. Thanks to Mrs. Cooke, our visit to Mohair was a pleasant one.
"Very fair, thanks," said Ronald, depositing his hat on the floor beside him, "in fact I believe we came over uncommonly quick for the time of year. How is" "What steamer did you come by?" interrupted Miss Schenectady. "The Gallia. She is one of the Cunarders. But as I was going to ask" "Yes, an old boat, I expect. So you came on right away from New York without stopping?"
What a profusion of thanks over a can of water! It made me smile, and they smiled to see my work, so it was all very funny. It was astonishing to see the number of Yankee canteens in the possession of our men. Almost all those who fought at Baton Rouge are provided with them. In their canvas and wire cases, with neat stoppers, they are easily distinguished from our rough, flat, tin ones.
And so she's sent you over to thank me! Tell her no thanks are due. And if she inquires, tell her that the pony didn't make a sound or a struggle when I shot him." "As it happens, she didn't send me," smiled Langford. "There was the excitement, of course, and I presume she forgot to thank you possibly will ride over herself some day to thank you personally.
"You're a tough nut to talk about sleep when you've killed the best man in Nevada County." "Where would you be, J. C. P. Collins, if I hadn't killed him? You'd be in hell this minute." "Thanks, awfully. But I wish the man wasn't dead." "What did the fool put up a fight for? He could see we had him." "That's what I say. He was a fool to risk his life.
In the blithe open air Fan observed, when she had recovered her gravity: "How good the keepers are to take so much trouble to show us things!" "Thanks to you," he replied, hypocritically. "If I had come alone they wouldn't have troubled to show me things."
Astonished and delighted at the reward, which represented a very large sum in those days, the sailor stammered his thanks, and added, "I hope tonight that if I again have charge of a fire ship, I may be able to do more to prove to your Highness how grateful I am for the gift." Throughout the day preparations for the defence of St. Nicholas went on unceasingly.
Lucy will be forced, after having made so bad a choice of a lover, to make a good one in a husband, in order to recover her self-esteem!" "And therefore you are certain of her!" said Brandon, ironically. "Thanks to my star, my garter, my ancestor, the first baron, and myself, the first earl, I hope I am," said Mauleverer; and the conversation turned.
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