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She dared not tell the sad truth at once, but she walked after Tom in trembling silence as he went out, thinking how she could tell him the news so as to soften at once his sorrow and his anger; for Maggie dreaded Tom's anger of all things; it was quite a different anger from her own. "Tom," she said, timidly, when they were out of doors, "how much money did you give for your rabbits?"
This must be the pretty little girl who was so ill a few nights ago. Sit down for a moment, I beg of you." Helene was forced to accept the invitation, while Jeanne timidly perched herself on the edge of another chair. Madame Deberle again sank down on her little sofa, exclaiming with a pretty laugh, "Yes, this is my day. I receive every Saturday, you see, and Pierre then announces all comers.
And indeed he seemed to be, as he stood wringing his hands, stamping his feet, and vociferating incoherently, while the tears began to flow down his cheeks. "We are going in search of your daughter," said Sant' Ilario. "Pray calm yourself. She will certainly be found." "Perhaps I had better go too," suggested Ascanio Bellegra, rather timidly.
Being a steady, handsome fellow, who made love in downright earnest, he impressed Sophie's eighteen years, and was somewhat timidly but graciously accepted as an affianced suitor. It was thought at King's Norton that Mrs. Tarne had done a better stroke of business in the first year of her widowhood than her late husband had done always an unlucky wretch, Timothy in the whole course of his life.
"So deska?" she said politely, then repeated his words in puzzled incomprehension: "Nowarms? Nowarms?" When she returned to the soldier she gathered up the flowers which she had dropped by the wayside, and timidly offered them to him. For a long moment she waited, then her smile faded mid her hand dropped.
Wagge passed her and put his hand on the latch of the front door. His little piggy eyes scanned her almost timidly. "Well," he said, "I'm very glad to have the privilege of your acquaintance; and, if I may say so, you 'ave you 'ave my 'earty sympathy. Good-day." The door once shut behind her, Gyp took a long breath and walked swiftly away.
So she kissed her friend on the forehead, gave me a gracious nod, and, declining the offer of my carriage, walked with her usual brisk, decided tread down the short path towards the town. Mrs. Ashleigh timidly approached me, and again the furtive hand bashfully insinuated the hateful fee. "Stay," said I; "this is a case which needs the most constant watching.
Some of those women looked defiant, some timidly aggressive, some full of the stir of adventure, some drooping with cold and fatigue. The supply never ceased. I had a mortal fear that somehow the supply might halt or cease. I found that continual siege of the legislature extraordinarily impressive infinitely more impressive than the feeble-forcible "ragging" of the more militant section.
The best thing she could have done would have been not to persist, and to leave Christophe alone, at least for the time being: but that was not what she did: and as the worst thing she could have done was to talk to him; about Sabine, that was precisely what she did. With a fluttering at her heart, by way of sounding him, she said timidly that Sabine was pretty.
I hated him before I knew but now I ;" as he spoke, the door was opened by a little servant that Mrs. Stevens had recently obtained from a charity institution. "You've kept me standing a pretty time," exclaimed he savagely, as he seized her ear and gave it a spiteful twist; "can't you manage to open the door quicker?" "I was up in the garret, and didn't hear the bell," she replied, timidly.
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