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Why, I thought you'd be pleased! I couldn't have any way of knowin' that you'd take it like this." "Shoved it in through a third-story window?" Pete's ingenuous face took on an injured look. "I reckon maybe he stood on his tip-toes," he admitted. "Who was it?" "I don't know," said Pete truthfully. "He didn't speak and I didn't see him.

"Will you send some one to his excellency the chancellor and tell him I have come from number forty Krumerweg?" "Krumerweg? The very name ought to close any gate. But, girl, are you speaking truthfully?" Gretchen exhibited the note. He scratched his chin, perplexed. "Run along. If they ask me, I'll say that I didn't see you." The sentry resumed his beat.

"Is it customary among the English to request to speak to strangers without the usual formalities of an introduction?" "I can not say that it is," he answered truthfully enough; "but the procedure is never without a certain charm and excitement." "Ah; then you were led to address me merely by the love of adventure?" "That is it; the love of adventure.

When we had overtaken the others we were still merrier, for the spectacular contingent plumed themselves like peacocks on their fearsomeness, and guyed us conventionally garbed fellows unmercifully. When the thirty of us filed into the long, barn-like hall where they were having the dance, I believe I can truthfully say that we created a sensation.

It was a momentary glance, but I read it, I am sure, quite truthfully. "You are the man," it said; but not in the old, bitter, and revengeful way voiced by his tongue before we came together in the one effort to save Carmel from what, in our short-sightedness and misunderstanding of her character, we had looked upon as the worst of humiliations and the most desperate of perils.

He presented his card, and on it I read, "Philip Pembroke." "Philip Pembroke!" I exclaimed. "Evidently you are surprised?" showing a set of strong white teeth. "Truthfully, I am," I said, taking his hand. "You see," I added, apologetically, "your family lawyer that is he gave me the er impression that you were a sickly fellow one foot in the grave, or something like.

"On the contrary, it may truthfully be said that, while in towns in which good persons dwell good actions receive the palms and the crown, it is among the Corsairs but to the wicked to whom are given recompense and praise.

You mayn't believe, I dare say, in love at first sight; but this I can swear to you was a genuine case of it." "I can believe in it very well," Le Neve answered, most truthfully, "now I've seen Miss Trevennack." Tyrrel looked at him, and smiled sadly. "Well, when I saw her again this morning," he went on, after a short pause, "my heart came up into my mouth.

Of how many persons can it truthfully be said they never worry, they are perfectly happy, contented, serene? It would be interesting if each of my readers were to recall his acquaintances and friends, think over their condition in this regard, and then report to me the result.

"It was truthfully characterized by our General Sherman as 'hell'; it has been the curse of the ages and brought misery and death to millions, besides turning back the hands on the dial of progress for centuries. Shun it as you would the pestilence that stalks at noonday." Such discourse is thrown away upon the South American leader to whom revolutions are as the breath of his life.