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"You have lost Harry Goward, and you come here " "On the same errand, I presume, my distressed and distressing sister, that has brought you. Have you seen her?" he demanded, with sudden, uncharacteristic shrewdness. At this moment a portiere opened at the side of my back parlor, and Mrs. Chataway, voluminously appearing, mysteriously beckoned me.
This indiscretion, so uncharacteristic, was due to the agitation of a surprised moment, for Duke's experience had inclined him to a peaceful pessimism, and he had no ambition for hazardous undertakings of any sort. He was given to musing but not to avoidable action, and he seemed habitually to hope for something which he was pretty sure would not happen.
Miss Halcombe, after once or twice hesitating and checking herself, in a most uncharacteristic manner, spoke at last. "I have seen your uncle this morning, Laura," she said. "He thinks the purple room is the one that ought to be got ready, and he confirms what I told you. Monday is the day not Tuesday." While these words were being spoken Miss Fairlie looked down at the table beneath her.
For male voices Brewer has written a cantata called "The Birth of Love." Its fiery ending is uncharacteristic, but the beautiful tenor solo and an excellent bass song prove his forte to lie in the realm of tenderness. Brewer's music has little fondness for climaxes, but in a tender pathos that is not tragedy, but a sort of lotos-eater's dreaminess and regret, he is congenially placed.
Then we have plausibility of what may be called uncharacteristic event of such events as are independent of the will of the characters, and are not conditioned by their psychology. On this plane we have to deal with chance and accident, coincidence, and all "circumstances over which we have no control."
She looked down at the wicked knife, and shuddered. "Oh, Joe, your mercenary career is over. Miraculously, you stayed alive for fifteen years through it all. From the Rank Private all the way up to Rank Major. Now at long last, you're an Upper. You're not going to throw it all away, now." He could say nothing. She stamped a foot in uncharacteristic fury. "You silly clod. Suppose you do win?
It must have been written in complete ignorance. Mrs. Clarke had made a mistake. Perhaps she had been betrayed into error by her own knowledge of guilt. And yet such a lapse was very uncharacteristic of her. He compared his knowledge of her with his knowledge of Rosamund.
These couldn't be the gentle, affectionate people who had taught her with such patience over the last four years, now bloody and fearsome. Taking a deep breath, she stepped forward to the edge of the dais and called, "Thark!" He turned, startled, and looked up at her. "Corina!" he exclaimed. "What " Then he noticed the drab green kilt, totally uncharacteristic of her. Now what? he wondered.
There is a story, not uncharacteristic, of modern social life, of a hostess who loved to assemble about her, in the style of Mrs.
Its presence there was due to another's forethought, another's determination. But the poison had not killed. Both glasses had been emptied, but Ah! those glasses. What explanation had the police, now, for those two emptied glasses? They had hitherto supposed me to be the second person who had joined Adelaide in this totally uncharacteristic drinking. To whom did they now attribute this act?
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