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Perkenpine, running to see what this meant, soon came back and told me that the family of three had departed in the night, and had sent this cart for their baggage. I think this was a very uncivil proceeding, and I do not in the least understand it. Can you imagine any reason for this extremely uncourteous action?" The bishop could imagine reasons, but he did not care to state them.
When therefore, Rolf, feeling that he might have been too abrupt and uncourteous in the way he had addressed him, apologised for his roughness, the priest answered blandly "Do not concern yourself, my friend, on that account. We are old acquaintance.
Leslie?" Lumley looked delightedly at the speaker, and then glanced at Evelyn; but Mrs. Leslie said very gravely, "No, we shall feel too much in leaving this dear place to be gay companions for Lord Vargrave. We shall all meet at dinner; or," she added, after a pause, "if this be uncourteous to Lord Vargrave, suppose Evelyn and myself take his carriage and, he accompanies you?"
Since this present difference is in danger of losing the healing influence of a kindly touch has become an uncourteous monster of 35 heads and 3 appendices I see no early end of it. The British Foreign Office has a lot of lawyers in its great back offices. They and our lawyers will now butt and rebut as long as a goat of them is left alive on either side.
"I do not see why he should not," she said: "God is so good, that he never takes away one beauty without bestowing another; and the raven's glossy wing might be, to some, even more beautiful than the purple plumage of the dove: at all events, so excellent a man would not be chained by mere eye-beauty, which, after all, passeth quickly. Though I think it was very uncourteous of Mr.
He tried to recount things as discreetly as possible, frightened by the very words he spoke, the horrors he had to relate in that sphere of superlative luxury and enjoyment, before those happy ones who possessed all the gifts of this world; for to use a slang expression he fully realised that he sang out of tune, and in most uncourteous fashion.
You are gentle to me and spoil me, and it is only well that one among my old friends should be sincere enough to be ungentle." "I beg your pardon, Rebecca, if I have been uncourteous." "There can be no pardon where there is no offence." "If you are ashamed to hear of your marriage," said the father, "you should be ashamed to think of it."
Graham—though I own it looks rather like it to absent myself in this uncourteous fashion from my guests.’ ‘I feared you were unwell,’ said she, with a look of real concern. ‘I was rather, but it’s over now.
A woman passes by, a perfect stranger, but De Quincey steps entirely out of the road to one side, takes off his hat, and in the most reverent attitude awaits her passage, and you, poor astonished mortal that you are, lest you should yourself seem scandalously uncourteous, are compelled to do likewise.
"But," pursued Augustus, who seemed soliloquizing, and whose voice, sounding calm and thoughtful, like Young's in the famous monologue in "Hamlet," denoted that he heeded not the uncourteous interruption, "but opinion does not always influence conduct; and although it may be virtuous to murder the watchman, I have not the heart to do it.
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