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Take your disappointment like a gentleman." I had finished my dinner and had become keenly interested in poor Mr. Searle's unencouraging or unencouraged claim; so interested that I at last hated to hear his trouble reflected in his voice without being able all respectfully! to follow it in his face.

As there was nothing to be said or done, we returned to breakfast filled with horrid fears. Nothing happened that day except that some priests arrived, lifted the earthenware pot, examined their departed colleague, who by now had become an unencouraging spectacle, removed old dishes of food, arranged more about him, and went off.

"I think we have a little score to settle between us as man to man, Kent," he began, when Kent had clipped the end from his own cigar and lighted it in stolid silence. "Possibly: that is for you to say," was the unencouraging reply. Bucks rose deliberately, walked to the bath-room door, and looked beyond it into the bedroom.

"Well, that's just why," her son replied, not very lucidly. "I want to do other things quite other things. I should like to take the next train," And he looked at his watch. "When there are people coming to dinner to meet you?" "They'll meet you that's better." "I'm sorry any one's coming," Lady Agnes said in a tone unencouraging to a deviation from the reality of things.

The latter was a woman of somewhat unencouraging exterior, not the kind that invites confidences. But Celestine had confidences to bestow, and the exodus to the movies had left her in a position where she could not pick and choose. She was faced with the alternative of locking her secret in her palpitating bosom or of revealing it to this one auditor.

It appears that he has been looking into things seriously. Modern as he is, he rather tilts at injustices, in a quiet way. He has satisfactorily convinced himself that Lord Mount Dunstan has been suffering for the sins of the fathers which must be annoying." "Is Lord Dunholm quite sure of that?" put in Sir Nigel, with a suggestively civil air. Old Lady Alanby gave him an unencouraging look.

A gentleman, too, as anybody could see, but a gentleman of a singularly unsocial disposition. He looked ten years older than he was an advantage which Hillerton recognized. His grave, unencouraging manner had a restraining effect upon too exacting tenants; while his actual youthfulness gave Hillerton the advantage over him of thirty years' seniority.

These were for the most part of a maledictory and unencouraging nature, so that after reading a few, Yin endeavoured to pass without being in any degree influenced by such ill-judged outbursts. "Accursed be the ancestors of this tormented one to four generations back!" was prominently traced upon an unusually large shoulder-blade.

And to this program she was to bring her father's consent for she knew very well that if she couldn't, Ben wouldn't be able to in the comparatively short time between now and dinner. Then, the splashing having ceased, the sound of bureau drawers succeeded, and Crystal sprang up and knocked again. "That you, Peters?" said an unencouraging voice. "No, dear, it's I," said Crystal.

Gleason were less attentive to Miss Sanford, but that young lady is evidently fully able to keep him at a very pleasant distance. It excites the captain's admiration to see how perfectly lady-like, how really gracious is her manner to the aspiring widower, and yet how serenely unencouraging. No one understood this better than Mr. Gleason himself.