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'You will feel, I am sure, continued his mother-in-law, 'that this must put an end to your most unhappy differences. 'How can it have that result? 'It puts you both in a very different position, does it not? But for your distressing circumstances, I am sure there would never have been such unpleasantness never. Neither you nor Amy is the kind of person to take a pleasure in disagreement.
Then Margaret promptly took the edge off his anger by saying with menacing sweetness, "I'm sorry the fun has gone further than was desirable, but I will not have the girl blamed for what was in her a brave deed, nor suffer any unpleasantness here on account of it. Pray be seated." This ended the matter, and Maclachlan, with a wry smile, settled down again to his fish.
Mr Ford and I did not get on very well together, and a year ago we were divorced in Washington, on the ground of incompatibility, and and She choked. His lordship, a young man with a shrinking horror of the deeper emotions, whether exhibited in woman or man, writhed silently. That was the worst of these Americans! Always getting divorced and causing unpleasantness. How was a fellow to know?
"We court criticism, but this is mere abuse. I appeal to these gentlemen to say whether this, for instance, is not bright and interesting." He picked up the current number of Cosy Moments, and turned to the Kid's page. "This," he said. "Describing a certain ten-round unpleasantness with one Mexican Joe.
"Please, sir, Leigh hit me, sir," said the sneak, glibly, in a whining voice that was very different to the bullying tone he had adopted when catechising me before our "little unpleasantness" occurred. "Ah Leigh ah you see my boys tell the truth," observed the Doctor parenthetically to me; and then, turning again to Slodgers, he said, inquiringly, "And, I suppose, you then ah returned his blow?"
Notwithstanding the unpleasantness of being shut up, I felt that if the management of the weather had been left to me I could not have arranged things better for my first night in a Trappist monastery. Here I was in the midst of the desolation of the Double under the same roof with men who were driven into this shelter by the desolation of their souls.
'It's lucky she didn't go at a less convenient time. Was there some unpleasantness between you? 'I had warned her, for her own good, sir, that was all. And there's something else I had perhaps better tell you now, sir. Her voice, with its pleasant Welsh accent, faltered ominously. 'I'm very sorry indeed to say it, sir, but I shall be obliged to leave as soon as Mrs. Rolfe can spare me.
Lord Westerham, in addition to being a gentleman and a soldier, was also one of the most frankly open-minded men that another honest man could wish to have anything to do with, and so, after a long pull at his cigar, he looked round and said: "My dear Lennard, we were school-fellows once, and we managed to worry through Cambridge together you with a great deal more kudos than I did and we have been very good friends since, so there can't be any question of impertinence between us, although there might be some unpleasantness for one or both of us.
Nevertheless she had a heaviness of heart, a natural distress as to the unpleasantness in prospect; and had only the slightest hope that Ed would ignore or refuse to hear Burkhardt's story. The man would tell her lover, of that she might rest assured, out of hatred for the engineer if for no other reason.
There were loaves of bread that reminded one of the stories of hardtack in Cuba during the late unpleasantness. There were English muffins that rested upon poor Brinley's digestion as the world may fairly be presumed to rest upon the shoulders of Atlas, and, indeed, it is a tradition in the Brinley family that one of this cook's pie-crusts rivalled Harveyized steel in its impenetrability.
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