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'Reconsider that, and give me my orders. 'No truly! Hazel answered, looking up at him. How busy the thoughts were. 'I am going to Reo's first. Have you any commands there? But she shook her head. 'No, Mr. Rollo, not any. He went off; and there was an interval somewhat quiet and untalkative between the two girls.
He looked the picture of disease. After Owd Bob's second victory he had become morose and untalkative. At home he often sat silent for hours together, drinking and glaring at the place where the Cup had been.
"Mother " he began. "How do you do," said the girls together, and actually with smiles. Edward had been deceiving her. That whole afternoon how quiet he had been, how listless. Quite gentle, quite affectionate, but listless and untalkative. She had thought he must be tired; worn out with his long journey across from Europe. She had made allowances for him; been sympathetic, been considerate.
"That child is going to devastate London." Now and then Lady Holme glanced towards Sir Donald and his son. They seemed as untalkative as she was. Sir Donald kept on looking towards Mrs. Wolfstein's table. So did Leo. But whereas Leo Ulford's eyes were fixed on Pimpernel Schley, Sir Donald's met the eyes of Lady Holme.
That you are a woman-hater and despise all women, and like to get off by yourself." "That's the reason I joined you and Dorothy," said Peter. "Do you hate women?" persisted Leonore. "A man is not bound to incriminate himself," replied Peter, smiling. "Then that's the reason why you don't like society, and why you are so untalkative to women. I don't like men who think badly of women.
He was a man named Goodrich, a quiet mannered, untalkative person, and as might be expected he had made little or no progress as yet. He said nothing could be done until after the funeral and the reading of the will, which ceremonies would occur the next afternoon. I talked but little to Mr.
Soon the carriage left the smooth streets of Edelweiss and he could tell, by the jolting and careening, that they were in the country, racing over a rough, rocky road. It reminded him of an overland trip he had taken in West Virginia some months before, with the fairest girl in all the world as his companion. Now he was riding in her carriage, but with a surly, untalkative soldier of the guard.
I was glad when she went off to college, because, though she's a kind-hearted girl, she was so peevish and untalkative it made me tired. I think people ought to be cheerful around their own homes. But the family didn't seem to see it; there are such a lot of us that you have to blow a trumpet before you get any special notice except me, when I don't wash my hands.
Though he went about somberly, untalkative and morose, the Chevalier proved himself a capital soldier, readily adapting himself to the privations of scouting and the loneliness of long watches in the night. He studied his Indian as one who intended to take up his abode among them for many years to come. He discarded the uniform for the deerskin of the trapper.
And the course of the hoofs was set midway between the looming masses of the mountain walls of the valley. Firio listened for songs from Señor Jack; he waited for stories from Señor Jack; but none came. He, the untalkative one of the pair, the living embodiment of a silent and happy companionship back and forth from Colorado to Chihuahua, liked to hear talk. Without it he was lonesome.
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