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"Oh, I hope it was not as bad as that," was the laughing response, for the singer had heard all about the adventure with the bear. "Not hardly as bad, Miss. But the scouts are all upset. When not playin' baseball, they are talkin' about what happened at the Review, till I'm almost discouraged." "It's only natural, captain. They'll get over their excitement in time.
With a strangely uncontrolled hand he wrote "I'm afraid I can't remember what I said in my letter last night. I was feeling too much upset. Didn't you ask me to lunch with you to-day? I'm afraid I'm feeling so ill that I've had to stay in bed. . . ." When his secretary arrived, he sent her to Berkeley Square with the note.
"What do you mean by saying you don't understand? It's all quite simple. If Teresa is angry, I'll tell her that we left the garden at nine o'clock; then I'll show her my watch." "But," cried Paula, quite upset, "that would be a lie!" "Nonsense, you foolish youngster, that's not a lie.
So well did I succeed that I had nearly upset my own plans, for poor Tessa, becoming discouraged, wanted to return home at once, but Tasso stoutly declared he would sell every orange before going back that his fruit was good and ripe, and it should be appreciated. I was pained to see Tessa's tears, but what could I do?
Where the original deed may be, I don't know even now. It may be among some of my father's papers, which are stored in New York. But the record of the transfers I found in Ostable; and that is sufficient. My claim may not be quite as impregnable as I gave my late client to understand, but it will be hard to upset. I am the only possible claimant and I have transferred my claim to Mrs. Barnes.
The mind of Poleon Doret worked in straight lines. Moreover, his memory was good. Stark's statement, which so upset Gale and the Lieutenant, had a somewhat different effect upon the Frenchman, for certain facts had been impressed upon his subconsciousness which did not entirely gibe with the gambler's remarks, and yet they were too dimly engraved to afford foundation for a definite theory.
Still, that letter was enough to upset anybody, and no wonder I ran right across my garden, through Billy's hedge-hole and over into Doctor John's office to tell him about it; but I ought not to have been agitated enough to let him take the letter right out of my hand and read it. "So after ten years Al Bennett is coming back to pop his bachelor's-buttons at you, Mrs.
She's so high strung, that this little accident of his has completely upset her. I notice that she sort of keeps out of the way of people. I'm pretty sure that yesterday she saw me coming and slipped out into the garden to avoid me think of that! Nervousness; pure nervousness. But I have a plan to brighten her up a little a surprise-party. What do you say?" Dr. Lavendar looked doubtful.
"It's curious that the more one thinks, John, the more one gets one's notions upset. I know quite well that most people would think it a highly dangerous doctrine to put forward, but I really cannot see that the man who is a saint deserves any more to be praised than the man who is a murderer. The murderer is simply unfortunate and ought to be pitied.
"His words set me thinking, and for the first time it struck me that I didn't want the bird that it was of no use to me at all. I was going down to spend the holidays with my young lady's people in Kent." "Was this the canary young lady?" I interrupted. "No," he replied. "This was before that one. It was this goose I'm telling you of that upset this one.
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