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True, in the course of the summer he learned to know other sides of Barbro's character, but on the whole, he was content. She had her fancies, and could answer hastily at times; was somewhat over-quick to answer back.
But it was at the other end of the huge building that there dwelt the solitary offspring of this unnatural union, a boy now in the eleventh year of childhood, companionless, physically inactive, mentally over-quick, perceptive, and quaintly imaginative.
Ebbo looked disconcerted, and gasped, as if this were over-quick work. "To-morrow!" he said. "Knows my mother?" "I go to speak with her at once. The Kaisar's consent I have, as he says, 'If we have one vassal who has common sense and honesty, let us make the most of him. Ah! my son, I shall return to see you his counsellor and friend."
"He is over-quick to take offence, Madonna, for an honest man," was Gonzaga's answer. "Like the snake in the grass, he is very ready with his sting when we seek to disclose him." "For shame, Gonzaga," she cried, now rising too. "What are you saying? Are you turned witless? Come, sirs, since you are both my friends, be friends each with the other."
Then I slipped away and paid marked and honorific courtesy to Bederhof's wife and Bederhof's daughters, tall girls, not over-quick to be married, somehow quite inevitable if one considered Bederhof himself. Rising from my plunge, I looked round for Elsa. She had left my mother and taken a seat in a recess by the window.
The following game is the game, and not the meeting one. The dog goes after the sheep, and not afore them, lad. Let them go by, and go by, and stick to them well to windward, and pick up stragglers, and pickings, too, Jack the prizes, Jack!" "Trust my old eyes for not being over-quick at seeing signals, if I be hanging in the skirts of a fat-looking Don.
The writer regretted his inability to give further information, and closed with kindly inquiries concerning his former employee's health, and earnest commendation of him to Mr. Brandt. Joel read the letter aloud, something some sturdy uprightness of his own, no doubt blinding him to its significance. "Will you read it ag'in, neighbor? I'm not over-quick."
I was only half re-assured by these expressions; I could not believe that the over-quick flow of her blood was a sign of health, or that her burning cheeks denoted convalescence. But I had no fears of an immediate catastrophe; nay, I persuaded myself that she would ultimately recover. And thus cheerfulness reigned in our little society. Idris conversed with animation on a thousand topics.
When a realising sense of the conditions had duly dawned on the not over-quick mind of the master of Greenwood, he put pride in his pocket and himself astride of Joggles, and rode of an afternoon to Boxley, as the Hennions' place was named. Without allusion to their last interview, he announced to the senior of the house that he wished to talk over the election. "He, he, he!" snickered Hennion.
I have been over-quick to think evil of you, ever since we met again. Perhaps, in the past, too" slowly "I have been " "Betty!" he cried uneasily, and seemed about once more to move away, when "Don't go," she said. "I'll not talk if you command me not to. You've been the master to-day, you know," with subtle accent. "Have I?" His voice showed evidence of distress.
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