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"And it is not altered?" "I believe it is to be altered that is the truth is, sir, that Mr. Vavasour shrinks so much from the very notion of cholera, that " "That he does not like to do anything which may look like believing in its possibility?" "He says," quoth Tom, parrying the question, but in a somewhat dry tone, "that he is afraid of alarming Mrs. Vavasour and the servants."
"You speak shrewdly; Sir, for one so young," returned the old man, looking hard at me; "and I will be sworn you have suffered some cares; for we never begin to think till we are a little afraid to hope."
In the days that followed he seemed to Eleanor often agitated and ill at ease. She was puzzled, too, by his manner towards Lucy. In truth, he watched Miss Foster with a timid anxiety, trying to penetrate her character, to divine how presently she might feel towards him. He was not afraid of Mrs. Burgoyne, but he was sometimes afraid of this girl with her clear, candid eyes.
I might have been something more, I might have been a happy woman, if I could have prevailed on myself to speak to Julian Gray." "What hindered you from speaking to him?" "I was afraid." "Afraid of what?" "Afraid of making my hard life harder still." A woman who could have sympathized with her would perhaps have guessed what those words meant.
I'm afraid I'm not very happy in my philosophy after all." He rose, hands in pockets, and tried to pace up and down the narrow little room. "Don't move the chairs, please," said she. "I know where they all are now." He laughed, and again seated himself. "You know why I've come up? I suppose Sim has told you that we're going to have a soldier post here in your yard?"
"What's the use?" panted Prescott, halting. "Mr. Fits has a good start and can make fine speed. We could catch only the constable." So the Grammar School boys slowed down. Constable Dock and his deputy were now almost out of sight among the trees, and no eye among the boys could see how much in the lead Mr. Fits was. "They'll never catch him," sighed Dave. "I'm afraid not," agreed Dick.
'In the first place, it doesn't surprise me in the least, Maria Nikolaevna interrupted; 'I have no prejudices either. I'm the daughter of a peasant myself. There! what can you say to that? What does surprise and delight me is to have come across a man who's not afraid to love. You do love her, I suppose? 'Yes. 'Is she very pretty?
A man has lost so many hours. The question, what he did during those hours, is one that may well appal any one. Lieutenant Scrope doubted whether that question would trouble a man, and needed an instance. I believe here is the instance. I believe Knightley is afraid to ask any questions, and I believe his reason to be fear of how he lived during those lost hours." There was a pause.
Even "the ablest of his adversaries confessed themselves afraid of his pen."
I only wish I was the prof, now, I'd change places quickly enough. I'm afraid I'm a coward." He wondered if they guessed how scared he was; he hoped not. He pedaled around to the courts, where Cap. Smith was waiting to play tennis, and he put on an infant bravado which secretly pleased the Sophomore. After a few sets Cap. put his racket under his arm.
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