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Updated: June 12, 2025
But Lon and I were too late," said the old Captain, shaking his head sadly. "Those scoundrels had got there ahead of us, led by the men we had first beaten off, and they had done their worst. "The good old Señor as harmless and lovely a soul as ever lived had been brutally murdered. One or two of his servants had been killed, too for appearance's sake, I suppose.
So they sat there wool-gathering, striking a few blows with the hammer now and then for appearance's sake, and one or another would fall asleep again over the table. They all started when three blows were struck on the wall as a signal for Pelle. "What are you doing? It seems to me you are very idle in there!" the master would say, staring suspiciously at Pelle.
These big blacks are my servants for appearance's sake only. They are in reality my keepers. The old man sent them along to see that I did come back, one way or another. They'd just as soon throttle me as eat." "It would be easy to lose them up here, I should say." "Well, I reckon you don't know a Patagonian. They can scent like a bloodhound and they never give up.
Second and third school passed before he was able to renew his search, and this time he was successful. Just as he was beginning to give up hope, and was meditating a show-up for appearance's sake at the cricket practice, he caught sight of Silk lolling on a bench in a distant corner of the Big. His heart sunk as he made the discovery, but it was no time for consulting his inclinations.
When she reached the Martins' house she was dizzy and faint from the heat and the blinding glare. Judge Martin and Arthur came home to dinner, and both expressed the greatest sympathy for her and Checkers in their sudden misfortune. At the table Pert tried to eat for appearance's sake, but her efforts ended in mere pretense.
So they sat there wool-gathering, striking a few blows with the hammer now and then for appearance's sake, and one or another would fall asleep again over the table. They all started when three blows were struck on the wall as a signal for Pelle. "What are you doing? It seems to me you are very idle in there!" the master would say, staring suspiciously at Pelle.
And then our landlady gave me notice, because in the broad light of mid-afternoon Fanny had stumbled over the front door-mat on entering the house, and lain there, laughing and singing; she had refused to move, and had had to be dragged upstairs for appearance's sake. The landlady must have occupied ten minutes, I think, in giving me notice.
"Please, Johnnie, please, dear friend ... I wish you to stay while I myself go. Finish reading the poem to Hildreth ... I think I have been too harsh in my judgment of both of you ... only please do be more discreet, if only for appearance's sake, in the future.... "Sit down where you were. I wish to show that I trust you both.... "Good-night, Hildreth!" and he kissed his wife in fond contrition.
Emma gave him back the letter; then at dinner, for appearance's sake, she affected a certain repugnance. But as he urged her to try, she resolutely began eating, while Charles opposite her sat motionless in a dejected attitude. Now and then he raised his head and gave her a long look full of distress. Once he sighed, "I should have liked to see him again!" She was silent.
But there was impetus enough for that and to spare, and, after satisfying their mere physical needs, they swept on with a sort of inspired hunger for things to satisfy their minds and souls. Europeans are accustomed to think that the American desire for culture is something superficial something put on for appearance's sake; and nothing could well be farther from the truth.
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