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"Triggernometry?" suggested the Nueces infant. "That's rather better than I hoped from you," nodded the Easterner, approvingly. "The other meaning is that Buckley never goes into a fight without giving away weight. He seems to dread taking the slightest advantage.

He did his best to talk, and talk entertainingly, for no other reason than that it was expected of him. At last he said something which struck the right chord. The perfect Mabel smiled approvingly at him, and he noticed for the first time that her eyes were gray. Suspiciously he glanced across the table at Jane.

"Black fellows all about," he said, looking approvingly at the fortification, the object of which he at once understood. He told them that they need not expect an attack for some time, though he was certain that the black fellows would surround them should they venture down into the plain on foot.

"No, I will not, Rosie; I ought to have known you were but jesting, and I beg your pardon," Lulu said, and her father smiled approvingly upon her. "Cousin Ronald," said Walter, "can't you make some fun for us to-morrow with your ventriloquism?" "Oh, do, Cousin Ronald, do!" cried the girls in eager chorus.

The heart under the fluffy frock she slipped on to-night was not so heavy as the one under the white gown worn that day when she stood by Win in the Manor library and watched the boat for St. Malo leave the harbor. Frances and Edith were ready when she came for them, also prettily dressed in white. "Nice little English flappers," Constance remarked approvingly.

That he should be able to say something is perhaps not at all surprising; but I especially admired this in him first of all, that he listened to the argument of the young men so sweetly, affably, and approvingly; in the next place, that he so quickly perceived how we were affected by their arguments; and, lastly, that he cured us so well and recalled us, when we were put to flight, as it were, and vanquished, and encouraged us to accompany him, and consider the argument with him.

I had nothing to do with the Othello," said Bacon. "I never really knew who wrote it." "Never mind about that," whispered Shakespeare. "You've said enough." "That's good too," said Nero, with a chuckle. "Shakespeare here claims it as his own." Bacon smiled and nodded approvingly at the blushing Avonian. "Will always was having his little joke," he said. "Eh, Will?

Then she turned approvingly to the litter which betokened that this was a bedroom visited by insomnia more often than by sleep: the half-dozen boxes of different sorts of cigarettes, the plate of apples and figs, the pile of books, the portfolio of prints. It had been dreadful, that night at the hotel, with nothing to read. She was very glad to come home.

"It was right for her to put her foot down," returned David approvingly. "Why on earth need he scruple to accept your hospitality! Somehow I always liked Herrick, though I am not so sure that he returned the compliment; perhaps under the circumstances one could hardly expect it." Elizabeth's face grew hot the subject was a painful one to her. "Never mind about Mr.

"And I should think she would with such a mother," exclaimed the old gentleman, but in a guarded tone. "Well, what of it, Polly?" "Grandpapa," said Polly, "she says her mother is going to take her back to Paris tomorrow morning." "How very fine!" exclaimed Mr. King, approvingly; "that is the best thing I have heard yet.