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"Good for you, Jasper!" I cried warmly, and took the hand he proffered. "Colingraft, please take me to my room," murmured the mother. "I I feel faint. Send for Aline. Ask Mr. Bangs to come to me at once." I bowed stiffly. "I am sorry, Mrs. Titus, to have been so harsh, so assertive " She held up both hands. "I never was so spoken to in all my life, Mr. Smart.
"'Couldn't nobody look more fit, sir, he says, an' I'm dum'd," said David, with an assertive nod, "when I looked at myself in the lookin'-glass. "People don't dress for dinner in Homeville, as a rule, then," John said, smiling. "No," said Mr. Harum, "when they dress fer breakfust that does 'em fer all three meals.
Her tone conveyed a hint that Edgar had his limitations and he was not an altogether satisfactory exchange for his partner; but George laughed. "He now and then goes farther than I would care to venture." Flora looked at him with faint amusement. "Yes," she said. "That's one of the differences between you; you're not assertive. It has struck me that you don't always realize your value."
Alfred was a noisy and assertive little person, whose complacent bullying of her husband caused his mother keen distress. Alfred was a bookkeeper now, in the bakery of his father-in-law, in the Mission, and was a changed man in these days; his attitude toward his wife was one of mingled fear and admiration.
One goes down the widening reaches through a monstrous variety of shipping, great steamers, great sailing-ships, trailing the flags of all the world, a monstrous confusion of lighters, witches' conferences of brown-sailed barges, wallowing tugs, a tumultuous crowding and jostling of cranes and spars, and wharves and stores, and assertive inscriptions.
In the figure of the other man, Walter Sayers, there was something less aggressive, less assertive. She clung to that. She put her arm about the trunk of the old apple tree and laid her cheek against its rough bark.
The passion for flagstaffs must, I think, be derived from the fact that most of the people who build these houses have had a long sea-journey from England, and retain a little ozone in their composition. There is also something assertive about a flag. A man who has a flag floating on his house is almost sure to have some character about him.
Frances had heard the cattleman's loud demand for instant audience. Now the maid was explaining in temporizing tones. "The colonel he's busy with military matters this early in the day, sir, and nobody ever disturbs him. He don't see nobody but the officers. If you'll step in and wait " "The officers can wait!" Chadron said, in loud, assertive voice that made the servant shiver. "Where's he at?"
So gratified was Douglass for this kindness, he made himself agreeable till such time as Helen, in brilliant evening-dress, came out; and when Hugh left them together he was less assertive and brusque in manner. She was so luminous, so queenly, she dissipated his cloud of doubts and scruples, and the tremor of the boyish lover came back into his limbs as he turned to meet her.
The two sisters gazed at each other aghast. The man was so assertive and coarse, and the child was so far from gentle that it seemed impossible that she could be of their own blood. Still, they remembered that surroundings have greater influence than inheritance, so they held their peace, though Miss Maria stretched out her hand to Mary. Mary stared at it but made no move to take it.
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