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An' it's a hell of a world if men an' women sometimes can't talk to each other about such things." His manner was almost apologetic yet it was defiantly and assertively right. "I never talk this way to other girls. They'd think I'm workin up to designs on 'em. They make me sick the way they're always lookin' for them designs. But you're different I can talk to you that way. I know I've got to.
"And," said Bart, a little assertively, "I am not a school-boy." "So I perceive," said Ranney, coolly. "The fault I find with you geniuses " "We geniuses!! " "Is," said Henry, "you perpetually fly and caracol about, and just because you can, apparently, and for the fun of the thing." "Eagles fly," said Bart. "And so do butterflies, and other gilded insects."
It used to be the fashion once for engaged couples to be photographed together, didn't it?" "It's VERY much the fashion now," said Mrs. Brankley assertively, but some of the complacency had filtered out of her voice. Suzette came into the room, wearing the dress that she had worn in the Park that morning. "We met at Grindelwald, you know.
Ripley came to the window, buttoning her dress at the throat, a wisp of her hair sticking assertively from the little knob at the back of her head. "Lovely, ain't it! An' J've got to see it all day long. I can't look out the winder, but that thing's right in my face." It seemed to make her savage. She hadn't been in such a temper since her visit to New York. "I hope you feel satisfied with it."
The only thing was that her mother was, thank goodness, still so much prettier, still so assertively, so publicly, so trashily, so ruinously pretty. Wonderful the small grimness with which Julia Bride put off on this parent the middle-aged maximum of their case and the responsibility of their defect. It cost her so little to recognize in Mrs.
Never before had he understood the meaning of a crowd, that strange congregation of passions and of fates which speaks in movements and is melodious in attitudes, which quarrels in all its parts, silently, yet is swayed through and through by large impulses, and as an intellect far more keen and assertively critical than the intellect of any one person in it.
I waited a bit before answering that letter, and while I waited two more critiques appeared in two of the most assertively pompous and dictatorial journals of the day, echoing the eulogies of the Parthenon, declaring 'this dead poet' worthy 'to rank with the highest of the Immortals, and a number of other similar grandiose declarations.
Barbara's lips curled assertively. "I'm sorry you should suffer so much by association with me. . . . If you aren't expecting any one, will you dine with me, Eric?" He tried to review his position in the moment allowed him before his answer would begin to seem hesitating.
"Ye hired me to steal some stuff from the coats o' the young gents that study there. Then ye hired me to break inter Dick Prescott's room and get the loot inter his trunk. Right, ain't I?" Tip spoke assertively, making no effort to keep his voice low. "For goodness' sake don't shout it all over four counties," protested Fred Ripley, glancing apprehensively about him.
'Amen! said Yossel, still propped assertively on his crutches. The grandson turned upon the interrupter. 'But you can't take her with you? 'Why not? said Yossel calmly. Schneemann found himself expatiating upon the responsibility of looking after such an old woman; it seemed too absurd to talk of the scandal. That was left for the grandmother to emphasize.
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