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When I was sixteen I toyed with things like that." "You forget, avuncular," Kit retorted, "that I wasn't raised on bear-meat." "And I'll toy with it when I'm sixty." "You've got to show me." John Bellew did. He was forty-eight, but he bent over the sack, applied a tentative, shifting grip that balanced it, and, with a quick heave, stood erect, the somersaulted sack of flour on his shoulder.
Besides calls on his sick, he was very anxious to get uptown before dinner and inquire after his uncle Armistead Beirne, who had lain ill, with a heavy, rather alarming illness, since a day or two after his New Year's reception. This call was purely avuncular, so to say, Mr. Beirne employing a reliable physician of his own.... The young man picked up his doctor's bag and opened the door.
Yet as for that, I could live, I believe, with children; to have those Pure and delicate forms encompassing, moving about you, This were enough, I could think; and truly with glad resignation Could from the dream of romance, from the fever of flushed adolescence, Look to escape and subside into peaceful avuncular functions.
I was forgetting," he corrected himself, with an avuncular, ironic smile. "You're not supposed to have seen me, are you?" Then she was outside in the din; and from thrilling altitudes she had to bring her mind to marketing. She hid under apples the flat blue parcel in the basket.
He had also shaved off his silken mustache for the same prudential reasons, but had only succeeded in uncovering the delicate lines of his handsome mouth, and so absurdly reducing his apparent years that his avuncular pretensions seemed more preposterous than ever; and when he had rung the bell and was admitted by a severe Irish waiting-maid, his momentary hesitation and half humorous diffidence had such an unexpected effect upon her, that it seemed doubtful if he would be allowed to pass beyond the vestibule.
"She will have a very valuable consignment of timber, however, when she comes into Forest Hill." "Which adjoins 'The Towers! The Avuncular will be death on it! What an unfortunate idea to take up!" "Can't you do it?" asked the girl, looking askance. "I don't want to offend his Lordship. I'd ride for a fall. Any chance of a refusal, Kate?" "That wouldn't satisfy him.
When the young people, so to speak, came to the rescue of the avuncular hulk, it was already beginning to drift into the corner of the harbour devoted to derelicts. When Dick married, his uncle was already settling down in a narrow groove among the people of yesterday; now he felt that he had once more established his foothold among the people of to-day.
What, in the next place, was the nature of this regard? Was it merely avuncular, or something different? Drayton assured himself that it was the former. He was a man of the world, and had done with passions. The idea of his falling in love made him smile in a deprecatory manner. That the object of such love should be a girl eighteen years his junior rendered the suggestion yet more irrational.
When I was sixteen I toyed with things like that." "You forget, avuncular," Kit retorted, "that I wasn't raised on bear-meat." "And I'll toy with it when I'm sixty." "You've got to show me." John Bellew did. He was forty-eight, but he bent over the sack, applied a tentative, shifting grip that balanced it, and, with a quick heave, stood erect, the somersaulted sack of flour on his shoulder.
I wouldn't let him get away till he promised. And the beauty of it is, that it doesn't cost us anything." The next Kit heard of the Klondike was when he dropped into the club that afternoon, and, in an alcove off the library, encountered his uncle. "Hello, avuncular relative," Kit greeted, sliding into a leather chair and spreading out his legs. "Won't you join me?"
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