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So, for the first time also in his chattering career, he held his tongue, reassured at moments, at other moments panic-stricken lest this marriage he had engineered should go amiss, and his ambitions be nipped at the very instant of triumphant maturity. "This sort of thing in your own caste among your own kind," his panicky thoughts ran on, "is b-bad form rotten bad taste on both sides.
The conversation was carried on in brief and broken phrases. The man and the woman sat close together shivering over the fire. There were no curtains to the windows, and the fog had crept through the sashes into the room. Kate coughed from time to time a sharp, hacking cough and Ralph's wheezing grew thicker in sound. 'I'm a-fraid I shall have a b-bad night, this dre-ad-ful weather.
"You're in a bad way, my friend." "B-bad way?" stammered Jason. "It it is n't six that ails me?" It was all fear this time in Jason's voice; some way the doctor's face had carried conviction. "No; you are threatened with more than six." "Wha-at?" Jason almost sprang from his seat. "But, doctor, they ain't dangerous!" "But they are, very!" "All of them? Why, doctor, how how many are thar?"
"I'm sure you'd be much happier as as you are." The man stared in puzzled surprise, then laughed grimly. "Upon my word, Pollyanna, is it quite so bad as that?" he asked. "B-bad?" Pollyanna had the appearance of being poised for flight. "Yes. Is that just your way of trying to soften the blow of saying that you don't think she'd have me, anyway?" "Oh, n-no no, indeed.
I did not know till yesterday how ... b-bad your eyes were" for she had nearly said the word blind "because they kept on making the best of it for our sakes, Irene and Mrs. Bailey did...." Adrian cut her speech across with an ebullition of sound sense a protest against extremes a counterblast to hysterical judgments. Obviously his duty!
We marched, as usual, in single file, along the path we had taken in our trip in March. Amos said, "I have no p-pleasant recollection of this place, and feel as if we should have some more b-bad luck." Rogers halted us and went forward with three men, to take a look at the fort. As he was returning, a large party of the enemy set upon us, and we had a lively fight.
"Don't you suppose dad's kept me p-posted about his faults? Why, he would walk a mile to find out something b-bad about Carter Nelson." "He wouldn't have to. Nelson's a bad lot, Nettie. It isn't all his fault; it's the price he pays for his blue blood. Your father's the wise man to try to keep you from being his wife."
As this pleasure was denied the Seminary, and the sight of the brake was too much for Speug's uncultured nature, he forgot himself, and yelled opprobrious names, in which the word "Bumbee" was distinct and prominent. "Your m-manners are very b-bad, Speug, and I am a-ashamed of you. D-don't you know that the 'B-bumbees' have been p-playing in England and w-won their match?
"`Oh! sir, said she, clasping her hands, `I've bin an' left my passel, a brown paper one it was, on the seat at the last station, an' there was a babby's muffler in it the sweetest thing as ever was an' f-fi' pun t-ten, on'y one sh-shillin' was b-bad boo-hoo!
"Yes," but it was scarcely a whisper, and the flaxen lashes were shuttering the gray eyes tight. "I I ought t' be able t' stand just hearin' it, if if they could stand the really thing." "I don't want t' break the wee heart o' ye," protested the Father, tenderly. "And so maybe we'll wait?" "No, sir." Johnnie opened his eyes. "I'm goin' t' feel b-bad. But please don't mind me.
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