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"If it comes to that there are a good many excuses for Helen de Vallorbes," Honoria put in quickly. "For? For?" the young man repeated, relaxing into the blandest of smiles. "Yes, thanks I see I was right. It was unnecessary to name names.
Ambler, he trod valiantly upon his gouty toe, and screwed his features into his blandest smile an effort which drew so heavily upon the source of his good-nature, that he arrived at Chericoke an hour later in what was known to Betty as "a purple rage." "You know I have always warned you, Molly," was his first offensive thrust as he entered Mrs.
I don't suppose they remember faces in so busy a place. Let us venture it." "I am sorry to trouble you," said he, in his blandest manner, to the young woman behind the grating; "there is some small mistake about a telegram I sent yesterday. I have had no answer, and I very much fear that I must have omitted to put my name at the end. Could you tell me if this was so?"
Still, to a keen observer, the constitutional tendencies of that nervous temperament were often visible, even in his blandest moments, even when his voice was most musical, his smile most gracious. "Thy name, friend?" "Hugh Withers, please you, my lord duke." "Um! North country, by thine accent. Dost thou serve this Master Warner?" "No, my lord, I was only hired with my mule to carry "
The British lion, however, in this case seemed to assert himself in the jury-box, and rising on his hind legs, said in a husky voice, which appeared to come from some concealed cupboard in his bosom, "My lord!" "Yes?" I said in my blandest manner. "My lord, this 'ere is a little bit stiff, my lord, with all respect for your lordship." "What is that, sir?"
"What prisoners?" demanded Stuart, shortly. Then Oconostota explained, with his blandest circumlocutions, that, partly as a check upon his dear brother's good faith, bound as he was by his oath of fidelity to the English government, and he almost choked with the relish of his derision every time he mentioned it, and to make sure that he should handle the guns properly, and fire them with due effect, not aiming them wildly, so that the balls might fly over the fort, or fall short, not spiking the guns, or otherwise demolishing them, all of which his great knowledge of the arm rendered possible, and the ignorance of the poor red man unpreventable, they had determined to take with them the remnant of the garrison, their lives to be pledges of his good conduct and effective marksmanship; and if at last his earnest and sincere efforts should prove unavailing, and the commandant should continue to hold out and refuse to surrender when finally summoned, these, the countrymen and fellow-soldiers of that officer, should be singly tortured and burned before his eyes, within full sight and hearing of Fort Prince George.
For the first minutes they hardly talked; they avoided each other's look, and exchanged only insignificant words. Then the editor, with his blandest smile, said in a note of sudden cordiality: "It has been a great pleasure to me to meet you, Mr. Lashmar. May I, without indiscretion, take it for granted that we shall soon be fighting the good fight together?"
"Howsum, I guess I'm goin' to look around for this feller. Y' see Rosebud's li'ble to like him. Mebbe he ain't well heeled for dollars, an' she's that tender-hearted she might I've got his pictur'. Mebbe I'll show it around eh, what's up?" Seth inquired in his blandest tone. Nevil suddenly sat up and there was a desperate look in his eyes.
Captain Peel, who was standing by, said, "Thank you, Mr Vaughan; perhaps you will now be so good as to blow up the tumbril." Lieutenant Vaughan fired a fourth shot, which passed near it, and a fifth, which blew it up, and killed several of the enemy. "Thank you," said Captain Peel, in his blandest and most courteous tones; "I will now go and report to Sir Colin."
G. has screwed him up to this," said the Count to himself. Aloud, he asked with his blandest air "Was not Lord Tulliwuddle available himself?" "No; he's gone out." "Alone?" "No, not alone." "In brief, with Miss Gallosh?" "Quite so; and what'll he be saying to her?" "He is a man of such varied information that it's hard to guess." "From all I hear, there's not been much variety so far," said Mr.
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