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You understand, of course, that I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't been made to realize that your whole thought, throughout this experiment, has been of the play, and only of the play." She drew back and looked at him. "What do you mean?" "Why " It was hard to explain, but he blundered on. "I mean that, for a little time, I was fool enough to hope that that some day you might care for me.
A stalwart, hearty, rotund, and rubicund farmer he was, and in reply to my query how long the holdings he had lost had been in his family, he answered, "not far from two hundred years." Certainly some one must have blundered as badly as at Balaklava to make it necessary for a tenant with such a past behind him to go out of his holdings on arrears of a twelvemonth.
And let me tell you this, Capitao Makkay, whether you like it or not: Pedro and I would see this wild man and a million others like him in a hotter place than this before we would abandon fighting comrades." To which McKay, finding no adequate answer, made none whatever. Like a fleet manned by sightless sailors the line of boats blundered on through the blackness.
The point of view is original she insists on a man with a past!" "Oh, a past if she's serious I could rake up a past!" he said with a laugh. "So I suggested: but she has her eyes on his particular portion of it. She insists on making it a test case. She wanted to know what you had done to me; and before I could guess her drift I blundered into telling her." Thursdale drew a difficult breath.
Faringfield's company on the way to the warehouse, which they had almost reached ere Phil, very down in the mouth and perturbed, got up his courage to his unpleasant task and blundered out in a boyish, frightened way: "If you please, sir, I wished to tell you I've made up my mind to leave and thank you very much for all your kindness!" Mr.
It is melancholy to have to record failure, in whatever sphere or form; but truth compels us to state that at this particular moment Mark Railsford blundered grievously. Instead of deciding definitely there and then on his own authority whether dogs were or were not en regle in Railsford's house, he halted and hesitated. "That's against rules, isn't it?" said he.
I knew that Jerry had kept the matter secret even from Marcia. I figured that the revelation must have been something of a shock to one of her intriguing nature, but she covered her grievance skillfully. "Jerry is very generous," she said sweetly. "Do tell me about it." Here Jerry blundered in rather sheepishly. "Oh, I say, Una, that's a secret, you know." "Oh, is it?" said Una innocently.
"Command me. Why not begin at once? What apparatus or chemical agencies do you need?" "Ah!" said Margrave, "formerly, how I was misled! Formerly, how my conjectures blundered! I thought, when I asked you to give a month to the experiment I wish to make, that I should need the subtlest skill of the chemist.
Ricardo, at the bottom of them, was a black speck a bird that had blundered into the building by mistake and beaten itself breathless against the walls. As he saw Robert he began to drag himself up, limping. He seemed to shrivel then to a mere face, stricken and yellow, that gaped and mouthed. Robert did not move. He stood leaning against the balustrade.
But I canna think, he blundered on, 'I'm sayin', I canna think hoo I happened to get yer monkey up to begin wi' 'Excuse me! she cried, indignant. 'My monkey up, indeed! 'Weel, maybe it wasna exac'ly yer monkey up; but I want to ken what way ye didna write a nicer letter afore ye gaed awa'. Nae doobt ye was in a hurry, but it jist seemed as if ye didna care a button for me.
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