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But I guess it's soon enough, today. Has he showed any signs, yet?" He nodded inquiringly at the impassive Lad, as he spoke. "'Soon enough' for what?" queried the puzzled Master. "And what sort of 'signs' are you talking about?" "Soon enough to shoot that big brown collie of yours," explained Wefers, with businesslike briskness. "And I'm asking if he's showed any signs of hydrophoby. Has he?"
The adventure had taken on a grim and serious turn, and Van Bibber gave an imperceptible shrug and a barely audible exclamation of disgust as he accepted it. "Because," continued his new opponent with business-like briskness, "if you're looking for a fight, you can set right to me.
It's better to be in time, you see." Eileen nodded: "Yes, it is better to be in plenty of time. You can't tell what Sultana may forestall you." "So you'll tell him, won't you?" inquired Drina with business-like briskness. Miss Erroll looked absently at her: "Tell who what?" "Uncle Philip that you're going to marry him when you're old enough." "Yes when I'm old enough I'll tell him, Drina."
Home, and children that need you, and depend on you to keep them alive, and turn to you with their wrinkly little smiles. And the hearth and " She hid her face from Carol as she made an activity of patting the cushion of her chair, but she went on with her former briskness: "I mean, you must help us when you're ready. . . . I'm afraid you'll think I'm conservative. I am! So much to conserve.
Letts responded, but without briskness, and, with such moral support as an arm of each could afford, walked slowly back. Arrived at a road of substantial cottages at the back of the town, Mrs. Green gasped, and, coming to a standstill, nodded at a van that stood half-way up the road. "There it is," she exclaimed. "What?" demanded Mr. Letts. "The furniture I told you about," said Mrs. Green.
At the breakfast-table Mr. Pole was a little late. He wore some of his false air of briskness on a hazy face, and read prayers drawing breath between each sentence and rubbing his forehead; but the work was done by a man in ordinary health, if you chose to think so, as Mrs. Chump did. She made favourable remarks on his appearance, begging the ladies to corroborate her. They were silent.
The problem really disturbed the young minister's mind throughout the meal, and his abstraction became so marked at last that his wife commented upon it. "A penny for your thoughts!" she said, with cheerful briskness. This ancient formula of the farm-land had always rather jarred on Theron. It presented itself now to his mind as a peculiarly aggravating banality.
Descending again to the basement hall, an elderly gentleman came in, and was warmly welcomed by Dr. . He was a very short man, but with breadth enough, and a back excessively bent, bowed almost to deformity; very gray hair, and a face and expression of remarkable briskness and intelligence.
The look was interpreted by Nesta as belonging to the social annoyances dating, in her calendar, from Creckholt, apprehensively dreaded at Lakelands. She hinted asking, and her mother nodded; not untruthfully; but she put on a briskness after the nod; and a doubt was driven into Nesta's bosom. Her dear Skepsey was coming down to her for a holiday, she was glad to hear.
There was an air of briskness about her; as she turned away to go into the house, she laughed gaily with the Major's gardener over something he said, and this unconcerned cheerfulness of her was terrible to her son.
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