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He asked me to!" Aline stamped her foot. "Well, never mind. Please don't do it." "Very well, little girl," said George softly. "I wouldn't do anything to hurt you." The fact that it never even occurred to George Emerson he was being offensively patronizing shows the stern stuff of which these supermen are made. The Efficient Baxter bicycled broodingly to Market Blandings for tobacco.
His features, always sharp, had grown yet more angular: his brows seemed to project more broodingly over his eyes, which, though of undiminished brightness, were sunk deep in their sockets, and had lost much of their quick restlessness. The character of his mind had begun to stamp itself on the physiognomy, especially on the mouth when in repose.
But what if she was to get nervous and lonesome, and want to go after him?" Mrs. Spragg shuddered away from the suggestion. "How'd he look? Just the same?" she whispered. "No. Spruced up. That's what scared me." It scared her too, to the point of blanching her habitually lifeless cheek. She continued to scrutinize her husband broodingly. "You look fairly sick, Abner.
If he carried this woman to her home, he could not see his Lady Beatrice, who, perhaps, would never forgive him for not appearing at her summons. The thought was as death to him, and he looked broodingly down at the poor woman.
Hiram stood looking broodingly at her for a long time; then at last he again spoke. "I thought a sight of you onc't, Sally," said he. Sally did not answer immediately, but, after a while, she suddenly looked up. "Hiram," said she, "if I tell ye something will you promise on your oath not to breathe a word to any living soul?" Hiram nodded.
Still, in this carnival night, Ian and Alexander found themselves together. They were sitting side by side, a third of the way between pavement and the topmost row. They sat still, broodingly, in a cloud of things rememberable, no distinct images, but all their common past, good and bad, and the progress from one to the other, making as it were one chord, or a mist of one color.
Old Man Shaw sat down with a long sigh, and dropped his white head wearily on his breast. He had decided what he must do. He would tell Blossom that she might go back to her aunt and never mind about him he would do very well by himself and he did not blame her in the least. He was still sitting broodingly there when a girl came up the lane.
Lizzie, bowed in anxious scrutiny above the shirts, broke into an unruffled laugh. "Really, Andora, really six, seven, nine; no, there isn't even a dozen. There isn't a whole dozen of anything. I don't see how men live alone!" Andora broodingly pursued her theme. "Do you mean to tell me it doesn't make you jealous to handle these things of his that other women may have given him?"
Take heed, Baron, Selpdorf is a slippery fish. 'But by this arrangement we land him finally. 'It may be so. Sagan tugged broodingly at his beard, after a pause adding, 'Well, well, the girl is safe enough for me, if you can answer for her. Come back and sit down. We must act while Gustave is here. Once we secure the Guard, we can force him to do as we please.
"Oh, I don't think that!" Harriet said, in honesty. "Mr. Carter stalked in upon us, at dinner " his wife said, broodingly. She fell into thought, and suddenly burst out, "Harriet, my heart aches for that boy! My God my God what have I done to him!" She rested her white full arms on the dressing table, and covered her face with her hands.
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