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'You will, I suppose, Herbert answered, rather chillily: 'but that subject is one upon which we shall be able to form a better opinion when the time comes for actually deciding it. Meanwhile, I want you to call me Herbert, if you please, as a personal favour and a mark of confidence.
She seemed to think that this was a piece of swagger on my part and, after disagreeing with a lofty shake of her head, said in a challenging manner: "I should be curious to know, Miss Tennant, what you have read by Symonds!" Feeling I was being taken on, I replied rather chillily: "Oh, the usual sort of thing!"
He came up and asked if he might walk with us." "Did you have a pleasant walk?" asked Mrs. Bowen, a breath more chillily than she had asked if they had a pleasant drive. "Yes, pleasant enough. And then we came back and went down the river bank, and he skipped stones, and we took him to his hotel." "Was there anybody you knew in the Cascine?" "Oh no; the place was a howling wilderness.
"I'm sorry you've had this break-down," said Bagley, addressing the party collectively. "Won't you do me the honor of using my car? You're not likely to find an open carriage in this neighborhood." "Thank you," said Edna Hill, chillily. "We can't think of putting you out." "Oh, you won't put me out. There's nobody but me and the chauffeur. My car holds six people.
He smiled somewhat chillily, it must be admitted and whispered, his speaking voice being shut off by the garrote. "The quicker you look, the sooner I shall, I hope, be released from this rather uncomfortable position." "Good eye!" said Crenshaw. "You're a reasonable man, Mr. Harleston, it's a pleasure to do business with you." "Proceed!" Harleston whispered.
I had no idea that my account of it could lead to such interesting views. You do surprise me." "Mr. Dunwoodie, you said the ceremony was performed by a gardener who pretended to be a clergyman. Those were your very words." "Yaas. Let the cat out of the bag, didn't I?" Archly but chillily Jeroloman smiled.
The studious young ladies at Alton College, elbows on desk and hands over ears, shuddered chillily in fur tippets whilst they loaded their memories with the statements of writers on moral science, or, like men who swim upon corks, reasoned out mathematical problems upon postulates.
A sad life was hers, for she repelled all sympathy, and yet later I had reason to believe that she half broke her heart because none loved her well. She was ever gloomy, unsympathising, carping, but she worked herself to death for those whose love she chillily repulsed. She worked till, denying herself every comfort, she literally dropped.
And he glared maliciously at the Rovers and Stanley Browne. "Oh, Professor, can you er help us?" murmured Stanley. "We er are in a lot of trouble." "So I see," answered Abner Sharp chillily. "Nice doings, I declare! Don't you think so?" he added to the other professor. "It is too bad," murmured Professor Blackie. "I thought them all rather nice lads."
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