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He looked with admiration at the stately lines of the building which sheltered the law-makers, and bared his head to the Stars and Stripes floating lazily to and fro from the flag poles on each wing of the Capitol. "I can't help it," with a quick, boyish laugh. "I have seen too many die in defense of the flag not to salute it on all occasions." Nancy nodded comprehendingly.
That is where you fail to grasp the subtleties of British statesmanship. I tell you there are no flies on our Cabinet!" "Flies?" "Yes: mouches, you know. The agility of our Cabinet Ministers is such that these little insects find it impossible to alight upon them." "Your Ministers are athletes yes," agreed Achille comprehendingly. "But the " "Only intellectually.
"Oh," comprehendingly, "one of your protégées, whom you are trying to marry off. I assure you once and for all, Kitty, that such will not do for me. I want the real thing in fairy princesses; under an enchantment, detained in the home of a wicked ogre; all that, you know, and lovely and forlorn." She looked at him oddly. "If you only knew how you confirm my impression." "Of what?"
It was only two hours since they had parted, but Lord Fordyce looked like an old man. "I have come to tell you, my Father," he said, "that I know all of the story now, and it is terrible enough; but I want you to help me to secure her happiness. Michael Arranstoun is her husband, as you supposed, and she loves him." The old priest nodded his head comprehendingly, and Henry went on.
No room to run along, after you're down." "What's the matter with Franklin Field?" cried Mr. Damon. "Out where they play football." "Good! The very thing!" shouted Tom. "Mr. Fenwick lives near there," went on Mr. Damon, and Tom nodded comprehendingly. They were now over North Philadelphia, and, in a few minutes more were above the Quaker City itself.
The officers allotting berths nodded comprehendingly on hearing the names of the two girls. "Oh yes you're together." He gave them their number. "Together how curious!" said Cecilia. "Not a bit; you're the only unmarried ladies on board. And they're packed like sardines not a vacant berth on the ship. Over two thousand men and two hundred officers, to say nothing of wives and children."
I snatched up what there were without realizing whether there were two sheets or three, laid them in the flat bottom of the case, and folded her clothing on top of them." "I see," said Mr. Snow comprehendingly. "Now let's experiment a little. Of course the window before that table was raised?" "Yes, it was," said Linda, "but every window in the house is screened."
He attended the gambling in the smoking saloon, and listened gravely to the fragmentary hymns attempted on Sunday. These human activities were all definitely outside him; charged with a higher purpose, he watched them comprehendingly, his lips bearing the shadow of a saddened smile; essentially he was alone, isolated.
"I was never a very solemn codger, was I?" he returned. "But are you happier? Does the world look different? Of course it does, with your mother well." "Oh yes," he answered in a changed tone, tossing his head back, and making a gesture as of throwing away something. "There was nothing in it before, nothing in it." "Yes, yes, I know," she returned comprehendingly.
All that I could do would be to describe a mood, a passion that takes me now and then, and makes me want to smash things." She nodded her head comprehendingly. "Yes, I know that." "Not from the same reason," Sommers laughed. "I will tell you what it is: you think the rich are unfair. You didn't like Uncle Brome's talk about the Pullman people."
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