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And none of your men got up on Lookout Mountain any quicker'n we did. Paper collars and red stars showed you the way right along." "My pardner's only envious because he hain't no paper collars nor fine clothes," said Si, conciliatorily. "I've often told him that if he'd leave chuck-a-luck alone and save his money he'd be able to dress better'n Gen. Grant." "Gen.
The woman who has been sewing drops her work to shrug one rounded shoulder as though she were cold, and ask conciliatorily: "Well, WHAT province do you belong to?" "I?" the young fellow re-echoes as he subsides on to his heels. "I belong to Penza. Why do you ask?" "Oh never mind why."
"When do you expect to see your two old interesting twins again?" said she conciliatorily. For she felt that reasoning with her beautiful but irregular daughter was hopeless. The young lady explained that her next visit to Chorlton would be by way of an expedition from Pensham. Adrian and Irene would drive her over.
"My good man," he said conciliatorily, "you have brains. You ought to know that his excellency will receive no man in your condition. If you do not stop hammering on those bars, I shall send for the police." The carter thrust a hand through the grill. There was a ring on one of his fingers. "Imbecile, set your eye on that and admit me without more ado!" The majordomo was thunderstruck.
They suffer like the men, and must depend on their intelligence to win their way out of it. Rosamund's meditation was exclamatory: What can be the age of this pretentious girl? An afterthought turned her more conciliatorily toward the person, but less to the subject.
I was to be a good wife, and we weren't to have any words. Have I kept my promise?" "Yes, you've been a good woman, Beatty, better'n I deserved. But won't you take less, say fifty thousand?" He advanced conciliatorily. "That's an awful figure!" His wife rose, composed as ever and stately in her well-sustained forty years.
Not an ugly face, but certainly not an attractive one. "I think, sir," she said conciliatorily, "you have mistook me for someone else. I am sure." "Maybe, mother," said he, "you'll know me through your glasses. Got 'em on you?... Ah that's right! Fish 'em out of your pocket! Now!"
He had subsided on a rocking-chair, dropping his old cloth cap between his feet. "Whereabouts have you been to, Micky?" said his mother conciliatorily, to soothe her son's proud independent spirit. He recited his morning's work rapidly. "Linked an old cock down to Chiswick Mawl what was frightened to ride in a hansom, till half-past eleven, 'cos he could only go slow.
Uncle Martin was now standing, and swinging his hands horizontally in outward gestures, with his elbows against his sides. "Well, I wish to goodness there was some chance of realizing your hopes," said Charley, conciliatorily. "I must go. Good-by, Uncle Martin; good-by, Aunt Hannah." Uncle Martin said good-by, and come again, Charley, and always glad to see you, you know, and good luck to you.
The newcomer moved down the room with a subdued rustling of skirts, resolving at last into a neat and appealing feminine presence that smiled confidently and yet conciliatorily and offered a hand towards Selby. "It is the American Consulate, isn't it?" she asked again. Selby, ruffled like an agitated hen, woke to spasmodic movement, and took the hand.
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