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The men shook hands, and stood constrainedly talking for a few minutes; then Mike suggested lunch, and they turned into Lubini's. The proprietor, a dapper little man, more like a rich man's valet than a waiter, whose fat fingers sparkled with rings, sat sipping sherry and reading the racing intelligence to a lord who offered to toss him for half-crowns.
He sat down, still constrainedly and clasped his hands, and womanlike, when she saw his agitation, her own lessened, and she assumed command, while she asked almost archly if he took cream and sugar. He liked neither, he said, and with the air of a little hostess she handed him the cup. Then she smiled softly and stood quite near him.
"Yes," said Allan, speaking, for the first time, a little constrainedly on his side. "It is only doing me justice to say that." He stopped and began drawing lines absently with his finger on the blurred surface of the window-pane. "You're not like other people, Midwinter," he resumed, suddenly, with an effort; "and I should have liked you to have heard the particulars all the same."
Calvert, he bowed constrainedly, and the red of his face deepened. He was more dissipated-looking, less debonair than he had seemed to Calvert in Madame d'Azay's salon. There was an uneasiness, too, in his manner that was reflected in the attitude toward him of the other gentlemen in the room. In fact, he was welcomed coldly enough, and in a few days he left the town.
But he was not only determined, but SHE was all the time conscious that he was a totally different man from the one she had taken care of, and merely ordinary prudence demanded that she should know something more of him first. She gave him her hand constrainedly; he pressed it warmly. Dr.
"But, Pa," Lydia laughed a little constrainedly, "we never have dinner until half-past six!" "Oh, on week days certainly," he agreed stiffly. "On Sundays, unless I am entirely wrong, we sit down before six." "Len," Martie murmured, "why don't you go make yourself some toast?" "Don't have to!" Len laughed with his mouth full. "Here I'll go out and make some more!"
'No, certainly not, said Helen, smiling a little constrainedly, as though her friend's vehemence struck her as slightly excessive. 'But he might, from what you tell me, be a man to marry. 'I couldn't marry a man I was not in love with. 'Not if he were sufficiently in love with you? Such faithful and devoted people are rare.
He slipped his gift into Marguerite's hand as she held it out to welcome him on the day of the dinner. "This is your first New Year's Day in England," he said. "Will you let me help to make it like a New Year's Day at home?" She thanked him, a little constrainedly, as she looked at the jeweller's box, uncertain what it might contain.
"I hardly hoped to find you." "I should have let you know that I was back." Their conversations were accustomed to begin awkwardly, constrainedly. They never spoke of ordinary topics, and each seemed to wait for a suggestion of the other's mood. At present Cecily was uneasy under her visitor's gaze, which was stranger and more inquisitive than usual. "So you have left the Denyers'?" she said.
He is expected in with another party on Monday, perhaps, Paul is to meet the Bowens at Challis, where they buy their outfit. I do believe" she laughed constrainedly "that he is going up there more to head them off than for any other reason." "How do you mean?" "Oh, it's very stupid of them! They seem to think an army post is part of the public domain.
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