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For the first time she found it easy to speak to him, and talked as she would have done to Peters. She spoke of his northern visit and, following his lead, of her work, freely and without embarrassment. Every moment the restraint that had been between them seemed growing less. She marvelled that she had ever found him unapproachable and wondered, contritely, if her shyness had been alone to blame.
Let me beg you let me entreat you to control your feelings, to make no indiscreet remarks; in fact, to make no remarks at all," he added, with the evident conviction that any remarks that Mr. Bellingham might make would be certain to be indiscreet. "Forgive me, Marchmont," Mr. Bellingham replied contritely. "I will control myself: I will really be quite discreet.
"Now you've done it!" cried Judith in distress. "She knows all about it, and I meant it for a surprise! Oh dear!" "I'm awfully sorry " began Madalon, contritely, but Judith was too deeply disappointed to be very polite.
"I thought you'd given that sort of thing up." "I meant to. I really did. I'm sorry!" the other exclaimed, contritely enough. Really he was a different sort of Mr. Sneed from the "human grouch" who often made matters so unpleasant for members of the Comet Film Company. Since he and Russ had so nearly faced death, Mr. Sneed was much braver and more cheerful.
"I am a member of the College of Surgeons," says Tom, recovering his coolness, "and have just been dining with Mr. Armsworth. I suppose you know him?" The assistant shook in his shoes at the name of that terrible justice of the peace and of the war also; and meekly and contritely he replied, "Oh sir, what shall I do?"
"Except you," she added contritely, clasping her hands around his shabby coat sleeve, "I have you, but it kills me to cling to you like a drowning man, while that girl smiles at you from the top of the wave, and owns everybody and everything!" "Edna does some very good thinking," was the quiet response. "Her temptations are different from yours, and she has struggled with them."
"I didn't mean to make an ass of myself," she said, contritely. "I'm awfully sorry, and you were such a brick to me, Jimmy. I won't ever forget it; only I couldn't take your horse. I love you for it. But Sirdar will do for me quite well." And no arguments could shake her from that decision. Jim put the light out after some time. Then he came back and sat down on the bed.
"Lysander Sproul, and you a father! This comes of consortin' with the ungodly, and settin' in the chair of the scorner." "Oh, come now, Minervy, I was only quotin'." Lysander's eye twinkled, but he spoke contritely, with generous consideration for his wife's condition, which was imminently delicate. "Oh, you're hystericky, Minervy. You'd best go to bed," observed her mother.
"What is it, dearest?" he contritely demanded, and after a long pause she said: "Nothing, except that I feel as if you had slapped me in the face." "I! Slapped you in the face!" He could only reëcho her words in bewilderment and distress. "I don't understand."
One knew exasperatingly little about her. It was said vaguely that Mantovani entertained a tender friendship for her, having been her husband's comrade in arms in half a dozen Carlist revolts. That seemed enough to explain the gift." At this point Anitchkoff must have caught my raised eyebrows, for he added contritely, "It was odd for Mantovani to give away a Giorgione. You're quite right.
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