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Updated: May 22, 2025
He had one of those figures which seem to give and take. He was well nourished, gifted conversationally, of a nimble wit, resourceful, apt. Moreover, home-grown watermelons were ripe. The Eighth of August, celebrated in these parts by the race as Emancipation Day, impended.
It bears resemblance to those accomplished natural actors, who conversationally present a dramatic situation in two or three spontaneous flourishes, and are themselves again, men of the world, the next minute. Skepsey handed it back. He spoke of a new French rifle. He mentioned, in the form of query for no answer, the translation of the barking little volume he had shown to Mr.
"They be telling up a tale in the village about the new lady as has taken the Priory," began Maria conversationally. Ann sugared her coffee with an air of detachment, and watched Robin fidgeting out of the tail of her eye. "You shouldn't listen to gossip, Maria," she reprimanded primly.
It embarrassed her to meet his gaze, it was so so investigating. She guessed he was by the sea because he felt as badly as he looked. He asked surprisingly: "Why are you here?" "On the account of my mother," she explained. "But it doesn't matter much where I am. Places are all alike," she continued conversationally. "We're mostly at hotels Florida in winter and Lake George in summer.
"It has been a success for me, artistically, and a great enjoyment. But there has been nothing in it for for Christ." She hesitated before the sacred name. Why was it so hard to speak it before him? He was silent. They were already by the simple mention of that name in deeper water, conversationally, than he was accustomed to. She had to go on.
Someone in writing about this critical period so conversationally difficult has contended that no person in his senses would think of wasting good talk in the drawing-room before dinner, but Professor Mahaffy thinks otherwise: "In the very forefront there stares us in the face that awkward period which even the gentle Menander notes as the worst possible for conversation, the short time during which people are assembling, and waiting for the announcement of dinner.
But whatever her almost joyous acceptance of the pretty lady promised for the future, it could not be said that, conversationally, Lucia was getting on very fast with Flossie in the present; and Rickman's abstraction did not make things easier. Therefore she was a little relieved when Miss Roots joined them, and Rickman, startled into consciousness, got up and left the room.
He was not cross, and he was blissfully unconscious that any one else had been. "Fill-Up and me is getting kind of tired of clearing off walks every single morning," he went on, giving the dog his nickname. Philip, who sat beside Sam on the front seat, wagged his tail conversationally. "Maybe we'll have another snow fight," suggested Meg. "That would be fun, wouldn't it, Bobby?"
That sounded pretty complacent, but barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. I do not know how it came about exactly, but gradually we appeared to melt down and run together, conversationally speaking, and then everything went along as comfortably as clockwork.
But it didn't make him conversationally any more exciting. He merely grunted. So she tried again. "I suppose," she said dreamily, "that the myth about mermaids must be founded in fact. Or is it sirens I'm thinking about? Perfectly fascinating, irresistible women, who lure men farther and farther out, in the hope of a kiss or something, until they get exhausted and drown.
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