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"'Lo," said the boy with an ingratiating smile. "My name's John Fletcher." "Mine's Francis Yager," spoken with equal curtness. "Live here?" asked the first baseman of the "Tigers." The boy admitted that such was the case. "There's my house," explained John, pointing with an inkstained finger. There was an awkward silence. Francis bounced his ball against the side of the house a few times.
"A boy messenger with four medals. There was a crest on the envelope an elephant rampant surrounded by a swarm of bees." A dogged look of combined terror and resolution overspread the young librarian's countenance. "There's been no elephant and no swarm of bees in here," he said with trembling curtness. "You are sure you would have remembered the circumstance if there had been?" "Rather!
"I I cannot thank you, Doctor Cole." Kenny hung up, unaware that the doctor was adding further detail. Almost at once he unhooked the receiver and summoned the club central. Afterward Pietro, who took his turn at the switchboard when the day operator departed, spoke of the quiet curtness of his voice. "Pietro? Mr. O'Neill speaking.
On the same date as that of the preceding letter, February 21, the following appeared in the "Congressional Globe," and its very curtness and flippancy is indicative of the indifference of the public in general to this great invention, and the proceedings which are summarized cast discredit on the intelligence of our national lawmakers: On motion of Mr.
"That's the privilege of friendship," he answered with a reassuring smile. "But why be careful of whom?" There was some curtness in his voice. "Symes?" "Yes of Symes." "And why Symes?" "You must remember that you are in a country where the people are poor and struggling. Money is power, and influence, and friends. He has all, and we have neither.
The veteran was a little whiter, a bit more dignified, and directed the movements of his modest force of office assistants with a curtness he had not shown at first; but no other sign betrayed that he knew his State Committee had "lain down on him." The Duke sauntered up the walk, whipping off his hat and swinging it in his hand as soon as he arrived under the trees of the old garden.
They conversed confidentially, they used each other's Christian names, but she was left with the sensation of having come up against an invisible barrier. There was no impact, and there was no curtness; there was simply empty space. She was not even sure that Lionel would have liked her at all if she hadn't been Winn's wife. As it was, he certainly wanted her friendship and took pains to win it.
"Luggage first," said Barebone, lapsing into the curtness of the sea. "Come along. Let us make haste." They stumbled on board as best they could, and were guided to a safe place amidships by Loo, who had thrown a spare sail on the bottom of the boat. "As low as you can," he said. "Crouch down. Cover yourselves with this. Right over your heads." "But why?" grumbled Marie.
"What is it?" And with the curtness of a great official he turned his ear to Stepan Trofimovitch with disdainful impatience, taking him for an ordinary person with a written petition of some sort. "I was visited and my house was searched to-day by an official acting in your Excellency's name; therefore I am desirous..." "Name? Name?"
"For any one but yourself," Madame Merle mentally observed; but the reflexion was perfectly inaudible. "I never sacrificed my husband to another," Mrs. Touchett continued with her stout curtness. "Oh no," thought Madame Merle; "you never did anything for another!"
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