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"It has always been this way with him," Nancy went on, dabbing her eyes with her two-by-four handkerchief. "We never dreamed that he was going into the Army till he came home one night and announced that he had successfully passed his examinations for West Point. He goes and gets shot, and we never know anything about it till we read the papers.
Gunning morosely dabbing his long nose with the repulsive sponge that was shared by the troupe, almost moved her to compassion. A pleasing impatience was already betraying itself in cat-calls and stampings from the sixpenny places, and Mrs.
She came to the door at the end of the hall upon which was printed, "John Regis, Attorney-at-law." She opened it without knocking and stood upon the threshold. "Well, John Regis, you must think you are still a young man, keeping your office at the top of this ladder staircase," she complained, raising her handkerchief and dabbing her face.
At the same moment the cup that Tudor was filling overflowed, and he whispered something under his breath and set down the tea-pot. Avery turned towards him instinctively, to see him dabbing the table with his handkerchief. "It's almost too dark to see what one is doing," he said. "It is," she assented gravely, and turned back quietly to the fire, not offering to assist.
"I should think it would indeed!" cried Lucy, dabbing her eyes with her scented handkerchief; "He would have left me every penny he has in the world if I had refused him! He told me so as coolly as possible!" Mrs. Sorrel sank back with a groan. "Oh dear, oh dear!" she wailed feebly. "Can nothing be done?" "Nothing!"
'And, he cried, dabbing at his tears, 'Sandy would sure take a man by the mit and lead him to the spot, only just then a big bird, size of half a dozen ostriches, flops down and sinks its claws into that there bull calf and flies right straight over the moon with it! Ain't that what you said, Sandy? 'You're a fool, Bandy O'Neil, and always will be a fool, muttered Sandy Weaver stiffly.
It was two o'clock when I woke, and, arter a couple o' pork-pies and a pint or two, I sat on a seat in the Park smoking, while she kep' dabbing 'er eyes agin and asking me to come 'ome. At five o'clock I got up to go back to the wharf, and, taking no notice of 'er, I walked into the street and jumped on a 'bus that was passing.
"Ah, I wish you could see him, sir," continued Ramball, dabbing his head pleasantly with his yellow handkerchief. "Bah Klay is quite an addition to my show, and the people come in hundreds to see him and the Rajah alone. It was him himself as came to me one day and proposed it." "What, the Rajah?" cried Glyn. "The Rajah! Tchah! What are you talking about? No; Bah Klay.
Stone was dabbing at his mouth with a handkerchief, a task which precluded anything in the shape of conversation; so Robinson replied that Mike's study was the first you came to on the right of the corridor at the top of the stairs. "Thanks," said Adair. "You don't happen to know if he's in, I suppose?" "He went up with Smith a quarter of an hour ago. I don't know if he's still there."
I had as yet broken nothing of my designs to Mistress Pennyquick, foreseeing trouble in that quarter. It was pitiful to see her, who had been such a bustling housewife, sitting the greater part of the day with her hands in her lap, or dabbing the tears from her eyes, and to hear her melancholy plaints, which grew the more frequent as the time drew nearer for leaving the old house.
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