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I say here so that you may all know where I stand" her cheeks grew scarlet, and in the energy of her emotions she emphasized strongly "I will not declare the name of anyone who 'ponies' in class, nor will I cut them from my list of acquaintances. I shall let them know I despise such deception, but I shall treat them exactly as I have always treated them." With that she went back to her place.
"Thomas," she protested while she smiled, "if you own up to any more things, I declare I believe I'll have to even up by telling you how old I am. And that's one thing a woman don't like to mention, except, of course, to her husband." Two days later Diantha Sinclair was married at eight o'clock in the evening. The church was crowded.
Did not even the unenlightened men who formed the coroner's jury declare that Tom passed into another world by the hand of God? Can we question our Creator? I, too, desire as much as any human being can an explanation; what is more, I am far more confident of an explanation than you or any other man.
Bobby wants to be near Elsie, and no more. Boyd wants what he has always wanted the only thing he ever wanted that he didn't get. Castleton has a horrible bloodthirsty desire to kill something." "I declare now, I want to ride and camp out, also," protested Castleton. "As for myself," went on Helen, "I want Oh, if I only knew what it is that I want!
So with eager emotion, her eyes flashing, she interrupted the negro "Stop!" she cried, "you are wasting words and trouble. What you are trying to prove by subtlety I am proud and glad to declare. Hear it, all of you. The son of the Mukaukas is my betrothed!" At the same time her eye sought to meet Orion's.
What could be more improper, judged by any conceivable standard of conduct, than for a young lady to go rushing and tearing across a lawn and I declare I don't like to repeat the thing you said." "There was no impropriety of conduct," said Callaghan, "because the gentleman was her uncle." "Do you mean to tell me," said Meldon, "that Sir Gilbert Hawkesby is Miss King's uncle?" "He is.
They would laugh and joke with each other, declare the truce at an end, then load their muskets, and take aim, with the same indifference, as regarded the object, as if they had been perfect strangers; but, as I before observed, fighting is a trade.
Grantly that the time had now come in which she must throw away her shield and stand behind her sword, declare war to the knife, and neither give nor take quarter, could have justified such a speech as this. Any allusion to Mr. Slope acted on Mrs. Proudie as a red cloth is supposed to act on a bull; but when that allusion connected the name of Mr. Slope in a friendly bracket with that of Mrs.
And then as Francis was returning disappointed to his room, the porter called him back. "I have just remembered, sir," said he. "M. de Vandeleur has been in all parts of the world, and I once heard the old woman declare that he had brought many diamonds back with him. If that be the truth, there must be a fine show behind those shutters."
She certainly intended to have been very positive, but was at last obliged to come to a full stop; and, again casting an indignant squint at her father, she exclaimed 'Lord, Sir! I declare, there is no keeping with you! 'No: nor with you neither! said Enoch. 'Will you have the goodness to begin again, Mr. Trevor? continued she. I saw no remedy: she was commander in chief, and I obeyed.
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