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Knowing as by instinct that nothing but humiliation would follow any obtrusion of myself upon this petted darling of fortune, I withdrew as much as possible into the shadow, receiving for my reward a short look from both the brothers; the one politely deprecating in its saturnine courtesy, the other full of a bitter demand for what I in my selfish egotism was fain to consider sympathy.
"I'm afraid here's something of a muddle, Josephine," he began with a deprecating smile. "Mallory, who was coming down here with his daughter, you know" "This is the first intimation I have had that anything has been settled upon," interrupted the lady, with appalling deliberation.
But mind you, Mr. Jones, I won't bear it from you! I'm not very big myself, but I think I could stand up before you!" But in this quarrel they were stopped by Mr. Brown. "Let dogs delight," he said or sung, "to bark and bite; " and then he raised his two fat hands feebly, as though deprecating any further wrath. As usual on such occasions Mr.
For answer they pointed to the hook. "Sahib, the hook will not fasten!" The colonel examined it; it was upside down. The contumacious Pathans had quietly reversed the work of the ship's carpenter, and the hook was now useless without being ornamental. With bland ingenuous faces they stared sadly at the hook, as if deprecating such unintelligent craftsmanship.
"The worst thing about it," Jean said, "is that it looks horribly rich big and fat and purring just as if it were saying, 'Out of the way, groundlings' You know what an insolent look big cars have." "Your small deprecating face inside will take away from the effect," Pamela assured her; "and you need a comfortable car to tour about in. When do you go exactly?" "On the twentieth," Jean told her.
Randolph, of Virginia, Ingham, of Pennsylvania, and McDuffie, of South Carolina, accordingly strove, by amendments, to narrow down the discussion so as to make it bear upon Mr. Adams or Mr. Clay, and to give countenance to every slander with which the newspapers were teeming against them, but deprecating all general investigations.
Yet her voice was still suave and deprecating. 'I thought not but you're not living in these parts, are you? 'No no, I'm not living here. He was always slow in answering, as if something intervened between him and any outside question. 'Oh, I see, she said. 'You've got relations down here. Again he looked straight into her eyes, as if looking her into silence. 'Yes, he said.
"She shall not leave this room." "My concern is for the august maiden who has found favor in your sight," replied Kano, with a deprecating gesture. "Here, Tatsu, let me fill your cup." Tatsu threw his cup face down to the floor, and put his lean, brown hand upon it. "I drink no more until my cup of troth with the maiden yonder." Umè-ko's startled eyes flew to his.
Hearing these words and seeing his kind aunt's deprecating attitude, Pepe felt ashamed of the sternness of his last words, and he made an effort to recover his serenity. The venerable Penitentiary extricated him from his embarrassing position, saying with his accustomed benevolent smile: "Senora Dona Perfecta, we must be tolerant with artists. Oh, I have known a great many of them!
"Yes, you do," contradicted Dolly, good-naturedly. "Are you thinking that it is a pleasant sort of a thing to be handsome enough to be made a picture of, Mollie?" The brown eyes met hers with an innocent sort of deprecating consciousness. "I I never thought about myself in that way before," admitted Mollie, naively. "Why," returned Dolly, quite sincerely, "you must have looked in the glass."
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