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"Very fine, indeed, sir," she returned, with something of a blush, and a shy deprecating look that seemed to beg me not to notice the peculiarly quaint antics which the wind, evidently a humourist, chose at that moment to execute with the female garments upon the line. However, I was for once cased in triple brass and inexorable.
Without deigning to answer, he solemnly folded up the humbell and put it away, then folded one by one the goods which littered the floor, and stacked them above the humbell on the same shelf. Still standing in front of the shop, we repeated our offer of sixteen shillings. He shook his head decidedly, made a deprecating gesture, and prepared to sink again on his couch. Mr.
The curtain had just again arisen, and, in the hush of the general attention, Strether's challenge was tacit, as was also the greeting, with a quickly deprecating hand and smile, of the unannounced visitor. He discreetly signed that he would wait, would stand, and these things and his face, one look from which she had caught, had suddenly worked for Miss Gostrey.
I cannot continue down the road." "I should like you to go at once," patiently. "There is a pump " The pedestrian raised a deprecating hand. "Let us admit the pump! Doubtless the pump is there, but there is a pump here also, and a pump in the hand is worth two pumps, an ice-box and a John Collins in town. You doubtless know the situation created by Mahomet and the mountain?
My Father looked a little shame-faced, and replied: 'Well, she has not as yet seen the necessity of that, but we must pray that the Lord may make her way clear before her. You see, she has been brought up, hitherto, in the so-called Church of England. Our positions were now curiously changed. It seemed as if it were I who was the jealous monitor, and my Father the deprecating penitent.
At Thionville he was, however, officially waited upon by Berlaymont and Noircarmes, on the part of the Regent. He at this point, moreover, began to receive deputations from various cities, bidding him a hollow and trembling welcome, and deprecating his displeasure for any thing in the past which might seem offensive.
"My dear lady," with a deprecating wave of his shapely hand, "don't be so dreadfully blunt. Pray tell me of what you accuse me of forcibly abducting Miss Dane last night at ten o'clock? With my hand on my heart, madame, on the word of a man and brother on the honor of an artist I solemnly asseverate I didn't do it!" Miriam groaned. "Then what has become of that unfortunate child?
"Why, there's a glove on it!" he said in a deprecating way. "I have been walking," she observed. "But, miss!" "Well it is hardly fair." She pulled off the glove, and gave him her bare hand. They stood together minute after minute, without further speech, each looking at the blackening scene, and each thinking his and her own thoughts.
It 'd be odd after all, if commercially, as he 'd call it, his despised brother-in-law and I say it in all kindness should turn out worth, not exactly millions, but worth a trifle." The farmer nodded with an air of deprecating satisfaction. Rhoda did not gain his ear until, as by an instinct, she perceived what interest the story of her uncle and the money-bags would have for him.
"You behold" Bristow softened his statement with a deprecating laugh "Mr. Lawrence Bristow, a finished, honest-to-heaven detective, a criminologist." "What do you mean?" "I'm going to make it my profession. I'm starting out as a professional detective." Overton burst into bubbling laughter. "That's rich!" he exclaimed. "You'd never in the world make good at it.
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