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"How is this?" asked Philip, angrily. "Why are you not in bed?" "I did not know it was so late, Philip," she answered, in a deprecating tone. "I was half asleep upon the rocking-chair, listening to the storm. It's a bad night, Philip. How wet you are!"
"I could not help it, dear," sighed Miss Brabazon at last, sinking into a chair, and casting her deprecating, fainting eyes upon the hostess. "It is witchcraft," said fat Mrs. Bruce, wiping her forehead. "Witchcraft!" echoed Mrs. Poyntz; "it does indeed look like it. An amazing and portentous exhibition of animal spirits, and not to be endured by the Proprieties.
This was far from suiting the general's plans; his men had been under arms since daylight, and to prolong the suspense at this critical moment would he felt be fatal. He returned an answer, therefore, to Atahuallpa, deprecating his change of purpose, and saying that everything was provided for his entertainment and he expected him that night to sup with him.
"I'll go up alone," Domini said. "I shall stay some time and I would rather not keep you." She put some money into the Arab's hand. He looked pleased, yet doubtful too for a moment. Then he seemed to banish his hesitation and, with a deprecating smile, said something which she could not understand. She nodded intelligently to get rid of him.
And the singer thus emboldened, and accompanied by one small piping flute, a ridiculous starveling of sound after all the blare that had preceded it, sang with a modest and deprecating air a line which fell very flat indeed a mere nothing tagged from a nursery rhyme obviously an importation. Stalls, pit, and gallery rocked and shouted with laughter.
Do honorable women murder their husbands? After that you are a rag, and not an examining magistrate! I never ventured to call you names before, but now you compel me to. Rag! Dressing-gown! Dear Nicholas Yermolaïyevitch, do come, I beg of you !" The magistrate made a deprecating motion with his hand. "I beg of you! I ask, not for myself, but in the interests of justice. I beg you! I implore you!
Beauchamp, talking to Cougham apart, would argue that the daring and the far-sighted course was often the most practical. Cougham extended a deprecating hand: 'Yes, I have gone over all that. Occasionally he was maddening. The melancholy position of the senior and junior Liberals was known abroad and matter of derision.
But in vain; her sister went on, moving every thing and every body in the room, displacing all the cushions of all the chairs in her progress, and, at last, approached Lady Anne's sofa, with intent to invade her repose. "Ah! Frances!" cried Lady Anne, in a deprecating tone, with a gesture of supplication and anguish in her eyes, "do let me rest!" "Never, till I have the letter."
Well, I am glad to hear you say you are well; very glad I am, to be sure. My daughters, gentlemen my gals these are; and that's my sister, Miss Rachael Wardle. She's a Miss, she is; and yet she ain't a Miss eh, Sir, eh? And the stout gentleman playfully inserted his elbow between the ribs of Mr. Pickwick, and laughed very heartily. 'Lor, brother! said Miss Wardle, with a deprecating smile.
He struck a match and, holding it up, standing straight, the master, all unconscious for once in his deprecating life of the Wrennishness of Mr. Wrenn, he discovered that the thatch above the horse-manger was fairly waterproof. "Come on! Up on the edge of the manger, Istra," he ordered. "This is a perfectly good place for a murder," she grinned, as they sat swinging their legs.
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