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"What treason brought him here, then?" she asked haughtily, pointing indignantly at Stovik. The latter smiled deprecatingly, as Sobieska answered, "Part of a Russian plot, Highness, of which, so far as we can ascertain, this gentleman has been the innocent victim. It was by such a plan they sought to lure all the patriots within the boundaries of our land, then to draw their net about us.

When his ball had trickled safely into the hole, and the spectators were moving towards the next tee, Braid and I were amused, but not flattered, by the words of a man who was speaking to a friend in such a loud voice that we could all hear. "Oh," he exclaimed deprecatingly, "those fellows only do that sort of thing for the sake of the applause!"

'I er beg your pardon, she says quickly in her childish way. 'What for? asks he, pretending not to understand her. 'For calling you by your Christian name 'Well, and what harm was there? 'You see, she says deprecatingly, 'Mabel is always talking about you, and so I get into the habit of talking of you as Paul.

Denner shook his head deprecatingly at this, but he seemed pleased. "Oh, not at all, it was nothing, it was of no consequence." One of the shutters blew softly to, and darkened the room; Gifford rose, and, leaning from the window, fastened it back against the ivy which had twisted about the hinge from the stained bricks of the wall. "I cannot claim any bravery," the sick man went on. "No.

I had hardly got it to my eye when someone touched me on the shoulder and said deprecatingly: "I'll have to get you to give that to me, Sir. If there's anything you'd like to know about taking the sun, I'd as soon tell you as not but I don't like to trust anybody with that instrument. If you want any figuring done Aye, aye, sir!" He was gone to answer a call from the other side.

"My dear Colonel Menendez," said Harley, "I feel sure that you are interrupting your siesta in order to discuss the unpleasant business which finds us in such pleasant surroundings. Allow me once again to suggest that we postpone this matter until, shall we say, after dinner?" "No, no! No, no," protested the Colonel, waving his hand deprecatingly.

That branch of the family lost a good deal of property." Mrs. Field rose abruptly. "I guess I'd better be goin'," said she. "It must be your tea-time. I'll come in again to-morrow." The lawyer put up his hand deprecatingly. "Mrs. Maxwell, you will, of course, stay and take tea with us, and remain with us to-night."

"I believe you're Viscount Canterbury's brother, on the wrong side of the blanket." "Keep 'e tempeh; keep 'e tempeh," said he deprecatingly, as the poison filtered through his system. "Zpeak 'e moind feear atwixt man an' man. Bea n't Oi a-diewin' wot Oi be a-peead f'r diewin'? Coomh!" "Well, you are a rum character," I remarked, judiciously assisting the action of the virus.

He was not in a good humour by any means. "Wilt thou deprive thy betters of the sunlight thou enjoyest thyself?" "The sahib's face is like the sun and the moon," replied the man deprecatingly. "But if the great lord will listen I will tell him what shall rejoice his heart." "Speak, unbeliever," said Isaacs.

I am not merely a casual outsider who has looked about him, sniffed deprecatingly and taken the train for Dover which leads to Calais which leads to Paris which leads to youthful romance. I have wallowed in London as the ascetic wallows in his punitive rites, with a strange, keen joy. I have been a voluntary St. Simeon on its cold grey street corners.

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