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He laughed in a joyless, helpless way, and looked deprecatingly at Westover. "I guess I've been making a fool of myself that's all." "It's better to make a fool of one's self than to make a fool of some one else," said Westover, oracularly. "Yes," said Jeff, apparently finding nothing more definite in the oracle than people commonly find in oracles.
Belcher," said the beautiful lady deprecatingly, "but I have been here for a week, and it seems so much like my own home, that I ordered the tea without thinking that I am the guest and you are the mistress." "Certainly, and I am really very much obliged to you;" and then feeling that she had been a little untrue to herself, Mrs.
Miriam choked back a sob. The neat little man shrugged his shoulders deprecatingly. "There's one thing I should like to ask," he pursued, "among the many that I don't know anything about, and that I don't care to inquire into. How did you come by the name of this lady's father, my old friend Herbert Strange?" Ford and Miriam exchanged swift glances. She shook her head, and he took his cue.
"Forage, sire, forage our horses are dying like flies!" "You see," said the king to his officers, "these poor fellows ask nothing for themselves. Why is it that they have no forage for their horses?" "Sire," replied the officers, deprecatingly, "as long as there remained a hay-stack or a storehouse in this part of Bohemia, your majesty's army was fed by the enemy.
"Sorry," he said uncomfortably. "I have explicit orders from Inspector Egerton not to allow any communication between these people here and the other branches of the tribe." "Why not?" asked Colina. Plaskett shrugged deprecatingly. "Not for me to say. I can guess, perhaps. It's not possible to lock them all up, but these people are under arrest just the same.
"Done with you!" cried Ralph. "Hush h h!" his mother exclaimed, deprecatingly. "Betting, and before the Bishop, too!" "What the Bishop don't know will do him no harm, Ma," said the youth in a stage whisper. "Sit down, Ideala, and begin. It's ten minutes to ten now."
"I own it has interested me to see what he has developed into; but surely that isn't unfair?" She looked at Mr. Kilroy deprecatingly. "It is vivisection," said Angelica. "But under such agreeable anæsthetics that I should think he enjoys it," said Mr. Kilroy. "I should have no objection myself." "Daddy, be careful!" Angelica cried.
"Yes, she must go to Mrs. Wilkinson's, and, for that matter, I must go working too. Mrs. Williams has been after me to make her girl's winter things ready; only I could not leave Franky, he clung so to me." "Then you won't be bridesmaid! is that your last word?" "It is; you must not be angry with me, Anne Dixon," said Libbie, deprecatingly. But Anne was gone without a reply.
"You will pardon my coming to see you at this hour of the night," she began deprecatingly, "but as my dear father used to say, 'Hopi soit qui mal y pense." "Your dear father being in the garter business?" suggested T. X. humorously. "Won't you sit down, Mrs. "Mrs. Cassley," beamed the lady as she seated herself. "He was in the paper hanging business.
"You knows well, Miss Edie, dat you'se only to speak and it's done," said Hannibal, deprecatingly. She gave him such a gentle, grateful look that the old man was almost ready to get down on his knees before her. Putting her hand on his shoulder, she said: "What a good, faithful, old friend you are! You don't know how much I love you, Hannibal;" and she returned to her mother.
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