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Joan put out her soft, strong hand and laid it upon the hard, wrinkled fist of the old servant. There was a suspicious sparkle in her dark eyes. "I will not disappoint that expectation, good Andrew," she said. "Go if you will, whilst we think what may best be done for Bridget. Later on I will come myself to look at William.
Rushton had perceived Grant's disposition to snub and annoy the child, and with her usual determination to uphold and justify her own conduct and disappoint those who disapproved of her views, she had put down the maid's impertinence with a high hand, and had grown more and more careful of late to protect Hetty's dignity before the servants.
She left him and went to stand on the outskirts of the crowd that had collected in front of the cage in which the wolves are kept. Evidently she hoped that he would go on, but he meant to disappoint her, and when she went down the steps he was close beside her. "Why are you so unkind to me?" he said, and as they crossed the road he held her arm.
Now, Mr. Scott was a young man and totally unused to "taking" babies, but the boy had lifted the little one from the bed and was holding him out to his teacher with such a happy face that the young man felt that it would never do to disappoint him.
"If he thinks I could be brilliant in society, or do him any credit in that way, he would be sure to be disappointed, and what a terrible thing it must be to disappoint a husband! It is not so much his deficiencies as my own, that weigh upon me.
That is all I have to say to you or to the Coroner of Greene County, on a matter in which I have no concern. I am sorry to disappoint both of you, but it is so." He rose, and the Coroner did not seek to detain him. He merely observed, as the director turned to go: "Have you heard the latest news about Mrs. Taylor?" "No." "She is improving rapidly.
"Would ye like another bath in the mornin', sor, before breakfast?" he inquired, as he was leaving. I could not bear to disappoint the little fellow any more. "Yes," I replied.
So in silence she prayed, night and day, that God would disappoint her fears for Archie, and more than realise his sister's hope for him. Mrs Stirling's visits to the cottage did not become less frequent as the summer advanced, and her interest in Lilias seemed to increase with every visit.
"I think it would be a pity to disappoint your mother," with a light hand on her shoulder. "You are so young four years is very, little. Of course you could do the work in half the time, but you admit that you are not an ardent student. If nobody came here but the girls that really needed to, we shouldn't have the reputation that we have.
Cossey, Will you come over and see me this afternoon about three o'clock? I shall /expect/ you, so I am sure you will not disappoint me. For a long while he hesitated what to do. Belle Quest was at the present juncture the very last person whom he wished to see. His nerves were shaken and he feared a scene, but on the other hand he did not know what danger might threaten him if he refused to go.
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