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And now she looked at him beseechingly, as if to beg him only not to scorn her gift. Her emotion transferred itself to him. He must be the one to act; but disappointingly, he knew, with the mind coming in to school disastrous feeling and warn it not again to scale such heights or drop into such depths. "Lydia," said he, "you must leave this thing here with me."
He had made that disappointingly plain to her in his letter. But as she awaited his coming in a white crêpe gown, which made her seem so fair and young, she hoped the words might be spoken which would bring to her the desired end.
This view, however, was not confirmed by the event, for our troubled gentleman vanished utterly disappointingly crude behaviour on the part of a young diplomatist who had distinguished himself before any one could put a hand on him. And he failed to make up for his crudity by coming to see any one the next day, or even the next.
Yet he disappointingly failed to stir her pulses. She smiled with friendly derision. "Poor Clary! You don't look like a Vesuvius ready to erupt. You have such remarkable self-control." His smile met hers. "I can't go up and down the street ringing a bell like a town crier and shouting it out to everybody I meet." Round the corner of the house a voice was lifted in tuneless song.
Ford stepped suddenly off the porch and bored his way through the blizzard toward the depot. The station agent would be able to answer the last question, at any rate. The agent, however, proved disappointingly ignorant of the matter.
Yet their father had been an Earl, the second of his name, and was himself the son of a meteoric personage of mid-Victorian days parliamentary lawyer, peer, and Governor of an Indian Presidency, who had earned his final step in the peerage by the skilful management of a little war, and had then incontinently died, leaving his family his reputation, which was considerable, and his savings, which were disappointingly small.
Hassan turned a sharp corner and Giza lay before them, up a gradual, rising slope. In the immediate foreground was the Sphinx. Rick's first impression was that it was disappointingly small, as the great pyramids behind it were truly enormous. He could see all three Giza pyramids now.
"I think I can stand on my feet now." In two strides he was clear of the mud, and had set her on firm earth. But she was still clinging to his arm when Garth came up, brimming with concern. "I'm quite disappointingly all right," she assured him hastily, stung by a keen sense that her catastrophe had fallen headlong from impending tragedy to bathos.
If she found Lady Anstruthers plump and roseate, pleased with herself and her position, she was quite equal to making her visit appear a casual and conventional affair. "I ought to wish it to be so," she thought, "and, yet, how disappointingly I should feel she had changed. Still, even ethical reasons would not excuse one for wishing her to be miserable."
As the arrangement would be secret, and the likelihood of discovery small, the temptation to break the law was correspondingly great. The good results of the passage of the law were disappointingly slight. To be sure, the Commission was gaining experience, administrative precedents were being established and injustice was somewhat less common than before.
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