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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Well, anyhow I've got to explain a lot of things that'll take some time, and it isn't so much explain as persuade for I expect," he said, turning to Mr. Twist, "this strikes you as a bit sudden, sir?" "It would strike anybody," said Mr. Twist trying to be stern but finding it difficult, for Elliott was so disarmingly engaging and so disarmingly in love.
Grim Hagen may not have heard him for he continued in that same desperate, pleading voice. "So here is my proposition, Ato. Give me your father's secret. In return, I give you the treasures, the Old Ship, the prisoners, and even Maya. Is not that complete surrender?" He smiled disarmingly. Ato stood tall and proud as he answered. His eyes were blazing now, as he saw through Grim Hagen's plan.
Was there a row?" "Were you listening?" said Saltash. She coloured, and smiled disarmingly. "Part of the time no, all the time. But I didn't hear anything at least not much. Nothing that mattered. Are you angry?" He frowned upon her, but his eyes reassured. "I told you to smoke a cigarette." "I'm sorry," said Toby meekly. "Shall I smoke one now?" He pinched her ear. "No. We'll go out.
But the elderly gentleman came running toward him with a suppressed cry, and seizing the young man's hand disarmingly in both his own, threw himself almost hysterically upon his apologia. "Can you forgive me, my boy? Ah, I'll confess that I've dreaded this meeting, while longing for it, too! You look badly ah, very badly! yet not bitter, not resentful thank God, not unhappy!
He was so enamored of metaphorical indirection that he tried to see everything in the terms of something else. But to-day she had her own thoughts. She sat staring into the fire, her cheeks burned by the leaping heat, and Dick, looking up at her, stopped on an uncompleted line. "You haven't," he said, "heard a word." "Not much of it," said Nan. She looked at him disarmingly.
The next girl created a diversion being palpably an adventuress out of a job and impressing none of the quartette as being interesting enough to deserve one, but the two girls who followed her were bright and sprightly creatures, disarmingly graceful and ingenuous, of whom the entire quartette approved.
Richards for the second time that morning, but Claire was conscious that there was more incredulity than surprise registered in the lady's tone. "As a matter of fact," Claire continued, stung to incautious exasperation, "I spent the night in Sausalito." Mrs. Richards met this information with a disarmingly bland smile.
He would say the man was a college chum, that he had borrowed the money from him, and that this was the first chance he had had to pay it back. The Kid suggested it was strange that so many of his college chums should at the same moment turn up, dead broke, in Salonika, and that half of them should be women. John smiled disarmingly. "It was a large college," he explained, "and coeducational."
"Far as I could see, it was," Ford replied, with an inner sense of evasion. "I guess we'll just let her go as she looks, Jim. Did you say anything to the boys?" Jim reddened under his tan, but he laughed disarmingly. "I cannot tell a lie," he confessed honestly, "and it was too good to keep to myself.
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