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Updated: June 19, 2025
I gave it an exceptionally thorough overhauling, then went carefully over it once more even resorting to my magnifying-glass from time to time but all to no purpose; the room was discouragingly wanting in anything that might be regarded as a clew. In the end I fell to musing over a bar of common laundry soap on the stationary wash-stand.
Alix looked up to assure him discouragingly. "I told you, when you were pruning it," she added vivaciously, "that you were cutting too deep. No you knew it all! Now the first wind brings it down all over the place, and you get exactly what you deserve!" Her tone was less harsh than her words; indeed, it was the tone he loved from her, that of a devoted but long-suffering mother.
They had an inclination to boast on the drive home of the solitude they had enjoyed; and just then, as the road in the wood wound under great beeches, they beheld a London hat. The hat was plucked from its head. A clear-faced youth, rather flushed, dusty at the legs, addressed Diana. 'Mr. Rhodes! she said, not discouragingly.
Halfway up the aisle a softer pair of hands touched the rattle with what sounded like a faint echo; then there was sudden silence. The entire audience turned and looked disparagingly, discouragingly, at the man who had figuratively risen as a champion of the scandalous recitation. Resentment had taken hold of the good Christians.
Challoner's tone was discouragingly reserved. "May I ask what leads you to plead his cause?" "First of all because I think he is the best man." "A good reason," said the Colonel. "Still I'm inclined to think you have a better one." Mrs. Chudleigh hesitated while the colour crept into her face; then she said simply, "I love him." Challoner bowed.
She wanted to see Erik. She wanted some one to play with! There wasn't even so dignified and sound an excuse as having Kennicott's trousers pressed; when she inspected them, all three pairs looked discouragingly neat. She probably would not have ventured on it had she not spied Nat Hicks in the pool-parlor, being witty over bottle-pool. Erik was alone!
She raised her eyebrows a little discouragingly. She was dressed with extraordinary simplicity, but the difference in caste between the two supplied a problem for many curious observers. "Why should we talk of trifles," she demanded, "when we both have such a great interest in the most wonderful subject in the world?" "What is the most wonderful subject in the world?" he asked impressively.
"Behold the dreamer cometh," he said in Yiddish dialect as Edestone approached, and grasping the inventor by both hands, dragged him into the other room, and began to ask questions so fast that a Chicago reporter, had he heard, would have died of sheer mortification. After he had gotten all the information that he could pump, pull, and squeeze out of Edestone, he shook his head discouragingly.
I answered as simply and discouragingly as did the tens of thousands that came after me: "I did not hear anything about exchange." A soldier in the field had many other things of more immediate interest to think about than the exchange of prisoners. The question only became a living issue when he or some of his intimate friends fell into the enemy's hands. Thus began my first day in prison.
"You have more influence over her than I have, Miss Polly." Miss Polly, who had the composed and efficient bearing of a machine, shook her head discouragingly as she opened the gate and passed out. "I reckon she's set for good and all," she remarked emphatically, and went on her way.
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