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"I don't know that I can come Saturday," she objected, only anxious to be disobliging. "Oh, you MUST," said Barbara brightly. "DO try! You take the one- forty-five from the Sausalito ferry, and somebody'll meet you! And if we should be kept later than we expect, somebody'll bring you home!" "I have a friend who would come for me," said Julia stiffly, thinking of Mark.
It is a terrible thing when you make such a prolonged stay on this earth that you have to be helped off it. It is very curious too, how exceedingly disobliging old people are. I know a family who have never worn anything brighter than grey for years. "In case we have to go into mourning soon our poor old aunt, you know.
But he did advise me to take as few occasions as I can of disobliging Commanders, though this is one that every body is glad to hear that he do receive a check.
Her meals were no longer served to her; she had to get what she could from the kitchen. The servants, imitating their mistress's attitude were deliberately disobliging and rude to the little foreigner. Sadako and her mother would sneer at her awkwardness and at her ignorance of Japanese customs. Her obi was tied anyhow; for she had no maid.
Madam de Cleves could not dispense with going to these assemblies, however desirous she was to be absent, for fear of disobliging her husband, who absolutely commanded her to be there; and what yet more induced her to it, was the absence of the Duke de Nemours; he was gone to meet the Duke of Savoy, and after the arrival of that Prince, he was obliged to be almost always with him, to assist him in everything relating to the ceremonies of the nuptials; for this reason Madam de Cleves did not meet him so often as she used to do, which gave her some sort of ease.
"On receiving the letter I hastened to answer it, reserving to myself more fully to examine the matter, protesting against all disobliging interpretation, and after having given several days to this examination with an inquietude which may easily be conceived, and still without being able to discover in what I could have erred, what follows was my final answer on the subject.
'I really hardly like to tell you, answered the lady-in-waiting. 'Oh, then you can whisper it to me. 'He is disobliging! said the Princess, and went away. But she had only gone a few steps when the bells rang out so prettily 'Where is Augustus dear? Alas! he's not here, here, here. 'Listen! said the Princess. 'Ask him whether he will take ten kisses from my ladies-in-waiting.
Madame Carolina expressed her willingness; but the Baroness, like all forward girls unused to the world, suddenly grew at the same time both timid and disobliging. She looked sullen and discontented, and coolly said that she did not feel in the humour to ride for at least these two hours.
Whereupon Lieutenant Van Haubitz passed half an hour in heaping maledictions on the head of his disobliging commander, and then sat down and wrote an application for an exchange to the authorities in Holland.
"I take it as very disobliging, Tony; I sha'n't care to patronize your place any longer," said Randolph, trying a new tack. Tony Denton shrugged his shoulders. "I only care for patrons who are willing to pay their bills," he answered significantly. "It doesn't pay me to keep my place open free." "Of course not; but I hope you are not afraid of me?" "Certainly not.
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