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He was a young man who considered himself a "gentleman," and among his own particular set passed for being a wit. "Really!" he drawled "Quite a new experience for you! A little country mouse, is it?" Innocent drew back, offended. "I don't know what you mean," she said, coldly and moved away. The young clerk fingered his embryo moustache dubiously conscious of a blunder in manners.
That being so, you'll surely be fixed one way or the other. Get me, Bill?" Bill nodded dubiously. "I get that, but I don't understand " he began. But Charlie gave him no time to finish. "Don't worry to," he said quickly. Then he gripped the other's muscular arm affectionately. "See you later," he added, smiling whimsically up into the troubled blue eyes as he moved off the veranda.
"When I go I'll choose a ship with a band and broad decks, not any such cramped old canal boat as the Portland." "Oh! I thought perhaps your husband " began the lady dubiously, but with a significant glance at the silent faces about her. "Who? Frank Garrison? Heavens!
We want to have everything explained. At present we have so little of what I regard as really definite evidence." "May I ask what that little is?" "Sir Alan Hume-Frazer was murdered with a knife produced by a man like David Hume, whom 'Rabbit Jack' saw standing beneath the yews. Not much, eh?" Winter shook his head dubiously.
What are you allowed to do on Sunday anyway?" "Church," succinctly. "And Sunday-school and church and the 'Pilgrim's Progress." "Well, that's something. Jolly good book, the 'Pilgrim's Progress'!" "Yes," dubiously. "If it didn't use such a nawful lot of big words. And if he'd only get on a little faster. He was terrible slow." "So he was. Well, let us be merry while we can.
Tom got in, pushed off from the shore, and with deft strokes brought the slender craft down to where his friends were waiting. Bert eyed the frail boat dubiously. "A canoe is a dandy thing for cruising in, especially if you want to get somewhere in a hurry, but it was never meant for a fishing party," he commented.
Katy handed Linda a bundle of newspaper, inside which, wrapped in a man's handkerchief, she found several plants, carefully lifted, the roots properly balled, the heads erect, crisp, although in full flower. "Oh, Katy!" cried Linda. "Look, it's Gallito, 'little rooster'!" "Now ain't them jist yellow violets?" asked Katy dubiously. "No," said Linda, "they are not. They are quite a bit rarer.
The varied sounds of poultry were heard from the well-stocked farm-yard; the bees hummed from their hives in the garden; the cattle lowed in the rich meadow; while the crammed barns and ample stacks bore proof of an abundant harvest. The stranger opened the gate and advanced dubiously toward the house.
You can say you hearn crying for help, and didn't know but what Holden had turned on him, and so come to assist." Primus shook his head dubiously. He hardly knew what to reply, yet was evidently disinclined to the adventure. For that reason, perhaps, he allowed Basset to remain in durance longer than his own good-nature prompted, in the hope that relief might arrive from some other quarter.
But seeing her little feet shining through the dark water, like outcroppings of delicately veined quartz, he stopped embarrassed. Miss Nellie, however, leaped to one foot, and, shaking the other over the pool, put her hand on his shoulder to steady herself. "You haven't got a towel or," she said dubiously, looking at her small handkerchief, "anything to dry them on?"
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