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By taking it, would you not expose yourself to be most pertinently and embarrassingly asked, for what purpose these servants fled to a strange and most odious people? and would not your candid reply necessarily be, that it was to escape from the galling chains of slavery, to a far-famed milder type of servitude? from Gentile oppression, to a land in which human rights were protected by Divine laws?
This further act of homage, so publicly performed, disconcerted me to such an extent that I hastened to dismiss the embarrassingly grateful pair by assuring them that they were making altogether too much of what I had done, which was no more than any other man, confident of his swimming powers, would have unhesitatingly undertaken, had I not happened to have seized the initiative; that I was of course very glad it had fallen to me to be the means of saving their lives; but that I most earnestly begged them to say no more about it.
An embarrassingly long silence followed these words, during which time the two friends looked at each other in a mocking way. Finally the Marionette, in a voice sweet as honey and soft as a flute, said to his companion: "Tell me, Lamp-Wick, dear friend, have you ever suffered from an earache?" "Never! And you?" "Never! Still, since this morning my ear has been torturing me." "So has mine."
A minority, represented by Lord Halifax, who carried a wise head on young shoulders, advised the former plan; but the majority preferred to flatter Charles's manifest predilection, and said not to seem embarrassingly explicit that in their opinion the best way to govern a colony on the other side of an ocean three thousand miles broad, was to govern it as the king thought best!
She sincerely hoped, however, that he would confine his thoughts and attentions to the ostensible object of the drive, for his manner at times was embarrassingly ardent. Burt was sufficiently politic to fulfil her hope, for he had many other drives in view, and had discovered that attentions not fraternal were unwelcome to Amy.
"If there ever was a house meant for a large family, that one is. Can't you almost hear it crying out for heaps and heaps of romping children? I should think " I was interrupted by a loud cough from Mr. Dowden, so abrupt and artificial that his intention to check the flow of my innocent prattle was embarrassingly obvious even to me!
He was so deeply moved that his eyes were embarrassingly moist. "Why, Carrie, every time you open your mouth you only prove to me further what a grand little woman you are!" "You'll like Alma, when you get to know her, Louis." "Why, I do now! Always have said she's a sweet little thing." "She is quiet and hard to get acquainted with at first, but that is reserve.
Eileen grumbled discontentedly over everything being cold and suggested a carelessness in Stella about other people's convenience. The tea-cakes had been kept warm over a spirit-lamp, but she was in a captious mood. Lady O'Gara wondered at the girl, who had sometimes been embarrassingly effusive in the display of her affection.
"I am at Your Majesty's service," said I, bowing. "Then, if the ladies will excuse you for a short while?" "Don't make it too short, sire," said Lady Helen and then the door closed and saved me a reply; which, doubtless, was as well, for I have not yet thought of a good one. "Bright girl, that," said the King. "Yes," said I, "embarrassingly bright at times." "Was she in Washington with Radnor?"
Recognition of Leonard and Call's familiar shop-front fired him with a spirit of adventure and enterprise. He stopped short, thoughtfully rubbing his small moustache the wrong way, his vision glued to the embarrassingly candid window displays. "It'd be an awful thing for me to do....
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