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I had been too angry and excited after that scene of ours to feel unhappy, or to worry much about what might come next, but that drive, short as it was, with Potter freezingly silent, and Mrs. Ess Kay alarmingly polite, made me feel that the end had come.
"You are going up to the falls. I insist on that. Let's take that as settled. The canoe is yours." He caught an encouraging look from his wife. "If you want to torture me you will say you will not go. If you want to do me the greatest of favours, you will let my friend go in the canoe with you to the landing." "What! go alone with a stranger?" cried Miss Sommerton, freezingly.
"I would rather not say anything about it," said the housekeeper, freezingly. "I insist upon your speaking," said the old lady, getting very red in the face. "Well, I don't know much about it," said the housekeeper, looking round appealingly. "I heard you speaking to somebody at the door in a low voice." "It wasn't a low voice," interrupted Mrs. Banks, sharply.
It's an age of Specialties. Suppose you take up signaling, or sharp-shooting if you prefer it, and I can learn wireless telegraphy. And maybe Betty will take the flying course, because we ought to have an Aviator and she is afraid of nothing, besides having an uncle who is thinking of buying an Aeroplane." "What else would you sugest?" I said freezingly.
She ventured once to glance up at his face, and it seemed to her that his eyes were moist—though perhaps it was that her own were a little dim. “Let us skate on,” he said abruptly, with a fine air of resignation. “By the way,” he suddenly added, “I was extremely High Church, in fact almost freezingly high.”
"Take me in here and get me a sherbet," she commanded, without replying to his protests. "That's good," she said, when she had tasted it. "Now sit down and listen to me. You are making a perfect spectacle of yourself. Don't you know it?" Keith stiffened to an extreme formality. "I beg your pardon!" said he freezingly. "That may be your personal individual right" went on Mrs.
"Who?" asked Lynde, with a start. "Devilish snug little foot! Was it a danseuse?" "No," returned Lynde freezingly. "An actress?" "No," said Lynde, taking the slipper from Preston's hand and gently setting it back on the writing-table. "It was not an actress; and yet she played a role in a blacker tragedy than any you ever saw on the stage." "Lynde, I beg your pardon.
"Thank you," said Margaret, quite freezingly now. "I really do not care to drive this morning. I would like to see the school-house, and then I must return to the house at once. I have a great many things to do this morning." Her manner at last penetrated even the thick skin of the self-centered man, and he realized that he had gone a step too far in his attentions.
"Well, Mister Carmichael, if that interests you I'm quite ill," replied Bo, freezingly. "Ill! Aw no, now?" "It's a fact. If I don't die right off I'll have to be taken back to Missouri," said Bo, casually. "Are you goin' to ask me in?" queried Carmichael, bluntly. "It's cold an' I've got somethin' to say to " "To ME? Well, you're not backward, I declare," retorted Bo.
"Well, then, how can she ever have any independence if she is treated as a child up to one day of her life, and the next day is expected to promise she will obey a man as long as he lives?" The angry spots in Mrs. Baron's cheeks had been burning deeper and deeper, and now she spoke promptly and freezingly, "Mr.
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