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But when they were alone again in their little cottage, and Zephas' honest eyes with no trace of evil knowledge or suspicion in their homely, neutral lightness were looking into hers with his usual simple trustfulness, Mrs. Bunker trembled, whimpered, and I grieve to say basely funked her boasted confession. But here the Deity which protects feminine weakness intervened with the usual miracle.
It would have been worse to face several dozens of these creatures in their lair; therefore, I funked collecting my ward at Versailles. I was to know her by a rose pinned on her frock in case she'd altered past recognition.
Well, his want of valour was but a deeper appeal to her tenderness. To thrill with response to it she had only to remember all the ladies she herself had, as they called it, funked. It continued to rain so hard that our young lady's private dream of explaining the Continent to their visitor had to contain a provision for some adequate treatment of the weather.
"Yes, my boy," Charlie resumed, as he meditatively blew out the match and threw it on the fire, "you may well say `delicate. The truth is that if I hadn't seen at once that Stirling was a very decent sort of chap, and very friendly here, I might have funked it. Yes, I might. He came in just after we'd arrived. So I saw him alone here. I made a clean breast of it, and put myself in his hands.
She had funked the sharp corners of life, that other, in a way in which this girl with the clear, brown-gold eyes that met the World so squarely would never funk them. Before he could formulate any answer there came the sound of the house-door opening and closing. He rose hastily from his chair. "Ah! That must be your brother!" he exclaimed, a note of what sounded almost like relief in his voice.
"But the next time I'll carry him on my back all the way." She went to bed with her knowledge. He funked and lied. The two things she couldn't stand. His funk and his lying were a real part of him. And it was as if she had always known it, as if all the movements of her mind had been an effort to escape her knowledge. She opened her eyes. Something hurt them.
You vas the least of us, big as you be now; and you vent round and opened the door for us; and ven you had opened the door, you saw a voman had joined us, and you were a funked then, and stayed vithout the crib, to keep vatch vhile ve vent in." "Well, well," cried Ned, "what the devil has all this rigmarole got to do with Paul?" "Now don't be glimflashy, but let me go on smack right about.
For some cowardly reason I funked poverty, and the thought of escaping it made me agree to marry Sabina, knowing all the time it must prove a failure. That was my second big mistake, and the third was asking her to come and live with me without marrying her. I suggested that, because I wanted her and felt very keen about the child. I ought not to have thought of such a thing.
"You've told her?" cried Mina. "Oh, yes, Mr Neeld has told me everything." "Well, I've mentioned the bare fact " Neeld began. "Yes, yes, that's the only thing that matters. You've told her, Harry?" The last two days made him "Harry" and her "Mina." "No, I had a chance and I funked it," said Harry, slow in speech and slow in smile. "She asked me into her room. Well, I wouldn't go."
It was the doctor drew my attention to it first; but I told him he'd better sit where he was, for it was Sabina's business to go up to any one that would ring a bell. Well, the ringing went on terrible strong, for maybe ten minutes, and " "Sabina funked it, I suppose," said Meldon.
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