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That is precisely what you were thinking. Only you funked putting it into plain words." He got up and came to her side and stood looking down at her. "Isn't it a fact?" he insisted. "Isn't it?" Magda looked up, tried to answer in the negative and failed. He had spoken the simple truth and she knew it.
He asked if she were not at home: couldn't he say good-bye? Not that he liked good-byes he always funked them. When he left England the other day he hadn't said good-bye to a two-legged creature. He had had half a mind to leave Rome without troubling Mrs. Osmond for a final interview. What could be more dreary than final interviews?
Dead against my conviction, mind you, but what else could I do? God help me, I played the renegade to what I sincerely believed. I couldn't see her done to death by a world of satyrs." "Of course you couldn't, my dear man," cried Chevenix. "Girls of her sort must be married, you know." "I don't know anything of the kind," replied Senhouse, fiercely; "but I loved her. You may put it that I funked.
He had long been persuaded that had the dowager countess not thus given the note to his character his record would never have been written on that roll of heroes. "I should have funked it," was his way of putting it, by which he meant that he would have funked it through sheer ignorance of himself and of his aptitude for the high and noble.
Miladi " She funked the difficult "Lady Auriol." "Au revoir, Madame," said Auriol shaking hands. "Trop honoree," said Elodie, somewhat defiantly. "Au revoir, Miladi." She made an awkward little bow. "Et toi," she extended a careless left hand to Bakkus. "I will see you to the lift," said I.
"Now then," she said, "how is it that all the others have funked it?" "There has been so much muttering and whispering and suspecting going on during the whole livelong day that they were positively afraid," said Susy. "Indeed, if it hadn't been for you, Kathleen, I doubt if any of us would have come." "Well, girls, we can't help it," said Kathleen.
"Just as you managed me a couple of years ago, eh? Yes, I should say you will be fully competent in that respect. You have a way with you, eh, Max? What was it this Indian doctor said?" "He believed a cure possible, but only under the most favourable conditions. The boy was in no state then to undergo an operation, and he funked the job." Max's tone was contemptuous. "Ah, well!
'I suppose the executors funked something about my father's will; at all events, they flung the whole thing in. Well, no great harm has come of it; not so much cost or worry as you would expect. Only the girls have had bad times of it about their sweethearts. I mean the Baby 'The Baby! How old is she? 'Eighteen; and uncommonly good-looking, I think. Have some sherry.
He slumped in his chair. His hands were limp along the chair arms. He was not watching the billiard players. He was staring straight across the room with the sightless look of one whose mind is far away. "Another deep thinker," Stubby drawled. "Rather rough going for Norman these days." "How?" MacRae asked. "Funked it over across," Stubby replied. "So they say.
"Well," said Dudley, stopping his sobs for a minute; "I don't see it was his fault; it was the stupid pony; he funked it, and then fell and broke his knees; mine went over all right. Oh, why didn't it happen to me! If I had been spilled, I wouldn't have minded, and one leg wouldn't have been half so bad to me as to Roy!" "I reckon you'd have got your leg all right again without having to lose it.
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