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Saltash made an excruciating grimace. "My good fellow, spare me! That's just where the shoe pinches. I've broken faith with her already. But damnation! what else could I do? I didn't choose the part of virtuous hero. It was thrust upon me. The gods are making sport of me. I am lost in a labyrinth of virtue, and horribly most horribly sick of it.
Selden stared and laughed. "No, that's rather out of my line. I'm not really a collector, you see; I simply like to have good editions of the books I am fond of." She made a slight grimace. "And Americana are horribly dull, I suppose?" "I should fancy so except to the historian. But your real collector values a thing for its rarity.
"I imagine that wouldn't have been particularly soothing," interrupted Grace, reaching, as always, for the ever-present candy box, "especially with poor Allen's back in the condition it was." "Yes," said Allen with a grimace, "if anybody'd started to patting me at that time, I'd have returned pat for pat only mine wouldn't have been gentle. Two cents for your thoughts, Betty.
"Charmed, Madame la Duchesse, I assure you," said the Count with a grimace, and they both fell into laughing. She recovered herself first to scan the shoes and coat again. "How droll!" said she. "Ah, monsieur, you are delightful in your foibles, but I wish it had looked like any other coat than Simon Mac-Taggart's.
It's my day to settle that score, and the interest will be compounded." "I must be extremely stupid." "Not at all. You're damned intelligent, and that's why I'm going to need your help." Hanford turned upon the adventurer suddenly. "Have you ever been an actor?" Lowe made a comical grimace. "I say, old man, that's pretty rough. My people raised me for a gentleman." "Exactly.
He could hardly reason, as yet; his shadow puzzled, angered, and annoyed him until he noticed its concomitance with the sun, when he reversed cause and effect, considered it a beneficent, mysterious Something that had life, and endeavored by gesture and grimace to placate and please it. It was his beginning of religion. His dreams were often horrible.
Fresh salutes, and behold her on all fours, she too, before my landlady and before my neighbors. Yves, the big Yves, who is not about to be married, stands behind me, with a comical grimace, hardly repressing his laughter while to give myself time to collect my ideas, I offer tea in little cups, little spittoons, and embers to the company.
You just slip back to the ranch and fire Perris." In the favoring dark, Hervey threw back his head and made a grimace of joy. Exactly as he had prefigured, this talk was going. Every card was being played into his hand as though his wishes were subconsciously entering and ruling the mind of the chief. "I can't do it," he answered firmly. "You can't? Ain't you foreman?"
Then, with a little shudder of hesitation, the planes dipped, inclined slightly earthwards, and began slowly and as if reluctantly to slip down the long and empty channels of the air. At this, rousing, Lanyard became aware of his own voice yammering wildly at Vauquelin: "Good God, man! Why did you do that?" Vauquelin answered only with a pale grimace and a barely perceptible shrug.
I cert'nly would." And now anger came to its own again. "You don't know what you're talking about, Nan Bryerson! You're nothing but a a miserable little heathen; my mother said you was!" he cried out after her. But a back-flung grimace was all the answer he had.
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