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Also his quick wit saw a chance to put the screws on the lad in connection with the tutoring business. "I suppose your June allowance is able to float your traveling expenses," he remarked less guilelessly than the remark sounded. The June allowance was, it seemed, the missing link. "I thought maybe you would be willing to allow me a little extra this month on account of commencement stunts.
They were treading upon dangerous ground, he knew, and yet in the midst of his fierce anger at his weakness, he was conscious of a regret a contemptible regret, he told himself that the eyes she had raised to his own a moment ago, had been so very clear and guilelessly honest in their accordance with the declaration her lips had made.
She looked ahead at the forbidding, craggy hills toward which she had glanced when she spoke of Catrock. "Why, I don't know. How should I?" Bud saw that he had spoken unwisely. "I was thinking he'd maybe hate to miss another running match like to-day," he explained guilelessly. "Everybody and his dog seemed to be there to-day, and everybody had money up.
"I can hardly believe," went on De Chauxville, taking the proffered chair, "that my appearance was opportune on the principle, ha! ha! that a flower growing out of place is a weed. Gentlemen of the eh Home Office prefer, I know, to travel quietly!" He spread out his expressive hands as if smoothing the path of M. Vassili through this stony world. "Incognito," he added guilelessly.
You can knock off now," began the husky voice, when Jim, glancing up from his phonograph, beheld Katrina in her rose-laden hat, leaning far over the wall. If he had stopped to reflect, he might have ignored the vision, for he was but man, and the vision a guilelessly pretty one, but he did not stop to reflect. With Jim, to see a thing was to proclaim it abroad. Immediately, he yelled: "Hey!
He jumped to his feet and hailed one of the men with a great show of cordiality; the man was one of the deputy wardens of the state prison. Mr. Wagg hopefully and guilelessly expressed the conviction that the officer had followed along into the wilderness in order to join in the process of recuperation. The deputy asserted that Mr.
In Canby's eyes there was something like a glint of amusement. Wallie went on guilelessly, finding it an extreme relief, after his enforced silence, to have an ear to talk into. "The fact is," confidentially, "I may not look it but I am a good deal of a tenderfoot." "Indeed?" Canby raised a politely surprised eyebrow.
Remained, however, the fact that he managed to see a great deal of her. Feather was guilelessly doubtless concerning him. She was quite sure that he was in love with her, and very practically aware that the more men of the class of the Head of the House of Coombe who came in and out of the slice of a house, the more likely the dwellers in it were to get good invitations and continued credit.
He is thus enabled to play upon her fears, and taunt her with their mutual secret and its concealment, until she may be involved, guilelessly, in a web of apparent guilt, from which she can never extricate herself without risking the happiness of her future life.
But he had, in the first place, only himself, if anybody, to blame; in the second, Scott more than made the loan his own property by the variations executed on its motive; and in the third, Coleridge's original right was far less than he seems to have honestly thought, and than most people have guilelessly assumed since.
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