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"It is a tremendous undertaking to make a wedding." "How do the preparations go on?" asked Carroll, while Ina bent over her plate with a half-annoyed, half-pleased expression. "Very well," replied Mrs. Carroll. "Ina's things are lovely, and the dressmaker is so pleased that we gave her the trousseau. It will be a lovely wedding." "Where have you been all the week?"
"Oh, you are an utterly outrageous and impossible man!" exclaimed Myra, half-annoyed, half-amused, and at heart a little fascinated withal. "Even if I did flirt with you at Auchinleven to amuse myself, you had no right to take my teasing seriously you, who are such an experienced flirt and philanderer, and who do not expect women to take your love-making seriously and laugh at them if they do."
How could you have taken it? But what did I gain? Not even a half-annoyed shake of the head, or the semblance of a smile. I might as well have spoken to the Sphinx. "When reminded that the dinner-bell had rung, he rose and went to the table, still with his book in his hand. He asked the blessing with a tremor in his voice, which showed the intense excitement under which he was laboring.
'I and Minnie and Miss Hood. 'Oh, you are Patty, then, are you? This was an old form of joke. The child shook her dark curls with a half-annoyed gesture, but still swung on her cousin as he moved into the house. Wilfrid passed his arm about her playfully. 'Can't you make up your mind, Wilf? she asked. 'Oh yes, my mind is quite made up, he replied, with a laugh. 'And won't you tell me?
For she has all, and we have nothing, as I have learned and you will learn before you die." He looked at the Wanderer as he spoke. His hollow eyes seemed calm enough, and in his dejected attitude and subdued tone there was nothing that gave warning of a coming storm. The Wanderer listened, half-interested and yet half-annoyed by his persistence. Unorna herself was silent still.
"Eurie Mitchell, you are just being nonsensical!" Ruth said, speaking in a half-annoyed tone. "You are not absurd enough to suppose that either of those verses are arguments in favor of dancing, or against dancing, or indeed have anything to do with the subject? What is the use in trying to make people think you are a simpleton, when you aren't." "Dreadful!" said Eurie. "Is that what I'm doing?
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