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Updated: June 19, 2025
At the very time she was going off into smiling slumber one hand nestling in the white fox furs on her pillow it happened that her father was making half-apologetic explanations to her mother: everything had seemed to come down on the child in a lump commands against walking and against boys and against going out nights and everything. He couldn't help feeling for the youngster.
And if you will notice, night after night, there is one dark form that ever hurries last and late toward the twinkling lights of Swain Hall, for Jones is never on time. A long, straggling fellow he is, brown and hard-haired, who seems to be growing straight out of his clothes, and walks with a half-apologetic roll.
But, to Falloner's utter consternation, no sooner had the door closed on the servant than the boy, with a half-apologetic glance at the young lady, uttered a childish cry, broke from her, and calling, "Dick! Dick!" ran forward and leaped into Falloner's arms. The mere shock of the onset and his own amazement left Bob without breath for words.
"I have taken a chill," said Mary, doggedly. "Go instantly to the still-room maid, and get a large glass of spirits and hot water quite hot." Mary, who wanted to be out of the room, fastened her mistress's back hair with dogged patience, and then moved toward the door. "Mary," said Lady Bassett, in a half-apologetic tone. "My lady." "I should like to hear what the bride is like."
"Father always says," she continued, "that people aren't nearly as good now as they were in the old times, when Mr. McAlpine used to come here. He says we young folks have too good a time." She gave a little half-apologetic laugh. Duncan looked up suddenly with a feeling of joyful surprise.
I was soon directed, by various smart-looking servants, to my cousin's rooms; and after a few mistakes, and wandering up and down noble courts and cloisters, swarming with gay young men, whose jaunty air and dress seemed strangely out of keeping with the stem antique solemnity of the Gothic buildings around, I espied my cousin's name over a door; and, uncertain how he might receive me, I gave a gentle, half-apologetic knock, which, was answered by a loud "Come in!" and I entered on a scene, even more incongruous than anything I had seen outside.
We took our cue from him with an evident alacrity. Every one looked as if he or she were saying something that began with a half-apologetic "Well..."; and Mrs. Jervaise interpreted our spirit when she remarked to the company in general, "Well, it's very late, I'm afraid, and I dare say we've all got a lot to do before we start for church.
Now I, who had called the word of this man in question, had called him old chap, and was considerably better dressed than himself; so, after a little hesitation, he became quite gentle, and something more, for he said in a half-apologetic tone "Well, sir, I did not exactly see him myself, but a particular friend of mine heer'd a man say, that he heer'd another man say, that he was told that a man heer'd that that fellow "
When he prescribes, it is in a half-apologetic, half-quizzical manner, and almost with a wink, as if he were to say, "This is a game, old man, but I suppose it's as honest a way of earning one's living as most ways." While he writes out his directions, he comments: "There is nothing the matter with you, and you will take this powder three times a day with your meals.
He told himself that, despite his unprecedented suffering, he had never lost his greed for a victory, yet, he said, in a half-apologetic manner to his conscience, he could not but know that a defeat for the army this time might mean many favorable things for him. The blows of the enemy would splinter regiments into fragments.
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