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Fleming Stone devoted himself to the sisters; probably, I concluded, because he was in their employ, and so owed them his attention. Ruth wore her beautiful pearls, and referred to the fact, half-apologetically, saying that Mr. Schuyler had liked always to see them on her, and she felt privileged to continue to use them, even in her mourning period. "You like only poils pearls, don't you, Mrs.
"Sorry I had to do it," the chairman said, half-apologetically, half-defiantly. Jacob Welse smiled. "You took your chance," he answered, "and I can't blame you. I only wish I'd got you, though." Excited voices arose from across the cabin. "Here, you! Leggo!" "Step on his fingers, Tim!" "Break that grip!" "Ouch! Ow!" "Pry his mouth open!" Frona saw a knot of struggling men about St.
In all this there was nothing dramatic nor even startling to her. Nor did there seem to be any present danger impending to the man. He did not look like a horse-thief nor a criminal. And he had tried to laugh, half-apologetically, half-bitterly, the consciousness of a man who had to ask help of a woman at such a moment. She gave a quick glance towards the house.
Society protects the physically weak from the physically strong; the physical highwayman usually gets his deserts; but the mental highwayman preys upon the weak and the inexperienced and the unorganized, and Society votes him a good citizen and a success. "I had a plan," Merton continued, half-apologetically, as though his plan did him little credit; "I had a plan, but it can't be worked out.
The tallest of them seemed to be receiving the humorous congratulations of his companions. He shook hands all around and remarked half-apologetically: "I ain't a drinkin' man, reg'lar . . . but there are times . . ." The five men drifted easily toward the swing-doors. Presently they emerged. Shoop nudged his employer. David Loring and his daughter had just crossed the street.
Halfway through one of his most intimate speeches Toni interrupted him ruthlessly. "Aunt Jean, where's Lu?" "Got smacked and sent to bed for stealing jam," her youngest cousin informed her unctuously. "My! She did howl! I guess Ma thumped her pretty well!" "I did whip her rather hard," confessed Mrs. Gibbs half-apologetically.
No man, with a pretty woman's hand and a handful of snow over his mouth and nose, could effectively utter a heroic sentence, nor, with his arm elevated stiffly over his head, assume a heroic attitude. But, when his mouth was free again, he said half-sulkily, half-apologetically, "I might have known a girl couldn't throw worth a cent." "Why?" demanded Miss Alice sharply.
And the man's manners precisely harmonized with his clothes, whereby the whole effect was emphasized and rendered bizarre. Garson took one amazed look, and then rocked with laughter. Griggs regarded his former associate reproachfully for a moment, and then grinned in frank sympathy. "Really, Mr. Griggs, you quite overcome me," Mary said, half-apologetically.
"My nephew is going to leave the school, Mr. Roscoe," said Socrates, half-apologetically. "I should think it was full time, Mr. Smith." "Perhaps so," said Smith; "but if I have stood by him, it has been in ignorance. I cannot think him as wrong as your ward has probably represented. Hector was jealous of him." "Of his scholarship, I presume?"
He took one of her hands in his, and drew her against him, an arm soothingly about her shoulder. For several minutes of silence Dick idly speculated on what her thoughts might be. "You know, we hard-bitten old fellows " he began half-apologetically, half-humorously. But she made a restless movement of distaste, and cried out: "Are the only ones worth while!
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