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So Pennie, with rather an awed feeling, followed her godmother into the shop, and was soon much interested in her purchases; also in the half-confidential and wholly respectful remarks made from time to time across the counter by Mrs Bolton, who had bustled forward to serve them.
Then his eyes looked up into the queer face of the girl who looked down at him. The sulkiness cleared away from his brow, and he said, in an eager, hurried, half-shy, half-confidential way, "I say, do you like rabbits?" "Dote on 'em," said Maggie. "Then I'm your man, and I don't mind being Peterkins to you; and will you will you come and see mine?
The gentleman immediately returned to the supper-room. As he joined the company there he met a friend to whom he said in a half-confidential way: "Do you know anything about General Abercrombie's relations with his wife? "What do you mean?" inquired the friend, with evident surprise. "I saw something just now that looks very suspicious." "What?" "I came here with Mrs.
It had burned low between the logs, but it gave the lonely spot a comfortable home-like look, and the bush was dark. Thirlwell, sitting where the faint light touched him, somehow added to the charm by a hint of human fellowship. He looked as if he were resting by his hearth, and she had spent a happy hour with him in quiet, half-confidential talk. "Thank you. Good-night," she said, and went away.
Toplady alone, and heard from her, in easy, half-confidential chat, a great deal about Lady Ogram and Miss Tomalin, information such as he would never himself have sought, but which, set off by his hostess's pleasant manner, entertained and somewhat interested him. For the young lady and her aged relative shone in no common light as Mrs. Toplady exhibited them.
Miss Vandeleur gave Millard one of the bows she kept ready for people of no particular consequence. "Mr. Millard is real old crockery," said Philip in a half-confidential tone. "Some of us think it enough to be Revolutionary, but he is a descendant of Rip Van Dam, the old governor of New York in the seventeenth century."
"And do you think," he asked with logical deliberation, "that you could find any plant from another I should give you?" "Yes." "Or from a drawing of it" "Yes; perhaps even if you described it to me." A half-confidential, half-fraternal silence followed. "I tell you what. I've got a book " "I know it," interrupted Teresa; "full of these things." "Yes. Do you think you could "
"And do you think," he asked with logical deliberation, "that you could find any plant from another I should give you?" "Yes." "Or from a drawing of it?" "Yes; perhaps even if you described it to me." A half-confidential, half fraternal silence followed. "I tell you what. I've got a book" "I know it," interrupted Teresa; "full of these things." "Yes. Do you think you could"
He fixed his lowering eyes on the major as if in gloomy doubt if he were really the reckless desperado he had been represented. That this man twice an assassin and the ruler of outlaws as reckless as himself should approach him in this half-confidential way evidently puzzled him. "Wot you wanter know?" he asked gruffly. "Well, what's my party saying or doing about me?" said the major impatiently.
Half an hour afterward, they called at my office, and the acute mother, in a half-confidential, serio-comic whisper, said: "Mr. B., it's astonishing to what a number of purposes the ingenuity of us Yankees has applied india-rubber."
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