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Now I wanted to see Jacob Herapath alone. And as there didn't seem to be any chance of it just then, I went home to my flat in Maida Vale." "Walked in?" asked Davidge. "If you're particular as to the means, I took a taxi-cab at the Gardens end of the High Street," replied Burchill, half-contemptuously. He turned his attention to Selwood and the Professor again.
She was afraid she would never attain to the fluctuations of price in the fish market in different seasons of the year, the starching of muslins, the time it took to cook a pudding, and how much sugar went to a pot of preserved fruit; and her mother destroyed the last remnant of self-confidence when half-pityingly, half-contemptuously she told her that she was not sufficiently developed to understand such things.
'I do not know. Her lips curled in a fine scorn. 'As if it mattered, she said half-contemptuously, 'as if it mattered what anybody had sprung from. I was reading Burns this morning, and I felt as if I could worship him if for nothing more than writing these lines "The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that."
"It is unconventional, to say the least." He lifted his hand and examined the ring with an air of newly aroused interest. He wondered, half-contemptuously, at the man's self-control. "Monsieur," he heard him say. "You are a gentleman; I perceive it beneath the disguise of your vocation, of your conduct.
Why look for anything great or vital from one born and bred in the vitiated air of the town? "Oh, well," he said, half-contemptuously, and not half trying to hide his contempt, "you are doing very well as it is. Some of your work is not without traces of style; and I suppose style is what you are after. But meat for me!"
I I scarcely comprehend!" "Well, the length, breadth, and thickness, if you like it better!" And the old man smiled, half-contemptuously. The Lord Chancellor recovered himself with a great effort, and pointed to the open window. And at that moment there surged into the room a hoarse confused cry, in which the only clearly audible words were "Less bread More taxes!" The old man laughed heartily.
Brace tried, and by exercising a little pressure he cut through the yellow scale almost as easily as if it had been lead. "There," said the young man half-contemptuously, "what does that prove?" "That it is pure gold," replied Briscoe. "But all is not gold that glitters," said Sir Humphrey, laughing. "Not by a long way," said Briscoe; "but that is metal?" "Certainly." "It is yellow?"
"So am I," said Nick. They faced one another for a moment in open conflict; then half-contemptuously Max made an appeal. "Don't let us be fools!" he said. "It's for her sake I want you to go. I'll tell you why later. If you butt in now, you will make the biggest mistake of your life." "Take your hands off me!" said Nick. He complied. Nick went straight to Olga.
God himself will help me, if I ask him. He knows how much I stand in need of it." "I am glad you are so likely to be supported," returned the girl, half-earnestly, half-contemptuously. "Are you satisfied in regard to Mr. Archer Trevlyn?" "I will not credit it!" cried Margie, passionately. "He did not do that deed! He could not! So good, and noble, and pitiful of all suffering humanity!
Behind the stranger pressed his three companions now, whilst the troopers across the room forgot their card-play to watch the altercation that seemed to impend. The foreigner for such, indeed, his French proclaimed him turned half-contemptuously to the host, ignoring Garnache with an air that was studiously offensive. "Jackanapes?" murmured Garnache again, and he, too, turned to the host.
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