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Updated: June 3, 2025
Brent, that you visited your cousin here in the town about Christmas last? Did he say anything to you about Hathelsborough at that time? I mean, as regards what he called his Augean stables task?" Brent hesitated. He glanced at the eagerly-listening spectators, and he smiled a little. "Well," he replied half-hesitatingly, "he did!
He stepped into the living-room as he passed through the hall and reached for his pipe in a rack above the mantel. "Do you smoke," he asked half-hesitatingly, but with an excess of courtesy in his voice as if he were apologizing for asking such a question. "Sometimes; a pipe, if you please." He held out his hand; Champney handed him a sweetbrier and a tobacco pouch. "You permit, Madam?"
He was rather past middle age, when he bethought him of insuring his life; and he had only just taken out his policy, when he fell ill of an acute disease which was certain to end fatally in a very few days. The doctor, half-hesitatingly, revealed to him his hopeless state. "By jingo!" cried he, rousing up at once into the old energy, "I shall do the insurance company!
This is my one moment of madness in a perfectly well-ordered life." One of her hands stole from her muff, stole out half-hesitatingly towards him. Julien took it in his and raised it to his lips. Then he looked her in the eyes. "Dear Mabel," he said, "you are forgiven. I understand perfectly the reasons for your coming.
The stranger picked up the small portmanteau he had set down in the road, and prepared to walk off, then turned half-hesitatingly back to Tom. "Can you tell me where I can get a night or two's lodging? It does not much matter where it is as long as it is clean and quiet." Tom took off his cap and rubbed his head thoughtfully. "Mrs. Lake's a wonderful good sort of woman." "And who may Mrs.
It was best that "Thinking Bayonets" should be there to hear and see for himself. "No, indeed, don't do anything of the kind," said the general promptly when asked half-hesitatingly by the captain of the guard whether he preferred to exclude the men. And in this unusual presence the brief, straightforward examination went on. First to tell his tale was the corporal of the second relief.
Werry well, sez I, ma, go." Messrs. Newt & Son smiled deferentially, and hoped Mrs. Van B. would enjoy herself. "No, I ain't no fear of that," replied the millionaire. "Mr. Van Boozenberg," said Boniface Newt, half-hesitatingly, "you were very kind to undertake that little favor I I " "Oh! yes, I come in to say I done that as you wanted. It's all right." "And, Mr.
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