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Updated: May 4, 2025
"Come on, men," he gave brusque and half-peremptory invitation, "this hyar's whar we b'longs at."
"Oh yes they will," she repeated, and warned her brother into the background with a gesture half-pleading half-peremptory. "We are your children, and we're not bad or undutiful children at all, and I'm sure that when you think it all over, mamma, you'll see that it would be absurd to let anything come between you and us."
But Helen had been moved by the melodies, which came to her as an echo from her childhood. She understood the half-peremptory accent in Arthur's voice to which she had so often yielded, but to which she would not now submit. "No," she answered. "How can you ask me. My barbaric chant would be wholly out of keeping here. Some other time I shall be glad to sing for Mrs. Fenton; now I must go home."
An absentee, voluntarily, I never yet have been; and as to the future, I declare 'I declare you know nothing of the future, interrupted Lady Dashfort, in a half-peremptory, half-playful tone 'you know nothing; make no rash vows, and you will break none.
His tone was half-whining, half-peremptory, his once precise writing smeared and illegible; and these indications, combined with her former suspicions, convinced her that, for the moment, he was unfit for medical work.
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