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Since they had become friends she had often given him a good handshake, but she did not seem to want to help him with the heavy work. Tönne still thought that she ought to have understood that it was now her house which he meant to build. She understood it very well, but she had no desire to give herself to such a man as Tönne. She wished to have a strong and healthy husband.
It was the village which our two brigades of artillery occupied when the Armistice was signed, where the King came to see us, and M. le Maire, in his excitement, gave His Majesty that typically French, shall I say? clasp of intimacy and brotherliness, a left-handed handshake. "Curious thing happened on that rise," remarked Collinge when we were in open country again.
At that instant Helen caught sight of Benjamin Clymer and his companion, Philip Rochester, and her pale cheeks flushed faintly at the lawyer's approach. He had time but for a hasty handshake before the clerk administered the oath to the prisoner and the witnesses in the case. Rochester walked back and resumed his seat by Clymer.
Don't fail to look in on me when you come to town; and rest assured that the Santa Fé will leave nothing undone that might help your enterprise." With a hearty handshake the Manager, usually a little frigid and remote, passed out, leaving Mr. Jones to the tender mercies of the chief engineer. Up to this point there is nothing unusual in this story.
There is something weirdly pathetic about the picture of that white-haired veteran greeting with his loving handshake this friend who had been dead forty years.
Coming out of church, one morning, we had an accident the only one that happened around me on a Sunday. I was just having a hearty handshake with a friend I hadn't seen for a while, and saying, 'Drop into our cave to-night, after bombardment; we've got hold of a pint of prime wh . Whiskey, I was going to say, you know, but a shell interrupted.
He despises such subtle courtesies. They smack of the cavalier and the court to him. He is content with a nod of the head and a hurried handshake. So are his neighbors. They would grow suspicious of each other's honesty if they did more. Tut, tut, my dear Richard! My prince's grooms greeted each other in that way." Richard and Nathan laughed heartily.
Yet everyone of these plebes received many a handshake from the upper classmen and a hearty good wish for success in life. More doleful still felt the dropped third classmen, who had been at the Military Academy for two years, and who had thoroughly expected to "get through" into the Army somehow.
'Well, I replied, 'he will probably want another safe-conduct before answering that question. 'Do you think that a safe-conduct to take Dreyfus's place would suit him? was M. Zola's retort. But the clock was now on the stroke of the hour, the carriage doors were hastily closed, and the signal for departure was given. 'Au revoir, au revoir! A last handshake, and the train started.
But now he turned, widening his face into a smile and extending his hand, which Orme took rather dubiously it was supple and moist. "Oh, this is Mr. Orme, is it not?" "Yes," said Orme, freeing himself from the unpleasant handshake. "Mr. Robert Orme?" "Yes, that is my name. What can I do for you?"
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