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They urged her to consider, and not to decide hastily. They would wait, weeks or months, till her brother was better, so that she could leave him with her aunt. But no. It could not be. It would seem like forsaking him. She had promised their mother always to take care of him. Nothing could make it right to break that promise. "Indeed you must not be grieved, or think me ungrateful," she pleaded.
I staggered on to dry land to follow him the easier, and dragged at my watch to time the fish; a quarter to eight. But the slim chain had broken, and the watch, as I hastily thrust it back, missed my pocket and fell into the water.
Kingston's door. No, Dr. Kingston was not at home; nor would be in for some time; but while we were thinking what to do, a young man came hastily up, saying "I am Dr. Kingston's partner; can I do anything?" Harold sprang out on this, forbidding Eustace to follow him, but permitting Dermot; and Mrs.
"I am old enough, almost, to be your mother, and perhaps my advice might.... No? Very well. You know best but You understand that it is something other than mere curiosity which leads me to ask." "Of course, I understand," said the girl hastily. "Thank you very much. Perhaps, by and by, I can tell you everything. But we must see Mr. Graves first. I oh, don't ask me more now, Mrs. Dunn."
The result of this secret survey was, that he shaded his face with his hands, and laughed slyly and noiselessly, until every vein in it was swollen almost to bursting. Pulling his hat over his brow to conceal his mirth and its effects, he tossed the letter to the child, and hastily withdrew.
She had only spoken half a sentence, when hastily she closed her mouth again. "You are at liberty to proceed," urged Madame Wang. "If your ladyship will not get angry, I'll speak out," remarked Hsi Jen. "Why should I get angry?" observed Madame Wang. "Proceed!" "According to what's proper," resumed Hsi Jen, "our Mr.
So she rose hastily, and then perceived that the lady Euryale must already have come to see her, for she found fresh milk by the bedside, and some rolls of manuscript which had not been there the day before.
"And I'd rather be licked," said a voice beside them, "and be like you two fellows, than escape being licked, and be like Stone and Symes, or even like myself." "Who's that?" asked Elgood hastily, for it was not light enough to see. "Me Hanley. Don't you fellows give in; it will only make you miserable, as it has done me."
About 8 P.M. we came to a corner, a bad one; but we were unable to leap on to the bank and haul round, not being able to see either the details or the exact position of the said bank, and we felt, I think naturally, disinclined to spring in the direction of such bits of country as we had had experience of during the afternoon, with nothing but the aid we might have got from a compass hastily viewed by the transitory light of a lucifer match, and even this would not have informed us how many tens of feet of tree fringe lay between us and the land, so we did not attempt it.
"This has nothing to do with you, Charles," interposed Austin hastily. "I think it has," said his son. "You told me nothing about this, you know." "I was not aware of it myself," replied his father. "Now that I know, I shall have nothing further to do with this," continued the young man. "I'm not going to help you wrong Sisily."
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