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"Come away with you?" "Leave this place. Give it up." "You brought me here, you insisted it should be only you, and now you must stay," she declared with a head-shake and a high manner. "You should know what you want, dear Mr. Sherringham." "I do I know now. Come away before you see her." "Before ?" she seemed to wonder.
"I am, Cookie," I admitted. The whites of Cookie's eyes became alarmingly conspicuous. Drawing near in a stealthy manner he whispered: "Yo' bettah not, Miss Jinny!" "Better not?" I repeated, staring. He answered with a portentous head-shake. "Oh, nonsense, Cookie!" I said impatiently, "There's not a thing on the island but the pigs!" "Miss Jinny," he solemnly replied, "dey's pigs and pigs."
Wish you would." Gerald smiled again in his remote way, and looked as if he knew, as any one would know, that this was not meant to be taken seriously. "I have just seen a beautiful spectacle," he said, after a vague head-shake that thanked her shadowily for an unreal invitation. "A game of pallone, which is the nearest to your football that boys have over here.
"Then get hold of him, and if he's a gentleman he'll prove for you, to the hilt, that he wasn't." It lighted in her face, the kindled train of this particular sudden suggestion, a glow, a sharpness of interest, that had deepened the next moment, while she gave a slow and sad head-shake, to a greater strangeness yet. "He isn't a gentleman." "Ah, lordy, lordy!" Mr. Pitman again sighed.
Gerald again smiled his civil, but joyless, smile, and after another vague head-shake that thanked, but eluded the question, he said: "They are very indigestible; hot bread is not good for the health. At least, that is what they tell us over here. We keep our bread two days before eating it, or longer. But I am afraid I am detaining you."
But the phlegmatic Englishman won't lead in that dégringolade. 'You mean we won't be among the first of the great nations to give women the Suffrage? 'England? The slow head-shake and the smile airily relegated the Woman's Movement to the limbo of the infinitely distant. 'Just because the men won't have it? and for the second time she said, 'I wonder.
After which, as he replied only with a slow head-shake that seemed to say it was not for the moment all so simple as that, she had one of the inspirations to which she was constitutionally subject. "Do you imagine I want you myself?" "Dear Mrs.
Quonab looked inquiringly, for, of course, he heard the shot. He saw a glum and sorry-looking youth, who in response to his inquiring look gave merely a head-shake, and hung up the gun with a vicious bang. Quonab took down the gun, wiped it out, reloaded it, then turning to the boy said: "Nibowaka, you feel pretty sick. Ugh! You know why? You got a good chance, but you got buck fever.
"I am not going back. I want to see the body this man's body. I want to see his face.... No; I am not a child, mamma. Let me have my way." "If you must, darling, you must. But I cannot see what use it can be. See here is Aunt Constance! She does not want to see it...." A confirmatory head-shake from Miss Dickenson. "Why should you?" "Aunt Constance never spoke to him. I did. And he spoke to me.
It had this time better success if the term may be felt in any degree to apply. All his candour, or more of it at least, was in his slow, mild, kind, considering head-shake. "No, Cornelia not to marry you." His discrimination was a wonder; but since she was clearly treating him now as if everything about him was, so she could as exquisitely meet it.
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