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'But here we are, Jassie, and as she spoke she turned down a small passage, not wide enough to be called by a more important name, leading out of the already poor and narrow street they were in, and knocked at a door a few steps on. It was quickly opened. A rather gaunt and careworn, but clean and honest-looking, elderly woman stood before them.
"'Enough, she said, 'I know all, and then she spoke some words again, her eyes fixed as before, and the reverse change came. Before us stood once more the honest-looking, fine-appearing gentleman, Richard Burwell, of New York. "'Excuse me, madame, he said, awkwardly, but with deference; 'I must have dosed a little. I am not myself to-night.
At these informal meetings with people who usually wanted some favor from him, no case was too trivial to receive his attention. Taking advantage of the opportunity, there came one day, says Mr. C. Van Santvoord, "a sturdy, honest-looking German soldier, minus a leg, who hobbled up to the President on crutches.
He jumped up like the anxious old man that he was, caught up his own hat from a back table, and without observing the other hastened out and downstairs. Left alone she gazed and gazed at the back of the door, then spasmodically rang the bell. An honest-looking country maid-servant appeared in response. 'A hat! murmured Baptista, pointing with her finger. 'It does not belong to us.
At the old dock they were met by a big boy and a country wagon. This was Foster Manning, the eldest grandson of the family. "Oh," cried Betty in amazement, "how you have grown! It is Foster?" He smiled and blushed under the sunburn a thin, angular boy, tall for his age, with rather large features and light-brown hair with tawny streaks in it. But his gray-blue eyes were bright and honest-looking.
In 1865 I was waited upon at Westminster by a very influential deputation from the Barnstaple electors honest-looking electors as any candidate could wish to see bringing with them a requisition signed by almost innumerable independent electors, and stating that there were a great many more of the same respectable class who would have signed had time been permitted.
He said, sort o' dreamily, "that those views and aspirations of Josiah's wasn't really needed at Washington, they had plenty of them there; and" But I says, "I must have a plainer answer to ease my mind and heart. Do tell me plain, would you dast?" He looked full at me. He has got good, honest-looking eyes, and a sensible, candid look onto him.
I cautioned her to engage an honest-looking waiting-woman, so as to appear respectably in the world, and, to lead such a life as would permit me to make her my wife, on my return, without being ashamed of myself.
Salisbury was half consciously cherishing an expectation of some one as crisp and cheerful as a trained nurse might have been, she was disappointed. Justine was simply a nice, honest-looking American country girl, in a cheap, neat, brown suit and a dreadful hat.
On the day after I said good-bye to him, my father went for his usual morning walk, and was absent for two hours. It seems that, somewhere on the lonely road, he came across two men, honest-looking country folk, engaged in a violent quarrel; their language made it clear that one accused the other of some sort of slander, a very trivial affair.
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