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Updated: May 13, 2025
And when a man wants to talk like that "how-do-you-do" is as good a catchphrase as the next to keep his tongue discreet. "I do very well," she told him, smiling at him, maddening him, "I always do well, here in my garden, but you, you put my sense of well-being to shame. You look so glad!" "I am the gladdest man on earth," Bruce told her, knowing chiefly that he had her hand in his.
But Cally had seen that the man from another world was stepping out from his obscurity; and now there sounded above the Avery periods the vivid voice first heard in the summer-house. "Miss Heth! may I say how-do-you-do?... I hadn't seen you till that moment. In fact, I had no idea you were here ..." "Oh, yes, indeed.
When acquaintances passed on the street they did not say "how-do-you-do"; they looked at each other's bulging pockets and said, "lemme see your rock."
"I am just in from Old Chester," he said, "and I thought I'd come and say how-do-you-do to your father, and tell you the latest news of Mrs. Richie " The front door banged, and Lloyd Pryor pushed aside the curtain. William had wondered what Martha would say to a curtain instead of a door! His blank panic as he heard the doctor's last word, turned his face white. "Dr. King!
In those chill early hours we slept little, huddling together in numb misery and waiting for the sunrise in order to get warm. When we went outside there was a crackle of frost under foot. One morning we discovered ice on the surface of the quiet water in the eddy where was the drinking-place, and there was a great How-do-you-do about it.
My automobiliness is the reason I've only sent you snippy "how-do-you-do and good-bye" notes, interspersed with telegrams, for the last few days, just thanking you for wise advice, and saying "Glad-you're-well; so-am-I." You will guess from my very handwriting that I'm feeling more at home in life than I did when I wrote you last.
Have you really cares of state, that you walk five times round this fountain, bump into me, and start to go on without so much as a how-do-you-do?" "I'm absent-minded," Carmichael admitted. "Not always, my friend." "No, not always. You have some other meaning?" "That is possible.
"Thats a nice how-do-you-do," said Mr. O'Connor. "How does he expect us to work for him if he won't stump up?" "I can't help it," said Mr. Henchy. "I expect to find the bailiffs in the hall when I go home." Mr. Hynes laughed and, shoving himself away from the mantelpiece with the aid of his shoulders, made ready to leave. "It'll be all right when King Eddie comes," he said.
That afternoon I called at his house with my model, and as I stepped in, said: "How-do-you-do, Brother Long?" He smiled pleasantly, and extending his hand inquired my name. "Why," said I, "I am a son of your sister Keefer. Johnston is my name. Mr. Keefer is my step-father." "O, I understand. Take a chair; lay off your hat. Aren't you the young man who led in prayer the other evening?"
"My good sir," the old woman continued in a stentorian voice, "what are you standing THERE for, with your eyes almost falling out of your head? Cannot you come and say how-do-you-do? Are you too proud to shake hands? Or do you not recognise me? "Just think! Alexis Ivanovitch does not recognise me! They have buried me for good and all!
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