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You know you are older than I. I couldn't think of being so impolite as to go first. I really couldn't think of such a thing." And so they argued and argued, each insisting in the most polite way that the other should go first. If the truth were known, neither of them was insisting out of politeness at all.
It has not been lighted for this ever so long, and the oil may have dried up." Around she whirled and away she went, leaving Ned to his own devices. His next thought was almost impolite, after all, for he was more than half glad that she did go, so that he might have the library all to himself to rummage in.
Some of the donkeys were white, some were brown, or gray, or black, or spotted; but their hair was sleek and smooth and their broad collars and caps gave them a neat, if whimsical, appearance. "This is a nice way to welcome visitors, I must say!" remarked the shaggy man, in a reproachful tone. "Oh, we did not mean to be impolite," replied a grey donkey which had not spoken before.
"The Mohawks were an Iroquois tribe," he explained courteously. "Mohawks, Senecas, Tionontati, Cayuga, Oneida all were tribes of the Iroquois. Yes I see you recognize those names many places in this country have been named for Indians." "Are you an Iroquois?" asked Betty, rather timidly, for she feared lest the question should be considered impolite. "I am a Kiowa," announced the redman proudly.
I answered with the smallest enthusiasm, whereupon he further asked me an impolite question if I ever did fishing.
"Aunt Minerva say you come over an' listen to her read some er the pretties' tales you ever hear," he said, as if conferring a great favor. "Naw, sirree-bob!" was the impolite response across the fence, "them 'bout the measliest tales they is. I'll come if she'll read my Uncle Remus book."
The women of the middle and lower classes are strikingly pretty, sometimes beautiful; the men surly and impolite, and the comforts of life to which we are accustomed in civilized lands are entirely lacking. In this respect I find Russia pleasanter to travel in than Spain.
"Now, if you are ready, I'm going to drive past your way and you can ride almost to Onabasha with me, and save the new shoes that much." Elnora was staring at the box. "Oh I hope it isn't impolite to open it before you," she said. "I just feel as if I must see inside." "Don't you stand on formality with the neighbours," laughed Sinton. "Look in your box if you want to!"
"I thought so, you brave, generous girl. That was like your father, and reminds me of a bit of experience. We were on a forced march, and the provision train had not kept up. It was night, and we were too weary to hunt around for a morsel. We'll go halves, and so we did. He was so impolite as to take his half first. Do you know why?" "I can guess," she replied with downcast brimming eyes.
He had no wish to seem boastful to these people of a younger nation, so he tried to say it courteously. But Edith was impolite enough to say, "The men and women in your city seem to do nothing now but make glass, and carve wood, and weave lace. In so many hundred years they might have learned a good many new things, it seems to me." The boy flushed.
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