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He had repeated the name very softly, yet with a peculiar intonation, which made me at once aware that the name was of interest to him. "Yes! Do you know him?" I asked inanely. "Is his wife here?" he asked. "Lady Dennisford is seldom away," I answered. "She entertains a good deal down here. A very popular woman in the county." He seemed to be measuring the distance across the park with his eyes.
"Ah, the trap!" repeated Anthony, inanely. "Certainly!" she said, with a hint of impatience. Then, as he still stared, she added quickly: "You're the man from Peterson's? From San Mateo? You came to fix it, didn't you?" "Not at all," said Anthony, smiling. "I came from New York." Light dawned in the girl's eyes. She gave a horrified laugh. "Well, how stupid of me!" she ejaculated.
Revealed by the weird light, the miserable countenance of the miser had never looked so contemptible. The sputtering flame seemed to have the power to betray all the miserly emotions and mean parsimonies usually concealed behind its starved pallor. The lips had fallen inanely apart with an absurd look of silly wonder.
Each of them was Tommy Atkins the inanely smirking hero of the picture-paper and the funny paragraph.
To give a nigger a few more years of freedom when, likely as not, he don't want it; and Berry Hamilton's life in prison has proved nearer the ideal reached by slavery than anything he has found since emancipation. Why, suhs, I fancy I see him leaving his prison with tears of regret in his eyes." Old Horace was inanely eloquent for an hour over his pet theory.
The thought keeps coming that, bad as things have been, there are worse ahead of me unhappiness more unhappiness like a preparation for something." Distinctly impressed, Mrs. Toomey exclaimed inanely: "Oh, my! Do you think so?" Was she going to get "mixed up" in something, she wondered.
Frona, rubbing her feet vigorously, paused and looked up. "Don't let me chill the festivities just because I'm cold," she laughed. "Please go on." Jake Cornell straightened up and cleared his throat inanely, and the Virgin looked over-dignified; but Blanche came over and took the towel out of Frona's hands.
The Patriarch, meanwhile, came inanely beaming towards the counting-house in the wake of Pancks. Pancks opened the door for him, towed him in, and retired to his own moorings in a corner. 'I heard from Flora, said the Patriarch with his benevolent smile, 'that she was coming to call, coming to call. And being out, I thought I'd come also, thought I'd come also.
Alton and Seaforth were almost the last to file out of the smoking-room, and when they reached the corridor the former turned upon his comrade with a glint in his half-closed eyes. "You show a curious taste for a man raised as you have been in the old country," he said. "Now what in the name of thunder made you tell that story?" Seaforth smiled somewhat inanely.
"Does Lady Errington play?" "A little," he answered. "She sings." At once there was a chorus of inanely polite voices round the piano, "Oh, do sing, Lady Errington! Please, give us one song!" and Sir Francis Lennox, sauntering up, fixed his languorous gaze on Thelma's face, murmuring, "You will not be so cruel as to refuse us such delight?"
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