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Then, too, he reflected that it would be very awkward if Agatha should be unwell while this Patricia person was in the house. Agatha in her normal state was of course the kindliest and cheeriest gentlewoman in the universe, but any physical illness appeared to transform her nature disastrously.
"And tell my father the wish of his heart Has not been breathed in vain, The doom he desired when he made me depart, Has been sealed, and his son is slain! "And, O! to my mother, in kindliest tone, The mournful tidings bear, And soothe her woes for her warrior gone, For her lost Isfendiyár." He now groaned heavily, and his last words were:
She had turned back her calico sun-bonnet, and stood looking up at Mrs. Howth and Joel, laughing as they talked with her. The face would have startled you on so old and stunted a body. It was a child's face, quick, eager, with that pitiful beauty you always see in deformed people. Her eyes, I think, were the kindliest, the hopefullest I ever saw.
After kindliest greetings, and a few personal items, it went on: "All the strange happenings of the past months have strangely unnerved me. I cannot understand things, 'I dunno where I are, as that curious catch-saying of the nineteenth century put it. I live like a man in a troubled dream, a night-mare.
What he writes that is worth publishing, I will publish, but it will be judged on its merits alone, and without any remembrance of his private associations. He will have his chance!" He put out his hands and held her gently by the elbows, smiling at her the while with the kindliest of smiles. "Now are you satisfied, little girl?
While the feeling on his part toward Madeline was of the kindliest, and Madeline's was, he felt sure, the same toward him, nevertheless to meet her day after day, as people must meet in a village no bigger than South Harniss, would be awkward for both. And to meet Mrs. Fosdick might be more awkward still.
'No; I can see by the stars I want to see the school again. They make kindliest protests in vain: the dying boy only repeats, with the plaintive persistence of a last 'I want to see the school again; I want to see it now. So there is a murmured consultation in the neighbouring room; and tansu-drawers are unlocked, warm garments prepared.
Of another, who was buried last night, I hear this: Only a little while before his death, and in spite of kindliest protest, he found strength, on seeing his president approaching his bedside, to rise on his elbow and give the military salute. And with that brave greeting to a brave man, he passed into the Great Silence. At last my passport has come. I must go.
The outraged feelings of offended morality were now bolstered up by those of scandalized good taste. The kindliest of them said: "He is trying to be particular." But most alleged: "Total verrueckt!"
He was an elderly man, as first lieutenants of big ships were then, great with the paint-brush and tar-pot, traces of which were continually surprising one's clothes; mighty also in that lavish swashing of sea-water which is called washing decks, and in the tropics is not so bad; but otherwise, while he was one of the kindliest of men, the go was pretty well out of him.
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