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Updated: May 11, 2025
And while a dozen voices are pronouncing her beverage excellent, she turns suddenly and nervously to her massive, old-fashioned side-board, of carved walnut, and from the numerous cut glass that range grotesquely along its top, draws forth an aldermanic decanter, much broken.
Jethro had parted his coat tails and seated himself enjoyably on the bed. "D-don't come often," he said, "m-might as well have the best." "Jethro," said Wetherell, coughing nervously and fumbling in the pocket of his coat, "you've been very kind to us, and we hardly know how to thank you. I I didn't have any use for these." He held out the pieces of cardboard which had come in Cynthia's letter.
The brigadier raised his glass of claret a few inches from the table, but his hand was too unsteady, and he set the glass down again untouched. I was helplessly sorry for him. There was something abject and humiliating in his averted gaze. Beneath his white moustache his lips were twitching nervously. For a few moments there was silence, and I dreaded his next words.
And Edward looked about him nervously, as if he thought the Slavish widow might appear suddenly in the hotel lobby to demonstrate her emotional nature. "No," replied Hal, "it's just one of those differences in national customs." And suddenly Hal's face gave way. He began to laugh; he laughed, perhaps more loudly than good form permitted. Edward was much annoyed.
You needn't worry about Fred. He's been in four smash-ups." The young man bent forward to listen, but from no part of the great house came any sign. He exclaimed angrily. "They must be drugged," he growled. He ran to the desk and made vicious jabs at the ivory buttons. "Suppose they're out of order!" he whispered. There was the sound of leaping feet. The young man laughed nervously.
"Marked 'immediate, Sir; so I thought that I had better serve it at once," said the first infant, handing the letter to John. "What is it?" asked Eustace, nervously. He had grown to hate the sight of a lawyer's letter with a deadly hate. "Notice of appeal, I expect," said John. "Open it, man!" said Eustace, "and let's get it over." Accordingly, John did so, and read as follows:
"Never fear, little one!" Calendar's laugh was nervously cheerful. "The Lord knows you're welcome." "Thank you 'most to death," responded Kirkwood politely. "Good-by and good-by to you, Stryker. 'Glad to have humored your desire to meet me soon again."
Forward!" roared Peter, and the mahout, who had been nervously watching his every movement, turned and spoke to Rajah, when the monster moved on at once into the deep, rich glow that was now penetrating the tunnel-like road, while the lesser elephant stayed for a few minutes to collect a good-sized bundle of twigs, and then moved after its fellow as contentedly as if everything were right.
"Nobody else knows?" "Oh, nobody!" Susan answered, her heart fluttering nervously at his tone, and her courage suddenly failing. "And Auntie will keep mum, of course," he said thoughtfully. "It would be so deuced awkward, Susan," he began. "Oh, I know it!" she said eagerly.
"This," he murmured, pausing at a shaded bend in the path, "must be Bench Number One. I am not to sit on that. This must be Bench Number Two. I am to sit on that. So here I am," he added nervously, seating himself and looking about him with the caution of a cat in a strange back yard. There was nobody in sight. Reassured, he ventured to drop one knee over the other and lean upon his walking stick.
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