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The others were more amusing. The spectacle of the faces wilting into maudlin abstractions under the caress of the music brought a grin to him. The sounds had drugged the polite little masks and left them poised morosely in a sleepy dream. The lavender stocking crept tenderly into evidence. The owlish glasses focused with noncommittal stoicism in its direction.
"Ann," said Bess, with a great solemnity in the dark eyes that she raised to mine, "I suppose I ought to marry Owen this June. I want to have another winter of good times, but I I'm ashamed to look this hen in the face." "Owen is perfectly lovely," I answered her, which was a very safely noncommittal answer in the circumstances.
Miss Eliza was noncommittal, though it was very evident that she found much to displease. When Arethusa tried on the Green Frock which she so dearly loved, she openly expressed her displeasure. "Did your stepmother," and if ever her rigid little body had signified disapproval of anything it did then, in every line, "did your stepmother permit you to go around dressed like that?"
Dickinson and Scherer have been talking it down. How about it, Tom?" But Tom, in these debates, was inclined to be noncommittal, although it was clear they troubled him. "Oh, don't ask me, Hughie," he said. "I suppose I ought to cultivate the scientific point of view, and look with impartial interest at this industrial cannibalism," returned Perry, sarcastically.
This time she heard at once, and coming quickly to the door, admitted me, with a cordial smile and a hearty grasp of the hand that reminded me of her son, and was totally unlike the clammy and noncommittal touch of so many of the country folk, bred evidently of their general habit of caution. "You are Mrs. Evan, the Doctor's daughter.
"Now I think on 't, I think I hearn 'em tell that dat ar road was all fenced up and down by der creek, and thar, an't it, Andy?" Andy wasn't certain; he'd only "hearn tell" about that road, but never been over it. In short, he was strictly noncommittal.
For the feel of the bite of the gut-lash was strong upon him. "B'jo'! B'jo'! Nitchi!" greeted LeFroy, smiling into the scowling face. "B'jo'!" grunted the younger man with evident lack of enthusiasm. "Kah MacNair?" The Indian returned a noncommittal shrug. LeFroy repeated his question, at the same time taking from his pocket a cheap clasp-knife which he extended toward the Indian.
Larpent, returning, wondered what his patron had been saying to make the boy's eyes wet with tears, but betrayed no curiosity on the subject. "Are you going to let him stay in here?" he asked, as he bound a lotion-soaked pad over the damaged eye. "For the present," said Saltash. "Any objection?" "Not the smallest." Larpent's tone was absolutely noncommittal. "Make him lie quiet, that's all!"
Was this the son she had nursed at her bosom not so very long before? Surely he was developing rapidly. "Well, Frank, I hope you can do that often," she said. "I hope so, too, ma," was his rather noncommittal reply.
You will have hard work to settle it down into hard-and-fast noncommittal lines." Peter looked at the girl steadily. "Have you specialized on my mouth?" he asked. "Huh-umph!" said Linda, shaking her head vigorously. "When I specialize I use a pin and a microscope and go right to the root of matters as I was taught. This is superficial. I am extemporizing now."
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