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Garland stretched out his hand, and inquired how Mr. Swiveller felt; adding "And what can we do for you?" "If you could make the Marchioness yonder, a Marchioness in real, sober earnest," returned Dick, "I'd thank you to get it done offhand. But as you can't, the question is, what is it best to do for Kit?" Gathering around Mr.
And then, having lured him into this tangled side issue, she began, as cool and offhand as you please. He gave her the opening when he asked her what she'd like to do next. "This is good enough for me," she said. For the most marvelous thing about Shakespeare's England was that you could walk about in it free of charge. He looked at her almost as if he knew what she was up to.
I'll have your things laid out so you can jump right into them when you come in." She looked down at the baby so as not to meet his eye, but the offhand assumption of his readiness to go seemed to her to be encouraging. "With that child?" was the astonished exclamation.
Immediately he was afraid that every one was watching him. Ray Cowles bawled to them, as he passed in the waltz, "Watch out for that Carl, Gert. He's a regular badix." Carl's scalp tickled, but he tried to be very offhand in remarking: "You must have gotten that dress in New York, didn't you? Why haven't you ever told me about New York? You've hardly told me anything at all." "Well, I like that!
The worst of them all, the Mott Street Barracks, were taken into court by the owner; but all the judges and juries in the land had no power to put them back when it was decided upon a technicality that they should not have been destroyed offhand. It was a case of "They can't put you in jail for that." "Yes, but I am in jail."
Now my eyesight's strong enough to see through a two-foot hole after the plug's out, and I can see that you and 'Bije's children won't shed tears if I say no to that will. No offense meant, you know; just common sense, that's all." This was plain speaking. Mr. Graves colored, though he didn't mean to, and for once could not answer offhand.
What is temperance? What is courage? What is the character fit for a citizen? and other ethical points, involving practical human relationships. These questions were discussed by Socrates in a striking manner, and by a method peculiarly his own. "Professing ignorance, he put perhaps this question: What is law? It was familiar, and was answered offhand.
Needless to say, I was most disagreeably impressed by Walter Hornby's conduct, and not a little disposed to blame my fair companion for giving an ear to his secret disparagement of his cousin; but I was obviously not in a position to pronounce, offhand, upon the merits of the case.
Then a Master had to pronounce whether the action should be treated offhand, or whether he would listen to what they had to say about it. He decided to listen to what was to be said. Then each side claimed to see the other's documents, 'discovery' they called it, as if the documents were concealed, and they had to hunt for them stealthily with lanterns.
He was thinking of retiring, he said, and gradually drawing in his business. This offhand and lordly, to hide the patent diminution of his trade. "Hi-hi!" said the old Provost, with a cruel laugh, when he heard of Gourlay's remark "drawing in his business, ay! It's like Lang Jean Lingleton's waist, I'm thinking. It's thin eneugh drawn a'readys!"
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