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I suppose cities must suit some folks, or they wouldn't keep on livin' in 'em; but cities sure don't suit me. I allus had a kind of an idea from what Slocum had told me that I'd enjoy the bankin' business, so I applied to the banks first. They're a blame offish set, bankers. They didn't laugh at me, leastwise not until after I'd gone out, but they didn't offer much encouragement.
If poor Bradford had desired to be stiff and uninterestingly didactic, he could not have succeeded better. "Ah, yes Rockcliffe Sylvia was there for a couple of years, and will doubtless be glad to hear of the place. I myself never approved of college life for girls, it makes them so superior and offish when they return to society.
"That fellow asleep on the wagon-seat? Lots of good he is as an escort," laughed Pratt. "But I don't really need you," said the girl, weakly. "Oh! don't be so offish!" cried the young man, more seriously. "Don't you suppose I'd be glad of the chance to ride with you for a way?" "But your friends " "You're a friend of mine," said Pratt, seriously. "I don't like the look of that Ratty M'Gill.
Mayer, always to Ned Murphy, an engaging topic. Crowder went away not much the wiser. Mayer, if a little offish, was as satisfactory a guest as any hotel could ask for paid his bill weekly, always in gold, gave no trouble, and lived pretty quiet and retired, only now and then going to the country on business.
"I shouldn't want to try," observed Nancy, quietly. "Well! if you didn't act so offish we girls would like to be friends with you," said Cora, tucking her arm into Nancy's. "Going skating this afternoon?" This was the first time any girl at Pinewood Hall had ever walked in a "chummy" manner with Nancy.
I was a little distant with these parties, at first, because when I have been visiting Emperors I do not like to be too familiar with people I only know by reputation, and whose moral characters and standing in society I can not be thoroughly acquainted with. I judged it best to be a little offish, at first.
You see, when a woman's been useter seein' her husband only 'twixt v'y'ges for forty year, I 'spect 'tis something of a cross to have him litterin' up the house ev'ry day," he confessed. "But as I can't leave the shop myself to go visitin' much in return, Joab acks offish. We Silts was always bred to be hospitable. Poor or rich, we could share what we had with another.
She was well liked by her associates in spite of the fact that she was a bit offish and vanished from their world the minute the curtain fell." "A clever governess out of a job, satisfying a craving for excitement and playing the mysterious rôle as part of the adventure. Am I to assume that you've burned your play and that the incident is closed?"
She let him do as he liked, although in the street she was offish enough to other men, refusing their familiarities partly from decorum and partly for contempt for their commonness. She now stood audaciously in front of the chevalier, who, having fathomed in his day many other mysteries in minds that were far more wily, took in the situation at a single glance.
He would tolerate the presence of other members of the household, but when strangers appeared he was decidedly offish, and scolded until they disappeared. Three times a day Toby is decidedly funny, and goes through a comical performance. In his master's study there is a contrivance which, on a small scale, resembles the old New England well-pole.
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