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She used to take this all very well, for she was a great admirer of Tom's, and always spoke his praise. But Tom didn't make much headway with Kitty. It wasn't often that he could saa her, and when he did; she was mighty offish, and was sure to have the owld woman present, like a dumb-waiter, to be sure.
Riggs; and Cora, who was poor, was allowed to be Linda's roommate without extra charge. "You mean that you want to run with that Nan Sherwood and Bess Harley crew!" exclaimed Linda. "I want to get into some of the fun. And so do you, Linda! Don't act offish," and Cora walked toward the open door to meet the new arrivals. It was a terrible shock to the railroad magnate's daughter this.
He might have gone on all the evening coming back to her and begging the favor had Ruth not insisted upon his devoting himself to some of his sisters' friends. But, at the same time, Ruth was somewhat piqued because Tom Cameron did not come near her all the first part of the evening. She could not understand what the matter really was with him why he acted in so offish a manner.
"Monsieur, have I not told you many times? I cannot marry. I have a family already." The young agent struck his cap impatiently against the bark weather-boarding. "You are the most offish girl I ever saw. A man cannot get near enough to you to talk reason." "It would be better if you did not come down here at all, Monsieur Crooks," said Jenieve.
You must wait till the screening evergreens grow before Oh, you audacious I haven't promised anything." "I promise everything. I'm engaged, and only taking my retaining- fees." "Mother," cried Farmer Banning at the dining-room window, "just look yonder!" "And do you mean to say, John Banning, that you didn't expect it?" "Why, Sue was growing more and more offish." "Of course! Don't you remember?"
"Guess I'll try him on t'other side, seein' he's so offish." Then aloud, "Knowed Square Lee, I b'lieve?" "Yes," thundered Greenleaf, looking furiously at the questioner. The glance frightened Jehu's soul from the red-curtained windows, where it had been peeping out, back to its hiding-place, wherever that might be.
And Josiah had been fearfully exercised on it. And this plan of mine succeeded. He got eloquent on it, and I kinder held off, and talked offish, and let him convince me. I did it from principle. A few days after this, Josiah Allen came in, and sez he, "The Everlastin' spring is the one for me, Samantha! I believe it will keep me alive for hundreds and hundreds of years."
Living in the latter is likely to be less expensive, and local life may have more of a distinctive character; but the husk of the past is almost certain to be evident in the mixture of old and modern houses and in a certain offish separation of the native and incoming elements.
Despite herself, Polly's lips twitched; in some ways he WAS unspeakable. "They've nicknamed him that because of his trying to help me, and then leaving?" she asked. "Oh, not entirely. There's other things. He's a nahsty, stand- offish way with him, you know. Don't-want-to-know-yeh trick. Wouldn't-speak-to-yeh-if-I-could-help-it twist to his face.
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.
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