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Then presently he would be seized with remorse and become over-gentle and attentive, placing the balls as I knocked them into the pockets, hurrying to render this service. I wished he would not do it. It distressed me that he should humble himself.

Dunlavey has done some foolish things, no doubt, and is doing a foolish thing in defying the law, but I don't anticipate that he will do anything quite so rash as to further antagonize the small owners." The puncher sat erect and laughed harshly. "You don't?" he inquired in an over-gentle, polite voice.

"It is in my mind that you have been a lazy cub," the warrior pronounced deliberate sentence, as he set down his goblet. "It is easily seen that Frode has been over-gentle with you. But you will pay now for your laziness, by receiving a cut each time I pass your guard. Stand forth, and show what your skill is worth. This sword will not be too heavy."

"Aye, your Excellency for maids and women are not as men; and facts not over-gentle may be best untold." "Nay not that not that: but there is time much time and for the present the care shall be to delight." "It is the office of a courtier, Eccellentissimo; it befools a scholar," the Historical Secretary exclaimed with indignation.

Samuel Gray, Jim's elder brother, was standing at the corner of Summer and Marlborough Streets when the two boys arrived at that point, and he explained the cause of the commotion by saying: "A party of citizens, not over-gentle in their ways, attempted to pass the sentinel near the barracks, and were received by him at the point of his bayonet.

When he went to school he would add a cap with a long vizor like a shovel-blade. Proudest of all was his waistcoat, saved for, begged for, plotted for; a real Fancy Vest of fawn with polka dots of a decayed red, the points astoundingly long. On the lower edge of it he wore a high-school button, a class button, and a fraternity pin. And none of it mattered. But he was not over-gentle.

Christina smiled sweetly, taking everything with over-gentle politeness, but looking as if all that interested her was, that there they were, talking about it. Provoked at last by her persistent lack of GENUINE reception, Ian was tempted to try her with something different: perhaps she might be moved to horror!

Christina smiled sweetly, taking everything with over-gentle politeness, but looking as if all that interested her was, that there they were, talking about it. Provoked at last by her persistent lack of GENUINE reception, Ian was tempted to try her with something different: perhaps she might be moved to horror!

"Gregory," he ended, calling me by my name, "somehow I never quite get you ... most of the time you are refined and almost over-gentle ... you know and love poetry and art and the worthwhile things ... but then there's also the hoodlum in you ... the dirty Hooligan " his eyes blazed with just rebuke.... I trod out silently, sick of myself, at heart ... as I have often, often been.