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Travers, much to his own surprise, failed to discover Fan's lost friends. One thing he had done was to send a clerk to the office of the paper with the singular title to ask for Mr. Chance's address. The answer he received from a not over-polite gentleman he met there was, "We don't know nothing about Mr. Merton Chance in this horfice, and don't want to, nether." Mr.
He was evidently delighted to find himself at Beechcote, and it might have been divined that there was a spice of malice in his pleasure. The Vavasours had always snubbed him; Miss Mallory herself had not been over-polite to him on one or two occasions; but her cousin was a "stunner," and, secure in Fanny's exuberant favor, he made himself quite at home.
At a certain farm we offered a sovereign for one bucket of meal, but all in vain; when we asked the woman for a glass of water, she pointed us to a spring some distance off. Shameful, is it not! Next time we shall, I am afraid, not be so over-polite. One learns a lot every day. "At 11 A.M. our scouts reported that they had sighted two columns about 7 miles from us.
After one or two attempts, he lowered down the steps, and contrived to bump her on the first, from the first he purchased her on the second, and from the second he at last seated her at the door of the carriage. Jack had no time to be over-polite.
"Well, Mary," observed Emma, after a pause of a few seconds, during which they watched the receding form of the hunter, "the old gentleman is not over-polite. Suppose we go back and narrate our first adventure?" "Let us walk up to where Alfred and Martin Super are at work, and tell them," replied Mary.
He'd been to see her this afternoon and left a card! And the note he'd written after his second visit was what Howard West might have written, or any other quite casual, slightly over-polite acquaintance. And it was from Rodney to her! She couldn't see him if he felt like that; couldn't stand it to see him if he felt like that!
"You may report to Jasper that my only terms are unconditional submission." "I will do so, madam; but you know, as well as I, what his answer will be. His nature is too manly to submit to tyranny, even from his step-mother." "You are not over-polite, sir," said Mrs. Kent, angrily. "I am truthful, madam," was the grave reply. "Without exception, Jasper," said Mr.
My point is not that, nor is it what we or any other neutral nation has done or may do Holland or any other. This war is the direct result of the over-polite, diplomatic, standing-aloof, bowing-to-one-another in gold lace, which all European nations are guilty of in times of peace castes and classes and uniforms and orders and such folderol, instead of the proper business of the day.
So he stiffly brazened it out. "Ay!" he said. "I never heard of such a thing!" she exploded, but still whispering. "You said as I must help ye, and I'm helping ye," said he. "But I didn't mean that you were to go chattering about me all over Bursley, uncle," she protested, adopting now the pained, haughty, and over-polite attitude.
Wishful to learn something of the past glories of the town, I enquired at the municipality for the public library, but was informed by the supercilious and not over-polite secretary that this proud city possesses no such institution. A certain priest, he added, would give me all the desired information. Canonico Rizzo was a delightful old man, with snowy hair and candid blue eyes.
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