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He scratched his head perplexedly as he stepped back from the wheel. "Hey, wait!" he addressed the doctor as he started a second time. He fumbled in an inner pocket of his rough coat. "I was forgetting, Miss Felicia, a matter of a letter for you I found in Marthy's things she sent it off at you this long time ago but it came back at her "
The old man nodded, he felt too ashamed to speak; he sat with his fine silver head in his hands, while Felix took down and tuned the old violin, on which so many godless lilts had been played in many a wild revel. Mr. Leonard felt that he had failed his religion. He could not give Naomi the help that was in it for her. Felix drew the bow softly, perplexedly over the strings.
Miller's clear voice did not falter nor did his gaze, and Mitchell, handcuffs in evidence, looked perplexedly at Chief Connor. The latter was watching Miller like a lynx, and the Secret Service operatives closed up in the entranceway there was no chance to escape, handcuffs seemed unnecessary. The smile that crossed Heinrich's lips was cruel. "We will swing together, von Mueller," he said.
But as Cleghorn turned up the narrow steps, Webb muttered perplexedly, "To funk at this point and for a tea! The man is touched or in love." Webb with Mayhew's dispassionate aid made a considerable haul below the second stone, though in truth there was nothing there to compare with the first lot.
I hoped and prayed it would not occur to John also. I glanced sideways at him. He was frowning perplexedly, and I drew a deep breath of relief, for the terrible thought that had flashed across my mind was this: that Dr. Bauerstein might have had an accomplice. Yet surely it could not be! Surely no woman as beautiful as Mary Cavendish could be a murderess.
"Oh, please!" begged Eve, with a little vexed laugh. "What?" he asked, perplexedly. "Don't talk of yourself as though you were were just nothing, and of me as though I were a princess. It's absurd! I'm only a very ordinary sort of person with ordinary faults perhaps more than my share of them." "You're the finest woman I ever saw, and the loveliest," replied Wade stoutly.
I looked appealingly to him; the satellite stared down the river perplexedly, but suddenly his eye fell upon something that absorbed it; and he turned like a madman to "By! sir, you are lying to me. There is the South America moored to a barge, and her steam is not up!" "Those words are utterly uncalled for," said the agent, "but you cannot irritate me, my dear sir!
It followed, from all the social principles known to Mrs. and Miss Pankhurst, that it was necessary to provide for an enormous number of War Babies. Subscriptions were invited. Statisticians are still looking rather perplexedly for those War Babies; the illegitimate birth-rate has fallen, and what has become of the subscriptions I do not know.
"Uncle Dan," Pauline had asked, one day, after an hour spent in Kenwick's society, "what is the reason Mr. Kenwick makes so little impression?" "Because he doesn't tally," May put in. "Well," said Uncle Dan, scowling perplexedly; "I don't quite make him out.
"Your Majesty," he said, "'twas but a thoughtless jest, too idle to be believed or repeated. Will Your Majesty not deign to remember that St. Aulaire's life and sword have been ever at Your Majesty's service?" As the prostrate nobleman began to speak, the King hesitated, turned back, and looked perplexedly at him.
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