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"If you wanted it enough, you could get in," she said perversely, with an alluring coquetry in her mien. "The door was unfastened." "I did want to enough," he responded. A new light came into his eyes. He held out his hands toward her. "Get up off that cricket!" he commanded. "Come here!" Amelia rose with a swift, feminine motion, but she stepped backward, one hand upon her heart.
Rip's dark fingers halted their circular motion. "Dane," he warned, "don't you go talking against this venture. We got it soft and we're going to be credit-happy if it works out " But, perversely, Dane held to a gloomier view of the immediate future. "If," he repeated. "There's a galaxy of 'ifs' in this Sargol proposition.
I married him because I loved him, but I won't say that I didn't love him partly because I thought I saw a promise of that life in him." "You have dropped into your old mournful key." "But I am not going to be depressed," she cried perversely. "I began a new system by going to that dance, and I mean to stick to it. Clym can sing merrily; why should not I?" Wildeve looked thoughtfully at her.
I was unreasoning enough to feel slighted, although the task was one for which I felt a strong dislike. I fancied Vere liked the idea no better, from his expression. However, he offered no demur, but sat down at the table and began to flatten the warped pages that perversely sprang back and clung about his fingers.
He 'll never throw the great Mel off. Tom Cogglesby listened, and was really astonished at her ladyship's calm reception of his proposal. 'Shameful of him! shameful! he muttered perversely: for it would have made him desolate to have had to change his opinion of her ladyship after cherishing it, and consoling himself with it, five-and-twenty years.
It would appear also that he arrived here this afternoon with the avowed intention of remaining several days in our peaceful community why, though, I know not, unless it be that perversely he would inflict himself upon a young lady who conceivably cannot possibly be interested in his society or in the idle vapourings of his mind. Almost immediately this Mr. Pomeroy was ushered into our presence.
In short, there seemed to be no good quality about him which was not perversely associated with a drawback of some kind. He was one of those harmless and luckless men, possessed of excellent qualities, who fail nevertheless to achieve popularity in their social sphere.
It was humiliating, but I could bear it they only annoyed me now. At last they even bored me, and I accounted for my confusion perversely, I allow by the idea that Vereker had made a fool of me. The buried treasure was a bad joke, the general intention a monstrous pose.
Overland understood instantly that the lad was but following general instructions. He loved the boy, and so, perversely, worked upon his feelings. "Oh, the other side? Ex-cuse me, chief, for intrudin' on this here resavation. Sorry I'm crowdin' you so." "Now, Red, wait " "Wait?
An American scholar of wide range, at the same time thorough and unpretentious, is a rarity; a philologist who is neither perversely wrongheaded nor the victim of a preconceived theory is a still greater one; yet we find both characters pleasantly united in the author of these Lectures. Decided in his opinions, Mr.
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