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"I prefer it," said Putnam, placably. "I'm old-fashioned myself; and the things keep together." "And vanish together, as you see," she retorted. "Well, if you are not going to bother about the burglar, I shouldn't bother about the lunch. It's Sunday, and we can't send for vinegar and all that in the town; and you Indian gentlemen can't enjoy what you call a dinner without a lot of hot things.
'He has had such bad nights! said Ethel. 'Don't be hard on Tom, he is very good about such things, and would not have done it without need. He is so careful of Aubrey! 'Too careful by half, said the Doctor, smiling placably as his son returned. 'You are all in a league to spoil that youngster. He would be better if you would not try your hand on his ailments, but would knock him about.
'Your servant, Mrs. Loveday, he said, 'and I will tell you at once what I come for. You will say that I take time by the forelock when I inform you that it is to push on my long-wished-for alliance wi' your daughter, as I believe she is now a free woman again. 'Thank you, Mr. Derriman, said the mother placably. 'But she is ill at present. I'll mention it to her when she is better.
"You must have put them there yourself." He remembered. "Well," he said, placably, for he was, after all, a just man, "do you think they could be made a little cleaner?" "I can't " said Aggie, in a still stranger voice, a voice that sounded as if it were deflected somehow by her bent body and came from another woman rather far away. It made Arthur turn in the doorway and look at her.
"Ay, Master Weston's letter was somewhat hard to bear, albeit we should excuse much to his ignorance of our surroundings," said Bradford placably, although the color rose to his cheek at thought of the injustice he and his friends had suffered.
By this time, however, the ladies had pressed forward, curious to know what could have brought the solitary linen-weaver there under such strange circumstances, and interested in the pretty child, who, half alarmed and half attracted by the brightness and the numerous company, now frowned and hid her face, now lifted up her head again and looked round placably, until a touch or a coaxing word brought back the frown, and made her bury her face with new determination.
"As to that," he said placably, "I can assure you that the gold-digging has been purely an investment on my part." "But an investment which you should not have made," insisted the president judicially. "If it had not tempted you to the breach of trust, it was still inexpedient most undeniably inexpedient.
"I am a Knight of the most Illustrious Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and an Italian Cavalier of Degree. You " "I am a Spy," I cried out half-sobbing. "What was I to do? My Malignant Fate hath ever been against me. I am despicable in your Eyes, but not so despicable as I am in mine own." "There, there," he cries out, very placably.
As if every inteligent Frenchman didn't know that Alsace-Lorraine is a sentimental stunt. No. I'm not pro-German. I simply see things as they are." "I think," Frances would say placably, "we'd better not talk about the War." He would remind them that it was not his subject. And John laughed at him. "Poor old Nick hates the War because it's dished him.
And loading himself with his breastplate, steel cap, matchlock, and bullet pouch, he strode obstinately away to the boat, lying some three or four hundred yards distant, waiting for the tide to float her. Standish watched him disapprovingly, and, turning to Carver, he inquired significantly, "What saith our governor?" "Let each man do as seemeth good to himself," replied Carver placably.