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"Mad who said I was mad?" He bent over the book, muttering like a storm in retreat. "I guess I ain't missed so many that when one does get by me you should throw it in my teeth." She smoothed the top of his head with a placating hand and went back to her seat. Nibbling a ripe olive she watched him as he read. Her eyes were anxiously questioning. This too anger at so small a thing was unlike him.
"Well, I wanted to come, anyway," said Larry, with a placating grin. "I say, that is an awful nice dog!" "You never call foxhounds 'dogs'!" said Christian, still with hauteur; "Larry, you are an owl!" But she enjoyed the consciousness of knowing more than he did; she even forgave him his superfluousness.
He had been presiding over a proceeding that had something to do with the Mormons, in which he favored them. He was charged with placating their interests to win them to his political fortunes. "It was nothing of the sort," said Douglas. "I only did my duty. What have I to gain by favoring them? There are a great many more people who hate them than those who have any use for them.
It was Neuville who labored through the summer months of this year, first with Adams, then with De Onis, tempering the demands of the one and placating the pride of the other, but never allowing intercourse to drop. Adams was right, and both Neuville and De Onis knew it; the only way to settle outstanding differences was to cede these Spanish derelicts in the New World to the United States.
For the sake of placating Omnipotence let it be deemed a theft, and even a mean theft, entailing dire consequences on a weak old woman! Let it be as bad as the severest judge chose to make it! He would not complain. He knew that with all his sins he, possessed the virtues of good nature, kindness, and politeness. He was not wholly vile.
And this unexpected plan might meet with various objections from his wife if she dreamed of the extra cost it would be. As he seldom came to an open quarrel with Mrs. Maynard, he considered he was placating both wife and daughter by extending this generous sum of money for their pleasures.
Scarce had the door slammed when he heard. from below Rodney Hade's voice raised in the sharp question: "What does this mean? You've dared to ?" "What the blazes else could I do?" blustered Milo though under the bluster ran a thread of placating timidity. "He saved my life, didn't he? I was tackled by " "For one thing," suggested Hade. "you could have hit a little harder with the wrench.
These were the new sect of the Christians, and with burning Christians did Nero proceed to light up his gardens on one famous night, as a means of placating the populace whom he had offended, but who for the most part loved him for his misplaced generosity in the matter of "bread and sports."
"Miss Chiquita " he began, at which that young lady broke into another peal of silvery laughter and chattered to her servant. But her words, instead of placating the black woman, only added to her fury. She pointed with quivering hand to the path along the creek- bank and cried: "Go! Go quick, you man!" Then to her charge: "You bad, BAD! Go to the house."
Thus far had I read, Alicia and I sitting head to head on the hall stairs. In came Schmetz the gardener, raving, gesticulating, and after him old Uncle Adam, stepping delicately, and with a placating smile on his wrinkled countenance. "Those bulbs that I have planted under the windows of you," raved Schmetz, "the demon hens of le docteur Geddes are with their paws upturning!
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