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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Say, ain't you got ANY sense?" "What?" "Say, wouldn't you be just as happy if you had SOME sense?" "Ye-es." Penrod's answer, like the look he lifted to the impressive stranger, was meek and placative. "Rupe Collins is the principal at your school, guess." The other yelled with jeering laughter, and mocked Penrod's manner and voice.
Now, don't lose your temper; I didn't mean to offend you." The little man's voice was placative; his manner gravely ingratiating. Yet Sanderson divined that the other was inwardly laughing at him. Why? Sanderson did not know.
He drew a breath of relief, like that of a witness leaving the stand, and with another placative laugh, letting his eyes fall humbly under the steady scrutiny of his master, he concluded: "Of course I remember all about it, only at first I wasn't sure which one you meant; it's such a large company." "I see," said Potter grimly. "You engaged her to please your father." "Oh, Mr.
"Gary Warden hired us to cut the fence." The man's voice was a placative whine. His furtive eyes swept Lawler's face for signs of emotion. There were no signs. Lawler's face might have been an expressionless mask. Not a muscle of his body moved. The offense was a monstrous one in the ethics of the country, and the fence cutter had a right to expect Lawler to exhibit passion of some kind.
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