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Si paced up. His gun was loaded, and he could have easily brought the rebel down. But the rebel's devotion to his partner touched him. "Don't shoot, boys," he commanded; "leave me to 'tend to him. Say, Johnny," he addressed the rebel, in a placatory way, "don't make a fool o' yourself. Come down, we've got you, dead. Drop that gun." "Go to brimstone blazes," shouted the rebel.
He was exhausted, and trembling with an awful terror, and he gasped out abject, placatory ejaculations and suddenly collapsed into a sobbing mass on the floor. Smithers emerged from the Tube with a look of unpleasant satisfaction on his face. "I chased off the Ragged Men with sneeze gas," he observed with a vast calmness. "They ain't comin' back for a while.
She stood in the doorway, evidently placatory and sympathetic, and behind her stood Mrs Nixon, in a condition of great mental turmoil. "I think you'd better come and have your tea," said Maggie firmly, and yet gently.
Lidgerwood made the guess without offering to shake hands, the high, box-like desk forbidding the attempt. "Yes." The answer was neither antagonistic nor placatory; it was merely colorless. "My name is Lidgerwood. You have heard of my appointment?" Again the colorless "Yes." Lidgerwood saw no good end to be subserved by postponing the inevitable. "Mr. Ford spoke to me about you last night.
He tapped more loudly, as the hatred of being in a hurry took possession of him. Eve looked round with a delightful placatory smile which conjured an answering smile into the face of her husband. He tried to be irritated after smiling, and advancing said in a would-be fierce tone: "If this lunch lasts much longer I shall barely have time to dress for dinner."
Even the placatory vigil is held perilous, except in company, and a boy was pointed out to me in Rotoava, because he had watched alone by his own father. Not the ties of the dead, nor yet their proved character, affect the issue.
"Your pardon, Albert." She looked down at me with such a placatory and genuinely feminine smile I decided I'd been foolish to be offended. She's a nut of course, I thought indulgently, someone whose life is bounded by theories and testtubes, a woman with no conception of practical reality. Instead of being affronted it would be better to show her patiently how essential my help was to her.
The authors of the essay, though they deny the possibility of finding a single explicative principle chosen arbitrarily, themselves announce a principle, which, however, amounts simply to the statement that sacrifice is placatory.
So, smothering my own resentment, less perhaps at the tone of offensive insinuation against myself than at the arrogance with which this prejudiced intermeddler implied to a mother the necessity of his guardian watch over a child under her own care, I sketched a reply which seemed to me both dignified and placatory, abstaining from all discussion, and conveying the assurance that Mrs.
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