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"Do that and you will regret it to the last day of your life!" she flared. "If you'd be as careful with the name of Keith as I am, it would not suffer!" "What do you mean by that?" he asked? after a blank pause. She had not intended to use that weapon, but now she persisted placidly. "I mean that if our name has been talked about, it has not been because of any action of mine."
"I'm right now," said Morgan placidly, "quite as rich as I want to be. I've another ambition but let's not go into that. I want to show you what Talents, Incorporated can do in the four days " he looked at his watch "three hours and some odd minutes that remain before the Mekinese fleet turns up. You've checked up on Talents, Incorporated?"
It was the hour when even those whose business it is to attend to the wants of others have a moment or two for themselves. In the housekeeper's room Audrey Stevens, the pretty parlour-maid, re-trimmed her best hat, and talked idly to her aunt, the cook-housekeeper of Mr. Mark Ablett's bachelor home. "For Joe?" said Mrs. Stevens placidly, her eye on the hat. Audrey nodded.
Now that he knew his child was happy, he felt that he would be content simply to sit placidly in an obscure corner of the market-place in Leipsic, and watch the ebb and flow of life as it is lived over there in the beloved Fatherland.
Then he shut his teeth sharply and looked out of the window with a frown, thinking of the renewed battle of wills to come, and at last said he would go and find Mr. Masters, since no one appeared to have told him of Nevil's arrival. He went straight down the corridor to Peter Masters' room. The owner was still seated as he had left him, smoking placidly.
We kept the scheme quiet until the route of the new railroad should be decided, and when we came before the Committee of the House, the whole thing had been given away, and the Wachusett men had even secured the chairman, Tom Greenfield. He lives in Fentonville himself, and we had counted him at least as sure." "That must have been the thing," placidly observed Miss Penwick to Rangely, "that Mr.
"They wouldn't agree because they couldn't agree," continued Brother Rabbit, "and finally they slunk off to their homes one at a time. So I didn't have to make any rain at all." "But you couldn't have made it rain," said Sweetest Susan placidly. "I didn't say I could," replied Mr. Rabbit. "I told them I would make the rain if they would agree among themselves."
"You must wear the gown they are going to give you at Oxford," said the Picture, smiling placidly. "The one Aunt Lucy was telling me about. Why do they give you a gown?" she asked. "It seems such an odd thing to do." "The gown comes with the degree, I believe," said Stuart. "But why do they give you a degree?" persisted the Picture; "you never studied at Oxford, did you?"
Whipp had retreated violently from the front window when she saw the closed car drive up, and now she was standing, at bay as it were, with eyes fixed on the doorway through which her employer would bring the stranger. Pearl was placidly purring in the last rays of the sinking sun, her milk-white paws tucked under her soft breast, the only unexcited member of the family. Mrs.
Luck scratched a match on a stone that lay beside him, lighted the Indian's cigarette and then his own, took four puffs and blew the smoke upward, watching it spread and drift away, and made the gesture that meant "Our pow-wow will be good," as he had seen the Sioux medicine men do before a council. Afterwards he began placidly to smoke and meditate.
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