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I don't see why it should be my life that is always being upset and disorganized, while other women go on placidly having children and giving dinners!" "Perhaps because you are so different from other? women?" Sally suggested, somewhat timidly. She was not sure that Martie would like this.
When he perceived that Luck's eyes twinkled more and more while they watched him, and that Luck's smile was threatening to explode into laughter, Bently Brown shook his fist at the two of them, shrilled something about seeing his lawyer at once, and went out and slammed the door. "Lor-dee! He'd make a hit in comedy, that fellow," Luck observed placidly, and lighted the cigar he had been holding.
She drove back without her, and not for hours after was Mira strong enough to go. By that time he was sleeping placidly when, trembling still and pathetically pale, Mira was escorted to his bedside, and that night Mrs. Cranston had her revenge. "Agatha Loomis," said she, "you declared all along that he did perfectly right in marrying that that in marrying her. What do you say now?"
It happened when Ella came furiously into the Volsky flat, early one afternoon, and ignoring the little Lily, who sat placidly on Rose-Marie's lap hurried silently into her own room. Mrs.
Without a moment's pause he stopped and indulged in a prolonged fit of coughing, while the little congregation, which had been startled by the groan, attributed the noise to a premonitory symptom of the attack, and thought no more about it. "For mercy's sake, stop," muttered Manners. But the priest placidly resumed his discourse, and drowned Manners' voice by his own.
In the centre of the room she could discern a table with a chair close beside it, also a couple of tallow candles, which flickered in the draught caused no doubt by that open window which she could not see. All these little details impressed themselves on Marguerite's mind, as she stood there, placidly waiting until she should once more be told to move along.
In another minute the enemy's engine was puffing onward again in the wake of the fugitives, while the car was being pushed along in front of the tender. "That didn't work very well," said Andrews, placidly. "Let's try them again." Once more "The General" was reversed. This time the second car was uncoupled and sent flying back.
Grimy sailors came down out of the foretop placidly announcing themselves as "a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation and unostentatiously," etc.; the coal passers moved to their duties in the profound depths of the ship, explaining the blackness of their faces and their uncouthness of dress, with the reminder that they were "a handful of private citizens, traveling simply for recreation," etc., and when the cry rang through the vessel at midnight: "EIGHT BELLS! LARBOARD WATCH, TURN OUT!" the larboard watch came gaping and stretching out of their den, with the everlasting formula: "Aye-aye, sir!
She was more and more puzzled by the odd behaviour of the two. "I mean yesterday's message," corrected Jimmy. And he assumed an aggrieved air toward Aggie. "You villain," exclaimed Aggie. "I told you to 'phone her yesterday morning from the office." "Yes, I know," agreed Jimmy placidly, "but I forgot it and I just came over to explain."
He half meant it, having been seized with the notion that her type was what he needed to realize a cherished ideal, and he told this to Miss Snell, and enlarged upon it until he left her rooted in the conviction that he was hopelessly in love with Cora a fact she imparted to that young woman on her return from Julian's. Cora listened very placidly, and expressed no astonishment.
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