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Updated: June 14, 2025
And in her sitting-room she found more apes, or what seemed to her in her present mood more, for there was Mrs. Arbuthnot placidly drinking coffee, while at the writing-table, the writing-table she already looked upon as sacred, using her pen, her own pen brought for her hand alone from Prince of Wales Terrace, sat Mrs. Wilkins writing; at the table; in her room; with her pen.
'You may do better next time, he said placidly: 'I think you will. But I would advise you to confine yourself to domestic scenes. 'Thank you. But never again! 'Well, you may be right. That a young woman has taken to writing is not by any means the best thing to hear about her. 'What is the best? 'I prefer not to say. 'Do you know? Then, do tell me, please. Elfride hesitated.
I confess he did not make a bad reply, of its kind. 'You're like a youngster playing truant that he may gain knowledge. What do you think of it?" "A smart piece of City-speech," was Arabella's remark: Cornelia placidly observing, "Vulgarity never contains more than a minimum of the truth." "I said," Adela went on, "Think as you will, papa, we know we are right. He looked really angry.
He looked at her placidly. "Why not?" "You are supporting her?" "If you wish to put it that way," said he carelessly. "My money pays the bills all the bills." "Fred!" "Yes? What is it? Why are you so agitated?" He studied her face, then rose, took a final pull at the cigarette, tossed it in the fire. "I must be going," he said, in a cool, even voice. She started up in a panic. "Fred!
"Yes if" her lip quivered "if you'll let me." "There can be no question of that," said he with the same polite gravity he had maintained throughout. "You want me to leave you alone?" "Please. I need sleep badly and I've only three hours." "You are angry with me?" He looked placidly into her lovely, swimming eyes. "Not in the least." "But how can you help being? I acted dreadfully."
It was thoroughly sacked; every portable article of value, linen, plate, money, furniture, was carried off, the pictures and objects of art destroyed, the house gutted from top to bottom. A thousand spectators were looking on placidly at the work of destruction as they returned from church, many of them with Bible and Psalm-book in their hands.
The bitterest sting lay in the assurance thus placidly given her, that her loving little Richard would be consigned to the keeping of a woman whom she knew to hate her fiercely that he would be taught to hate and despise her himself. He would be brought up as a stranger to her; he would be led to associate her name with scorn and disgrace.
The door of the house is open, and an elderly woman is looking out; but she is not placidly contemplating the evening sunshine; she has been watching with dim eyes the gradually enlarging speck which for the last few minutes she has been quite sure is her darling son Adam. Lisbeth Bede loves her son with the love of a woman to whom her first-born has come late in life.
"Railway guide, William," he ordered sharply. "Yep." "And call up the station agent. Have him wire for a lower berth on the Lehigh to-night." William Irons waited. "Go on, go on," called the politician, crossly, glancing up from his time-table. "Have you foundered halfway?" "Nope. You didn't say where to." "New York, New York." "Yep," said William, placidly. "What train?"
Weary grinned answer and pulled his rifle from the "boot" where it was slung under his right leg, and jerked the lever forward until a cartridge slid with a click up into the chamber; let the hammer gently down with his thumb and laid the gun across his thighs. "She's ready for bear," he observed placidly.
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