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At the look on Brian's face, she stopped suddenly; but, when he started to speak, she put her hand quickly over his mouth, saying: "You were not to say a single word until I have finished. Play fair, Brian, dear; please!"
This was a pleasant surprise. I said I would take it. After I had given directions as to where it was to be shipped, the shopwoman said, appealingly: "If you please, do not let your courier know you bought it." This was an unexpected remark. I said: "What makes you think I have a courier?" "Ah, that is very simple; he told me himself." "He was very thoughtful.
"Sir, you are right, and I am very wrong to feel such a fancy as this: may God forgive me; and pray remember this fault on the scaffold, when you give me the absolution you promise, that this too may be pardoned me." Then she turned to the executioner and said, "Please sit where you were before, that I may see M. Desgrais." The man hesitated, but on a sign from the doctor obeyed.
You got my note!" "And tore it to fragments an hour since! I don't remember a word of it!" "But I meant it!" "You didn't!" "Let me go, please; I ought not to be here; I don't want to stay here." "You must stay until but you're trembling!" He dropped her hand and stood back contritely. "Have I scared you?" "Yes.... I don't know.... Good night." She turned, but didn't go.
There was a certain refinement in it, a quality of dialogue which indicated thought, as I judged; and I became more and more certain that, whatever I might have to think of it when told, he would yet tell me the truth. "Come, try me," I said. "I will, sir. But I must begin at the beginning." "Begin where you like. I have nothing more to do to-night, and you may take what time you please.
For he could never lower his ideals to please or propitiate. He was working for no immediate and transitory effects. He could use no arts that entangled, dazzled, or frightened; nothing but truth, and truth cautiously discriminated.
It is all right for men to be clever when they are old or even middle-aged, then allowances are made for them and they may be as odd as they please. But if any one happens to be clever when he is at Oxford, he will have to watch himself closely or he will be called either a genius or a lunatic, and the one is almost as fatal as the other. In a college as large as St.
"But doesn't Emily Warren know?" "She knows I wanted to see you." "Please let me do something or get thee something." "No; just leave me to myself a little while, and I'll be all right. Go at once, that's a good fellow." "Oh, Richard, thee shouldn't have come down.
At this Dora jerked her head backward, with a laugh that rang so charmingly false and so virulent that I was impelled both to slap her face and to kiss it "But tell me," she said, with a sudden affectation of sedate curiosity, "was she really so beautiful?" "I never said she was 'so beautiful, did I? You are far more beautiful than she." "Oh, stop joking, please! Can't you answer seriously?"
"That's just what we expect to do, Bumpus," replied the scout-master, firmly. "You may pull the boat up further, and follow after us; or if you prefer staying by the boat, you can do that, just as you please. Ready, Bob?" "Yes, suh, and more than anxious to be on the move," answered the Southern boy.
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