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"Ah! my dear colleague," he declared, "it is absolutely necessary that this matter should be settled. I regard it as of supreme importance." "What are you speaking of?" inquired Fonsegue, much surprised. "Why, of Massot's article, which you won't insert." Thereupon, the director of the "Globe" plumply declared that he could not insert the article.
Another woman would have told Lucy plumply that she was a little fool; that in the first place young Grieve had never shown any signs of making love to her at all; and that, in the second, if he had, her father would never let her marry him without a struggle which nobody could suppose Lucy capable of waging with a man like Purcell.
She received them all with the same grave, simple dignity of manner, gratefully accepting their expressions of sympathy, and quietly turning aside the inconsiderate questions that would have probed too deeply and painfully. To an aged Friend, a preacher of the sect, who plumply asked her what course she intended to pursue towards her husband, she replied,
But the high hopes and ardour with which the young lovers had once come into court were now worn out by the postponement swindle, and the adverse events delay had brought on them. Alfred was not there: he was being examined in the schools; and had plumply refused to leave a tribunal that named its day and kept it for Westminster, until his counsel should have actually opened the case.
Then she said awkwardly: "What I wished to ask was whether you would marry him if you were I." Mary frowned. The responsibility was disconcerting. "Do you love him?" she asked plumply. "I did love him; I suppose I do still; yes, I do." She jerked out her answers in quick succession. "But our engagement is broken." "Because of this?" "Because he has been in jail.
When she had warmed Mother's feet and given them her wistful good wishes, the woman let them go, and the Smiths recently Applebys, went comfortably and plumply two more miles on their way to Japan.
He then sought to mitigate the effect of his demand by intimating, with much embarrassment of demeanour, that perhaps her Majesty would be satisfied with the possession of Calais for her own life-time, and as this was at once plumply refused by the suggestion of a pledge of it for the term of one year.
Noo, it happened that, twa or three days before this, my faither had dispatched an order to this house for a fresh supply o' guids, whan, to oor inexpressible amazement, we received, instead o' the guids, a letter plumply refusin ony further credit, an' demandin, under a threat o' immediate prosecution, payment o' oor current account amountin to aboot £150.
Notwithstanding all these changes, however, in the new-comer's appearance, I soon became quite convinced that he was no other than Lancaster; and, under this impression, I took an opportunity of edging towards him, and putting the question plumply to him, although under breath, for I did not care that the rest should hear it. "Your name, sir, is Lancaster, I think?" said I.
"Even so incredible as it sounds! You see this little barbarian is not so keenly alive to the magnificent honor of an alliance with the house of Kingsland as some others are, and she said No plumply when I asked her to be my wife." Again that harsh, jarring laugh rang out, and with the last word he strode from the room, closing the door with an emphatic bang.
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