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Blenkinsop, the childless widow of a Common Councilman of London, one morning met the Twins in the village. They greeted her politely and made to escape. But she was in the mood, her most constant mood, to babble. She stopped them, and with a knowing air, and even more offensive smile, said: "So, young people, we're going to hear the sound of wedding bells very soon in Little Deeping, are we?"
"Never fear, little one!" Calendar's laugh was nervously cheerful. "The Lord knows you're welcome." "Thank you 'most to death," responded Kirkwood politely. "Good-by and good-by to you, Stryker. 'Glad to have humored your desire to meet me soon again."
His hand slipped to the side pocket of his sack coat, and then back again, and he made a remark in an undertone that I fear was not intended for a pleasant greeting. "There's a little dinner of a few friends going on up stairs," I said politely. "Won't you join us?" Meeker scowled a moment with evident surprise. "No, I won't," he growled.
The way they managed to keep up steam was delightfully primitive. We did not, indeed, fly along the rails, yet we very often went at the rate of nine miles an hour! When our supply of wood got exhausted, we would just stop the train, or the train would stop itself, and the passengers were politely requested to get out and take a hand at cutting down trees and carrying wood.
Chekalinsky paused after each throw, in order to give the players time to arrange their cards and note down their losses, listened politely to their requests, and more politely still, straightened the corners of cards that some player's hand had chanced to bend. At last the game was finished. Chekalinsky shuffled the cards, and prepared to deal again.
As he was about to cross the drive, a figure stepped from the shadow of the porte-cochère a man in a rough tweed suit, who lifted his wide-awake politely and asked Jack if he was not English. "American," said Jack, guardedly. The man was apparently much relieved.
She held out her hand to him, politely, and he, compensating for an imperceptible hesitation with a kind of clumsy haste, took it and released it almost as hastily. She showed him where to hang his coat and hat, conducted him into her sitting-room and invited him to sit down. And there they were. And he was Rodney, and she was Rose! It was like an absurd dream.
"Good-by, Mr. Vernon!" he said politely. "I see you are leaving the hotel." "Good-by!" muttered Campbell. "I hope you'll excuse my cousin for not seeing you?" "I don't think she's the one I supposed," said Campbell. "It's of no consequence." Ben hastened to inform Miss Sinclair of her guardian's departure. "Now the field is clear," said Ida, breathing a sigh of relief.
To this Captain Murray politely acceded, and he produced some laughable instances in support of the assertion, which gave the conversation a new turn. O'Mooney felt extremely obliged to the captain for this, especially as he saw, by his countenance, that he also had suspicions of the truth.
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