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"You're sure it is all right?" "Oh, positively it has been done in Europe." "I hope so. It must be a boy and an ATHERTON?" "Never fear." That was all. Who was it? The voices were unfamiliar to me, especially when repeated mechanically. Besides they may have been disguised. At any rate we had learned something. Some one was trying to control the sex of the expected Atherton heir.
Your son's conduct positively demanded that I should box his ears. So I did." "Of all the shameless " "I'm afraid you're becoming like him altogether impossible." "You first lure him on, and then oh, it is shameful!" "Have you finished what you came for?" "You are the most brazen " "Hush. Do be careful. Suppose my uncle were to hear you? If you've finished won't you go?" "Go?
Well, lock it up, and give your reasons to nobody." "That'll be easy," laughed Simmonds. "I haven't got any reasons." "Oh, yes, you have," and Godfrey bent upon him a gaze that was positively hypnotic. "You will do it because I want you to, and because I tell you that, sooner or later, if you keep this cabinet safe where no one can get at it, the man we want will walk into our hands.
He was supposed to be dead; but as there was no positive proof of his death, and his body could not be found, the law was compelled to yield to the clamor of public opinion. The case was brought before the assize court; and, in default of appearance, Gaston de Clameran was sentenced to several years of close confinement. As to Louis de Clameran, no one knew positively what had become of him.
He brushed a bead of perspiration from his face with the back of his hand. Unfortunately, he used the sooty hand, and the result was too much for Lord Emsworth's politeness. He burst into a series of pleased chuckles. "Your face, my dear Baxter! Your face! It is positively covered with soot positively! You must go and wash it. You are quite black.
"Madame," sobbed the old woman, who was crying, "she was dying of the plague, and how could I help it? They would have buried her in spite of me." "She was not dead; there was your mistake. She was as much alive as you or I at this moment." "Madame, I left her dead!" said the old woman positively.
Besides that, Colonel Burr appeared to me to assume, in the first instance, a tone unnecessarily peremptory and menacing, and, in the second, positively offensive. Yet I wished, as far as might be practicable, to leave a door open for accommodation.
A surgeon had examined the wound before Father Jerome left the army; and though he had not positively said that it would prove mortal, he had spoken so unfavourably of the case, as to make all those who heard him believe that it would be so.
"There's a pretty kettle o' fish!" exclaimed Ruby aloud. "So 'tis, lad; so 'tis," said Bremner, who at that moment had placed a superb pot of codlings on the fire; "though why ye should say it so positively when nobody's denyin' it, is more nor I can tell." Ruby laughed, and retired to the mortar-gallery to work at the forge and ponder.
It is positively amazing how you can turn every little incident into a sunbeam. And, mark you, it is quite as easy to take the other course. But what a coward a man is who releases in his home all the pent-up irritability and disappointment of the day. There is no sense in it, either. It does not make you less black of spirit to fill your home with gloom.
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