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He darted out, bumped down the sounding stairs and, while the doctor was still considering the words of his ultimatum, appeared again at the door, this time decorously on duty. "A call for you, sir," said Bubble primly. "A what?" "A call, sir. Mrs. Sykes wants to know if the new doctor will call 'round first thing in the morning to see Mrs. Sykes's Ann. She dunno, but she thinks it's smallpox."
'I shan't say what I think about her, said Anthea, primly, 'because it would be evil speaking, lying, and slandering. 'It's not lying to say she's a disagreeable pig, and a beastly blue-nosed Bozwoz, said Cyril, who had read The Eyes of Light, and intended to talk like Tony as soon as he could teach Robert to talk like Paul.
"I don't just mind whether there's a chance for thieves, but the Bible says drunkards and such-like stand no chance at all." "It's not for us to judge," said Jean primly, "but I have my opinion." Alan had been busily eating during this conversation, and now he joined in. "I say," he began, "I'm not worrying about what will become of Angus Niel after he's dead.
Her face flushed with annoyance and she arose, when she recognized her visitor. "You will please pardon me, but I do not care to receive you," she said primly. This beginning, natural enough from Helen's standpoint, after what her father had told her in Moran's office, convinced Dorothy that she had read the writing on the blotter correctly.
Even if I wished to, I'm afraid I shouldn't be able to resist an invitation to hear your Odyssey." "Delmonico's at eight?" "Thank you," she said primly. "You make me too happy. May I call for you?" "Please." She offered a hand whose touch he found cool, steady, and impersonal. "Good morning, Mr. Ember."
So the nine little girls and the ten little boys sat quite primly in the dining-room, while Theresa and her mother plied them with cake and lemonade, and also with ice-cream. This primness sat now quite strangely upon them. It was owing to the presence of Mrs.
Shep, the dog, came and planted himself at the very edge of the bare spot. Without giving her so much as a glance, he sat there primly and looked straight off the end of his nose at the sugar bowl in the middle. Not till this moment had Janet realized what a beautiful, intelligent-looking collie dog Mr. Brown had.
Hollis nor Aunt Melvy was to be found. Returning through the front hall, he opened the door to the parlor. The sight that met him was somewhat gruesome. Everything was carefully wrapped in newspapers. Pictures enveloped in newspapers hung on the walls, newspaper chairs stood primly around a newspaper table. In the dim twilight it looked like the very ghost of a room.
Tams enter ever so unexpectedly, Rachel was a fit spectacle for her, with a new work-basket by her side on the table, and her feet primly on a footstool, quite in the style of the late Mrs. Maldon, and a serious and sagacious look on her face that the fire and the gas combined to illuminate.
But Lily, entering the room a moment later, rather pale and unsmiling, found him facing the door, his manner easy, his head well up, and drawn to his full and rather overwhelming height. She found her poise entirely gone, and it was he who spoke first. "I know," he said. "You didn't ask me, but I came anyhow." She held out her hand rather primly. "It is very good of you to come." "Good!
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