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"Oh, we heard of her through Adelaide Painter ;" and in reply to his glance of interrogation she explained that the lady in question was a spinster of South Braintree, Massachusetts, who, having come to Paris some thirty years earlier, to nurse a brother through an illness, had ever since protestingly and provisionally camped there in a state of contemptuous protestation oddly manifested by her never taking the slip-covers off her drawing-room chairs.
I'm definitely, finally, unalterably a scientific man. I've got that for good. That's thanks to you too." "How could your stupid old mother do that?" she murmured protestingly. "You're not stupid," he said, and bending down he kissed her head where it lay on his shoulder. "Whatever good there is in me I've got from you. You gave me my brain.
At the sight of the figure bounding toward her she uttered a little cry and put out her hands protestingly, calling out to him at the same time. I could not catch the words she uttered, and if I could have done so it is very improbable that I should have understood them, but it struck me that they conveyed either a warning or an appeal.
Here David leaned over toward Aunt Polly and said, protestingly, "Don't gi' me but jest a teasp'nful o' that ice cream. I'm so full now 't I can't hardly reach the table." He took a taste of the cream and resumed: "I can't give it jest as Dick did," he went on, "but this is about the gist on't.
She will always do the right thing in the right way, and always be a lady." Bond withdrew his hand. "Oh, come, I say," he began protestingly. Abner ignored this. "How about the basket-weaving?" he asked Clytie. "Well," Clytie responded hardily, "I found plenty teaching that already. I have chosen for my department instruction in tact, taste, dress and manners.
The woman's gaze followed hers, a light of beautiful understanding pierced the fever glare of her eyes, she stretched out her hot hand protestingly, and said, "Don't put her in that. Keep that, it is yours. She is used to being rolled only in my shawl." But Maarda had already lifted the basket down, and was tenderly arranging the wrappings.
Day, cut to the quick, called protestingly upon her husband's name. "I hope you answered him there. I hope you did!" "I said the young beggar was always hanging about my house. That he had danced half the night with my daughter and and made love to her." "And then? And then, William?" "He said, 'I wish all acquaintanceship to cease. I beg you not to invite my young brother to your house again."
Yet when the doctor spoke his mentality issued out of its small habitation of flesh and expanded to commanding proportion. The little doctor was in fine a very great doctor, and on this occasion he was bullying me with the large authority of a Bonaparte. "But, Doctor " I began protestingly.
At two in the afternoon Gourlay was standing on the gravel outside the Red Lion, trying to look wise over a sample of grain which a farmer had poured upon his great palm. Gibson approached with false voice and smile. "Gosh, Mr. Gourlay!" he cried protestingly, "have ye forgotten whatna day it is? Ye havena gi'en my men a ton o' stuff to gang on wi'."
I was devoutly glad when the sunrays became more slanting and the daylight began to wane, and the ducks, still quacking protestingly, departed. It was fully dark before we dared to leave our hiding-place and attempt the risky venture of essaying to reach a safer shelter or refuge in the forests without attracting the attention of any dog at any of the several farmsteads which we must pass.
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