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He could not help feeling that it had been rather fiasco. The man whom he had purposed utterly to discomfit had throughout been provokingly at his ease; the best that could be made of it was, a drawn battle. A disagreeable consciousness crept over the chaplain of having made himself generally obnoxious, without reaping any equivalent advantage or even satisfaction.
"Why, he didn't say; but I suppose she is with father. He stopped to call at the Newton's. I guess you will have to hurry, won't you?" Jennie was provokingly cool and composed; no sense of responsibility rested upon her. "Hurry!" said Eurie. "Why, he can't have any dinner here. We haven't a thing in the house for a stranger."
Francesca, who was holding a plunging child between her knees, actively inspecting its head, grunted but did not look up, and the oracle of the wash-tubs, provokingly, with slow movements of her knotted coffee-coloured arms, flapped a dainty skirt, half-covered with drawn work, before she condescended to speak further.
The clerk on duty was provokingly slow; he finished checking a document, and then lounged across to the window and took the form, running over it leisurely. "Oh, you've got the stamps on. All right," he said, and turned away just as quick steps were heard, and Mrs. Rainham bustled in, panting. "What are you doing?" Cecilia met her with steady eyes. "Nothing wrong, I assure you."
A holiday is due! I celebrate!" He was rhapsodic and he was serious, too. She was provokingly flippant as an antidote for Marcus Aurelius, whom she was still carrying in the little flexible leather volume. "How celebrate?" she inquired.
It made his blood boil. "Would you be so very ridiculous for having been delicate and tender?" "I don't see what tenderness has to do with it," cried Cayrol; "on the contrary! But I love you. You don't seem to think it!" "Prove it," replied Jeanne, more provokingly. This time Cayrol lost all patience. "Is it in leaving you that I shall prove it?
Dickey made a joke of the matter, and said how foolish we should all look in the morning when the schooner was nowhere; and Polly was provokingly indifferent.
And he again made her a polite bow, and entered his parlor. "How provokingly familiar he is," thought she; "but no one can deny that he is handsome." The bright roguish face of the young girl haunted Ralph during the whole next week. He had been in love at least ten times before, of course; but, like most boys, with young ladies far older than himself.
A girl with no "man" to stand by her, ought not to look so provokingly radiant; nor, by the same rule, ought she to have such positive likes and dislikes, or a tongue always so ready to express them. That very morning soon after leaving her aunt and the gossips around her, she met upon the beach Mysie Raith and Kitty Cupar.
Kenneth always has good manners. Well, and what did you say, Patty?" Patty eyed Nan, provokingly. "What do you think, Nancy?" "Honestly, Patty, I haven't the slightest idea. Ken is splendid, I think, but " "But what, Nan?" And Patty looked deeply interested. "First, what did you say?" "I won't tell you, until you tell me what you meant by 'but."
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