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She repeated that also, whereat Mo grinned fatuously, showing his little yellow teeth beneath his scrubby red moustache. "My friends call me Mo," said he. She grasped his meaning. "Mo," she said; and she said it so funnily and softly, and with ever so little a touch of quizzicality, that the sentimental warrior roared with delight. "You've got it right fust time, miss."
Underlying the well-bred banter of the tranquil voice, the guarded quizzicality of his pale brown face, it could be seen that Algernon Cuffe Dennant, Esq., J.P., accustomed to laugh at other people, suspected that he was being laughed at. What more natural than that he should grope about to see how this could be?
Foot of Twenty-sixth Street, you know." The young man smiled with a pathetic quizzicality. "Now, doctor," he said, reproachfully, "there's no use in going over that ground again. I made the terms of the sale perfectly plain, and there can be no deviation from them." "Well, if that's your last word," retorted the unsuccessful bidder, "I'll say good-evening."
No bed, no wash-stand, no chest of drawers, no wardrobe, no mirror, not even a jar of Clara's special pot-pourri. And Felix said: "This can't be your bedroom, Mother?" Frances Freeland answered, with a touch of deprecating quizzicality: "Oh yes, darling. I must show you my arrangements." And she rose.
When she had paid the bill, and Hilary had taken from her a large brown-paper parcel, they journeyed on together. He had armoured his face now in a slightly startled quizzicality, as though, himself detached, he were watching the adventure from a distance.
I once wore the Queen's uniform." Zora, sitting on the arm of a chair, half steadying herself with her umbrella, regarded the old man standing respectfully at attention before her with a smile whose quizzicality she could not restrain. The old villain drew himself up in a dignified way. "I don't mean the government uniform, ma'am. I've had my misfortunes like anyone else.
"Well?" she asked, with just a gleam of quizzicality in her eyes, for she knew whence he had come. "One of these days I'll take him out and teach him to shoot," said the Colonel.
Pendyce glanced up at him; there was a touch of quizzicality in one of her lifted eyebrows. "I mustn't keep you, dear; you'll be late for the shooting." Mr. Pendyce, a sportsman of the old school, who still kept pointers, which, in the teeth of modern fashion, he was unable to employ, set his face against the use of two guns.
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