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Several instances of his kindness to the children and to his own little sisters were repeated, and Mrs Inglis spoke warmly in his praise. "Only, mamma," said Violet, with some hesitation, "all these things are agreeable to himself. He does such things because he likes to do them." "And ain't that to be put to his credit," said Miss Bethia.
He smiled half sorrowfully, half bitterly. He was thinking how easy it might be for Rosamund to give up her old home and her old friends altogether; and he was asking himself, too, if he had really toiled through these many years only to have the results squandered at last by a stranger in a strange land. "To England, yes," he repeated.
"You know all about it?" repeated Dave Dashaway, looking up in great surprise. "That's what I do," declared Hiram positively. "What do you mean?" "I'll explain." "I wish you would." "I'm a blockhead, that's just what I am!" cried Hiram. "I don't know what possessed me that I didn't tell you all about it before." "See here, Hiram," broke in Dave, "What are you talking about?" "Why, about Mr.
"Well, I presume likely there's some truth in that. What's your particular fight, for instance?" The little bookkeeper looked at him for an instant before replying. The captain's question was kindly asked, but there was, or so Laban imagined, the faintest trace of sarcasm in its tone. That trace decided him. He leaned across the desk. "My particular fight?" he repeated.
No man could look at a stranger's face that way. Then I knew what the resemblance was that has puzzled me ever since I met you. The only wonder to me is that I did not see it long ago." "You knew it," repeated Dan slowly, "and yet you told me to count you as a friend in the deepest meaning of that word. How could you mean it?" The Doctor's answer came with deep impressiveness.
It was almost as if she felt some one had come in to them unnoticed. "We must believe that in plants there exists a faint copy of what we know as consciousness in ourselves." "If," she repeated lamely, feeling before the stare of those questioning eyes she must say something, but not yet having gathered her wits together quite. "Consciousness," he rejoined.
York's were three who amused the company particularly; the festive mob followed them as they moved, and their bon-mots were applauded and repeated by all the best, that is to say, the most fashionable male and female judges of wit. The three distinguished characters were a spendthrift, a bailiff, and a dun.
"'Unkind? she repeated. 'I never knew you to have an unkind thought. Whatever you do or say would always be considered charming. "'More pretty speeches, said I, trying to laugh, for I had the grace to feel a little ashamed of my ill humor. 'You quite overwhelm me with them to-day let me try my skill.
"But I must answer your first question before it is repeated. No, mon frère, I am afraid she is not to be here to day. She is a little ill with fatigue." "O my poor friend!"
And Vernabelle knew who to blame, too, when the little group quit coming round to get away from it all. She knew it was Dulcie. She said that Dulcie seemed to be a pampered society butterfly that devoted all her thoughts to dress. This was repeated to Dulcie by an ex-Bohemian, but she found no poison in it.
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