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You've made me spill coffee on Nita's Bagdad." "I can't help that," said Madeline Ayres, composedly. "You were implying that I'm a pig. I'm not; I'm only devoted to chocolate." "What's happening to-night, Nita?" demanded Bob, popping up like a Jack- in-the-box from behind Madeline's back. "There!" exclaimed Betty, resignedly. "I've spilled it again! Where have you been, Bob?"
"I remember our doctor telling mother that if people only wouldn't try to force confidences from the boys and would try to keep all thought of the awful things they had been through out of their minds, there would be fewer cases of nervous breakdowns." "Pop!" said Grace, snapping her finger resignedly. "There go all our hopes of a good time, Amy.
Incidentally, quite incidentally, you understand, he is waiting to be asked to help you out in that mining deal." "Fetch him," was the curt command; and Mr. Colbrith sat down to wade resignedly through the mass of delayed wire correspondence.
At the next session of the Institute he will have to yield to evidence." The driver wrapped his ragged cloak around him. Resignedly, he was saying to himself, "I have seen many odd folks, but this one " He heard the word "Institute." "The Institute, Monsieur?" he asked. "Yes, my friend, the Institute," replied Marmus. "Well he wears the red ribbon," said the driver to himself.
"I thought so," she sighed resignedly. "Of course no one would have you. It's hopeless." "It's not," he argued sharply, his pride, anger in revolt. He, who had no right to any claim. "We're not compelled to marry each other. It's a free country. It is ridiculous, preposterous." "Oh, don't get so fussy!" she interrupted petulantly. "Don't you think I've tried to kick over the traces?
The hopeless drab of her days stretched behind her, broken only by the incident of her widowhood, and stretched ahead hopelessly. She had accepted Dan's going to France resignedly, with neither protest nor undue anxiety. She had never been very close to Dan, although she loved him more than she did Edith. She was the sort of woman who has no fundamental knowledge of men.
It concerns a matter not usually talked about before young girls, but you are, I believe, already a woman in heart and understanding, and you will hear resignedly what I have to tell you, however much the recital may trouble you. I have already informed you that your marriage with Claudet is impossible. I now declare that it would be criminal, for the reason that incest is an abomination."
"George," said Lady Atherley, "what is that noise?" The question, timed as Lady Atherley's remarks so often were, came with something of a shock. Her husband, thus checked in full flight, seemed to reel for a moment, but quickly recovering himself, asked resignedly: "What noise?" "Such a strange noise, like the howling of a dog." "Probably it is the howling of a dog."
You walk into a business office in a Norfolk suit, and everybody from the office boy to the president of the company will ask you what your score is." She tossed it back over his arm. "I'll wear the black and white," said Jock resignedly, and turned toward his own room. At his doorway he paused and raised his voice slightly: "For that matter, they're looking for young men. Everybody's young.
But before resignedly adopting extreme measures she tried her friends and in a joking sort of way got the men to give her all they had about them, even down to their coppers. For the last three months she had been emptying Philippe's pockets especially, and now on days of passionate enjoyment he never came away but he left his purse behind him.
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