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Miss Lancaster, a thin, erect woman of fifty, with impassive features, and iron-gray hair that looked as if it were rolled over wood, glanced resignedly from Mrs. Spencer's orange-coloured crimps to the imprisoned sunlight in Florrie's hair.
The spring wind came in through the opened window, and fluttered the leaves of the old prayer-book on the stand. The week that followed was an anxious one. David's physical condition slowly improved. The slight thickness was gone from his speech, and he sipped resignedly at the broths Lucy or the nurse brought at regular intervals.
"He's very 'cute, but he's made a mistake at last." "Do come to the point, colonel. What's it all about?" "Would you be surprised to hear," said the colonel, adopting a famous mode of speech, "that the interest on the debt would not be paid on the 31st?" "No, I shouldn't," said I resignedly. "Would you be surprised to hear that no more interest would ever be paid?" "The devil!"
The decision with which he then unbosomed himself to Oliver, still characterised his thoughts, but he had not courage to elude the dialogue forced upon him, still less to make known his resentment of the man's offensive vulgarity. He endured in silence, his heart afire with scornful wrath. The affliction could not have befallen him at a time when he was less capable of supporting it resignedly.
Wires are down, but that doesn't matter to you, I know. You're still in luck!" Jimmy's hopes went smash, and resignedly he turned away. He was in for it, and was too conscientious to deliberately lie to his firm about the impossibility of getting through.
We're driftin' somewheres, but we're spinnin' 'round so I can't tell which way. Judas!" he exclaimed, more soberly, "I remember, now; it ain't but a little past seven o'clock, and the tide's goin' out." "Of course it is," resignedly, "and we'll drift into the breakers in the bay, and that 'll be the end." "No, no, I guess not. We ain't dead yit.
Peter smoked reflectively. "I remember your father well, Jack," he said. "He was a big-hearted man." Old Danny was heard remonstrating loudly with spirits from a warmer clime than Australia, and Peter stepped over to soothe him. "I thought I'd get it, directly after I opened my mouth," said Mitchell. "I suppose it will be your turn next, Joe." "I suppose so," said Joe, resignedly. The wind fell.
I am often obliged to send word that I am not 'at home' to the beaux, and yet that is very cruel. But duty is my guide, and I bow to its bequests." With which words, Miss Sallianna fixed her eyes resignedly upon the ceiling, and was silent.
If he has, we must make the best of it. She is a sweet girl and a fine housekeeper, and would make a good mother for those poor, neglected children. And," concluded Miss Cornelia resignedly, "my own grandmother was an Episcopalian." Mary Vance, whom Mrs.
The veteran officer was absent; but the old pensioner, sitting on a pile of stamped papers, was munching a crust and acting as sentinel resignedly. Coloquinte was as much accustomed to his work in the office as to the fatigue duty of former days, understanding as much or as little about it as the why and wherefore of forced marches made by the Emperor's orders.
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