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Brownlow, 'except that it remains for us to take care that neither of you is employed in a situation of trust again. You may leave the room. 'I hope, said Mr. Bumble, looking about him with great ruefulness, as Mr. Grimwig disappeared with the two old women: 'I hope that this unfortunate little circumstance will not deprive me of my porochial office? 'Indeed it will, replied Mr. Brownlow.
He gave Canby a look of burlesque ruefulness over his shoulder, the comedy appeal of one schoolboy to another as they leave a scolding teacher on the far side of the door. "The governor does keep himself worked up!" he laughed, as they reached the street and paused. "If it isn't one thing, it's some thing!" "Perhaps it's my play just now," said Canby.
Fallen muscles, a forehead contracted into folds, eyes dim with unbidden drops, and a ruefulness of aspect which no words can describe, were now visible. His looks touched into energy the same sympathies in me, and I poured forth a flood of tears. This passion was quickly checked by fear, which had now, no longer, my own, but his safety for their object. I watched his deportment in silence.
"Very well, boy," Rodan said at last. "A hundred dollars for a week's work period." Frank was glad that Lester had a place to go and furious that he would probably have to nursemaid him, after all. Gimp Hines kept riding the rim of his ring like a merry-go-round, his face trying to show casual humor and indifference over ruefulness and scare. "Nobody wants me," he said cheerfully.
"I figure three times a regular meal ought to be about it," he said. "Even then it don't cover everything; but matter of fact, I'm ashamed to charge any more." His ruefulness changed to a grin when he had the money in his hand, and Bull Hunter rose from the table. "But you got something to feed, son," he said. "You certainly got something to feed. And is what the boys are saying right?"
You might have," I admitted with some ruefulness, "if you had known I was bucking both the Allied governments and the picked talent of the Central powers. It was too much. I was riding for a fall, and I got it. But I don't mind saying, Dunny, I'm infernally glad you came." He wiped his eyes. "Well, you go to sleep now," he counseled gruffly.
"But whoever, O, my father, had opened that forbidden door the veriest crack, and breathed its scent and glimpsed its dazzlement then for him there is no turning back," he confided. He rose and Khazib's eyes followed him. "Luck go with you, my son," he said clearly, "in Allah's name," and smiling in faint ruefulness, "May Allah heed thee!" Ryder murmured piously.
"And you must not breathe a word of what has happened," she charged him. But here he grew restive. "I must, dearest. Why, it would be doubly dishonourable not to speak at once to Dr. Millar, confined as he is to his chair; you cannot fail to see that." "They will all laugh at me," sighed the subdued Annie, with comical ruefulness. "Rose will laugh, and May.
He sate with 'his eye in a fine frenzy rolling, and turned his inspired gaze on Marionetta as if she had been the ghastly ladie of a magical vision; then placed his hand before his eyes, with an appearance of manifest pain shook his head withdrew his hand rubbed his eyes, like a waking man and said, in a tone of ruefulness most jeremitaylorically pathetic, 'To what am I to attribute this very unexpected pleasure, my dear Miss O'Carroll?
"Fawns is all there for you, of course to the end of my tenure. But Fawns so dismantled," he added with mild ruefulness, "Fawns with half its contents, and half its best things, removed, won't seem to you, I'm afraid, particularly lively." "No," Maggie answered, "we should miss its best things. Its best things, my dear, have certainly been removed.
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