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He had a true poetical soul." Mr. Lupton winked sceptically. "He managed to play the part of a thorough-paced young blackguard at home pretty successfully. He was warned off the turf. He was kicked out of his club for card-sharping.
She was willing for me to come. After I learn to do sewing, I can make money and help her. 'See that you don't forget to, said Mrs. Harling sceptically, as she took up her crocheting again and sent the hook in and out with nimble fingers. 'No, 'm, I won't, said Lena blandly.
'Do you FEEL, Ursula, Gudrun began, rather sceptically, that you are going-away-for-ever, never-to-return, sort of thing? 'Oh, we shall come back, said Ursula. 'It isn't a question of train-journeys. 'Yes, I know. But spiritually, so to speak, you are going away from us all? Ursula quivered. 'I don't know a bit what is going to happen, she said. 'I only know we are going somewhere.
'Do you remember what poor papa once let drop that Cytherea was the name of his first sweetheart in Bloomsbury, who so mysteriously renounced him? A sort of intuition tells me that this was the same woman. 'O no not likely, said her brother sceptically. 'How not likely, Owen? There's not another woman of the name in England. In what year used papa to say the event took place?
"You can fancy my fight! She believes in her triumph. I think it has been part of her joy. "Oh her joy!" Strether sceptically murmured. "Well, she thinks she has had her own way. And what's to-night for her but a kind of apotheosis? Her frock's really good." "Good enough to go to heaven in? For after a real apotheosis," Strether went on, "there's nothing BUT heaven.
It must have been a very pleasant day-dream to engross you so completely." "It was," said Victor simply. For once he was thoroughly sincere, and voice and manner both testified to the change. "I was thinking of you," he added, looking at her with the dark eyes which could be so eloquent upon occasions. "My daydreams have always been of you for the last year!" "Always?" echoed Margot sceptically.
Even when the first shock of her defeat had passed, she simply heaved a deep sigh, and uttered two words, "Oh, Zut!" The which, in Parisian argot, at once means everything and nothing. "And what is it makes you think I could be of use in this particular case?" asked Dr. John Silence, looking across somewhat sceptically at the Swedish lady in the chair facing him.
His smile was a tribute to a dual heroism. "Got a little present for you," said Mr. Starkweather, suddenly. He tossed a slip of paper to her, and watched her as she examined it. "There's a string to it, though I want you to hold it awhile." She looked up, sceptically. "Suppose it's good?" "Oh, it's perfectly good. Mix is all right. Only I don't want you to press him for awhile.
On the contrary, as soon as Eliphalet and the officer went into the house, there began at once a series of spiritualistic manifestations, a regular dark séance. A tambourine was played upon, a bell was rung, and a flaming banjo went singing around the room." "Where did they get the banjo?" asked Dear Jones sceptically. "I don't know. Materialized it, maybe, just as they did the tambourine.
A gentleman present, who had, as he afterward told us, studied the subject of spiritualism somewhat, very sceptically and with unsatisfactory results, observed the performance keenly, and suggested that I should try a gentler method of appeal. Whatever the agent was, and what it was he had not yet discovered, he had noticed repeatedly that the quiet modes of meeting it were most effective.
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