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Colter had not been so bold nor so rude as Daggs, but he was the same kind of man, perhaps the more dangerous for his secretiveness, his cool, waiting inscrutableness. "'Mawnin', Ellen!" he drawled. "Y'u shore look good for sore eyes." "Don't pay me compliments, Colter," replied Ellen. "An' your eyes are not sore." "Wal, I'm shore sore from fightin' an' ridin' an' layin' out," he said, bluntly.
"She sent you a message of a sort.... But I can't give it to you until you have told me all about the accident in which you were burned." "I'll tell," Lydia promised eagerly. Gone were the harshness and secretiveness with which she had met his earlier questioning.... "You see, sir, I loved Miss Nita I called her Nita, if you don't mind, sir. I loved her like she was my own child.
Rudyard, who understands Life's violence, would understand that; what he could never understand would be perpetual artifice, unseemly secretiveness.
It is no adequate answer to our antagonists to say, indeed it is a mere tu quoque to say, that the existing system does not present such a correlation, that it puts a premium on secretiveness and self-seeking and a discount on many most necessary forms of social service. That is a mere temporary argument for a delay in judgment.
On the one side was the Cure, patient, gentle, friendly, never pushing forward the Faith which the good man dreamed should give him refuge and peace; on the other side was the murderer, who typified unrest, secretiveness, an awful isolation, and a remorse which had never been put into words or acts of restitution.
She found the man a baffling and fascinating combination of qualities, all petty selfishness and colossal egotisms one minute, abounding in endless charms and graces and small endearing chivalries the next; outrageously outspoken at times, at other times, reticent to the point of secretiveness; now reaching the most extravagant pitch of high spirits, and then, almost without warning, submerged in moods of Stygian gloom from which nothing could rouse him.
I don't want that man talking all the way up here with old Files's gabby hostler, or with anybody else I send from the village." Vaniman, even though he tried to make Britt's reasons for the request seem convincing, could not help feeling that the financier's natural secretiveness in matters of personal business was stretched somewhat in this instance.
"He is incorrigible with his secretiveness." "Mrs. Maldon," said Rachel anxiously, "you look pale. Is it being in this draught?" She shut the door. Mrs. Maldon sighed and moved away. She hesitated at the parlour door and then said "I must go upstairs a moment." Louis stood hesitant and slightly impatient in the parlour, alone.
The former he inherited from his father, a peddler, the latter from his mother, the keeper for many years of a rough dive for sailors along the quay in Montreal. Both had died when he was a child and from an early age he shifted for himself, made no friends and needed little sleep and pursued his business with ferocious energy by night as well as by day. Added to this was a certain secretiveness.
She did not tell, but she knew that I knew. That child was a trump." "Well, what can you expect of a girl who was a child like that?" said Risley. "Mind you, in a way I don't like it. This power for secretiveness and this rigidity of pride in a girl of that age strike me rather unpleasantly.
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