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He remained calm and self-controlled as always, looking at the preparations for the operation with a kind of indifference. We put the chloroform pad under his nose; he drew two or three deep breaths, and then a strange thing happened: Derancourt began to sob in a terrible manner, and to talk of all those things he had never mentioned.
"I have found trouble sometimes in keeping myself at the right temperature even in January." Ester's cheeks glowed yet more. She understood Dr. Van Anden, and she knew her face did not look very self-controlled. No one knows what prompted Minnie to speak just then. "Aunt Sadie said Auntie Essie was cross. Were you, Auntie Essie?" The household laughed, and Sadie came to the rescue.
For ideal results the father must be kind, considerate and self-controlled. It is a disagreeable fact that many men are brutal and inconsiderate of wives and unborn children. The extent of this brutality can hardly be realized by those who have had no medical experience.
"I picked up the envelope she dropped on the floor in the hall." "I know it, Barbara," Ruth answered in her self-controlled fashion, which always had a calming effect on the more impetuous Bab. "I also believe Mrs. Wilson meant to fix the guilt of the theft upon you. Uncle William called me into his study the other day and asked me if I considered you trustworthy.
But it did not change his reactions in the least, although he was really vexed with himself and endeavored to be conventional and self-controlled for a while. The point is that F. L. attempts inhibition of generous impulses and fails as ignominiously as a drunkard struggling with the desire to drink. Of course he is of the salt of the earth.
"Do you think, knowing all that you do now, that it had anything to do with it indirectly? Indirectly!" Self-controlled though he was, Wellesley could not repress a start of surprise at this question. It was obviously unexpected and it seemed to those who, like Brent and Tansley, were watching him narrowly, that he was considerably taken aback by it. He hesitated.
She said nothing; she looked around abstractedly at my work and only answered 'yes' and 'no, at random, to all the questions which he asked her. When she had left I thought her a little unbalanced. "The following month they returned. She was calm, self-controlled. That day they chattered for a long time, and they left me a rather large order.
Alexina put out a hand to touch her and drew it back, afraid. If only she were not so superbly self-controlled. "Yes, he will most likely awake," he assured her, and must have done so even if he had not thought it. She took off her hat, a large, festive affair with plumes and jewelled buckles, and dropped her wrap. There was a low chair near the bed.
Of course I know quite well you have stuck by him splendidly in his fight for a clean and self-controlled life, but one wonders whether there is not something more." "There is, Sir!" replied his son quickly. "There undoubtedly is!
Some one crossed the street from the pavement opposite the house; and when this some one entered the gate and ascended the steps, she rose slowly, half-reluctant, half-comforted, and with a faint thrill at her heart. It was Ralph Gowan, and she was not wise enough or self-controlled enough yet to see Ralph Gowan without feeling her pulses quicken.
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