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Had that come to pass, they might have pardoned the rude method of its making in fancy he listened to the witty, cutting, self-derisive words, in which they would have alluded to his success. Lying back in his chair he thought of them thus, without unkindliness, even with a dash of humour. That was possible, now that knocking about the world had rubbed off some of his own corners.
I've got to do something or go back home. I expected to have a chum of mine with me, but his father was injured in an automobile accident, so he went into the office to help out." As he talked the girl discovered new graces, new allurements in him. His smile, so subtly self-derisive, and his voice so flexible and so quietly eloquent, completed her subjugation.
"It'll take three mornings to do it," Edith said, importantly; and Maurice said: "It will, because you keep putting the wrong end up! I wish Eleanor was well enough to do it," he said and then burst into self-derisive chuckles: "Imagine Eleanor straddling that ridgepole! It would scare her stiff!" It was after this talk that Maurice "backed out" on the job but Edith never knew why.
Perhaps they had gone to sleep. He squinted at their hammocks. Yes, they were occupied. Stepping softly to the hammock of Pedro, he lifted the net to whisper to the occupant. Then he stared, dropped the net, and lifted Lourenço's curtain. A soft, self-derisive chuckle sounded in his throat as he stole out again. The hammocks were occupied, yes; but only by packs and rifles.
Do you imagine that I have been offering myself to Mrs. Bowen?" "Wasn't it that which you wished to which you said you would like to tell me?" Colville was suddenly silent, on the verge of a self-derisive laugh. When he spoke, he said gently: "No; it wasn't that. I never thought of offering myself to her. We have always been very good friends.
There were other acquaintances of Annie's from Over the Track, in the group about her, and upon the example of the Savors they all greeted her. The wives and sweethearts tittered with self-derisive expectation; the men were gravely jocose, like all Americans in unwonted circumstances, but they were respectful to the coming performance, perhaps as a tribute to Annie.
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