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Then she bolted for the kitchen. The Secretary wiped his eyes. "I hope I haven't seriously upset your household," he said to Jim. Jim shook his head. "Your coming will be one of the great events of her life. Supper will be late but it will be well worth eating." "Then," said the Secretary, "let us continue our private hearing. What have you been trying to do here on the dam, Mr. Manning?"
"Where are you going for a year?" asked Miss Forbes. Her voice now showed no concern. It even sounded as though she did not take his news seriously, as though as to his movements she was possessed of a knowledge superior to his own. He tried to speak in matter-of-fact tones. "To Uganda!" he said. "To Uganda?" repeated Miss Forbes. "Where is Uganda?"
Eager addressed her professionally: "Courage, Miss Honeychurch, courage and faith. If I might say so, there is something almost blasphemous in this horror of the elements. Are we seriously to suppose that all these clouds, all this immense electrical display, is simply called into existence to extinguish you or me?" "No of course "
"I think Ku-Klip was wrong to make two tin men, just alike, and the strangest thing of all is that both you tin men fell in love with the same girl." "As for that," returned the Soldier, seriously, "I must admit I lost my ability to love when I lost my meat heart.
"I am not laughing at you, my boy," he said, though Jerome's wondering, indignant eyes upon his face were, to his thinking, past humorous. Then he laid a hand upon each of the boy's little homespun shoulders. "Go and see Doctor Prescott, and tell him your plan, and if he does not approve of it, come here and let me know," he said, and seriously enough to suit even Jerome's jealous self-respect.
Several days later, when I had a moment in which to remember Ronnie's poor Infant of Prague, I examined it in a good light, and found the place where the hole made by that dagger had been skilfully mended." "Lor!" said Dr. Dick. "We're getting on! Don't you think you and I and the Infant might put our heads together, and write a psychic book! But now seriously.
I believe, Frank Muller, that there is a God, and I believe that God sets a limit to a man's doings. If he is going too far, God kills him. If you live, Frank Muller, you will do these things, but perhaps God will kill you. Who can say? You will do what God wills, not what you will." The elder man was speaking seriously now.
Sir, I pray that you will listen to me seriously, though my language is not of a kind to make you think me absolutely earnest in what I say, unless you know me." "Which, I must protest, I certainly do not," interposed Sir William. "I will do my best to instruct you, sir. Until recently, I have not known myself. I met this girl. She trusted herself to me.
On speaking to the girl, it turned out that she knew of a medical man, living within ten minutes' walk of the cottage. She could give plain directions enabling any person to find the place but she was afraid, at that hour of the night and in that lonely neighborhood, to go out by herself. "Is he seriously ill?" Anne asked.
Townley," rejoined Lambert seriously, as he loitered at the steps of her carriage, "I shouldn't be surprised if my Lady Wigwam a rather apt and striking title, by the way turned out better than we think.
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