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"I think that if you get the police here at once, Jonas, we shall find both the thief and the loot under our very roof," she replied, not without asperity. "You don't mean " he hesitated. "Why, Pudgy, you don't mean you suspect one of the servants?" "Who else could have known?" asked Mrs. Prim. The servants present looked uncomfortable and cast sheepish eyes of suspicion at one another.
Furthermore, she had given Mike the Angel a dressing-down that had been quite impressive. She had not at all cared for the remarks he had made when Snookums was being loaded aboard patting him on the head and asking him his age, for instance and had told him so in no uncertain terms. Mike, feeling sheepish and knowing he was guilty, had accepted the tongue-lashing and tendered an apology.
I'm glad you're taking a sensible view of things. What did I tell you?" "You told me an untruth, father. You told me that Dick was dead." Dora's eyes flashed, and the colonel looked sheepish. He covered his embarrassment with anger. "So, the young fool hasn't taken my advice then? He wants to turn convict.
An undercurrent of warm feeling ran for the plucky little one at it hot again in spite of the strokes, and when he fetched his master a handsome thud across the shoulder, and the gentleman gave up and complimented him, Skepsey had applause. He then begged his hero to put the previous couple in position, through a few of the opening movements. They were horribly sheepish at first.
You can look sheepish, you can look defiant, or you can look surprised according to the state of your conscience. But anything in the way of verbal response is impossible. Gethryn attempted no verbal response. 'Well, Gethryn, went on Mr Jephson, 'was it pleasant up the river yesterday? Mr Jephson always preferred the rapier of sarcasm to the bludgeon of abuse.
"Dear little Jim," said Adams, "I do believe he's got more o' God's book into him, small though he is, than all the rest of us put together. An' he's not far wrong, neither, about May. She's worth a dozen or'nary girls. Now then, lend a hand wi' the canoe. Are you ready, Mistress Toc?" "Quite," replied the heroine of the day, with a pleased glance in Thursday's somewhat sheepish face.
The last remark evoked much laughter, relating, evidently to some standing joke unknown to me. Rashîd looked rather sheepish. Hasan Agha turned to him, and said: 'My son, praise Allah for thy great good fortune in finding favour in the sight of one so noble and benevolent as our beloved guest, who is henceforth thy master.
Mostly no one has ever had any experience when they start to makin' love the first time. But they all make it the same way. That's why it ain't original. You take a man which has got in love with a girl any man. He don't want anyone to know that he's in love with her he feels sorta sheepish about it. Goes around hangin' his head an' blushin', an' mostly not sayin' anything about it.
The great ruffian paused, then stopped, slowly a sheepish smile overspread his countenance and, going upon one knee, he took the hand of Norman of Torn and kissed it, as some great and loyal noble knight might have kissed his king's hand in proof of his love and fealty.
Peter,” replied Roger with a sheepish air. “And how is he, that blessed St. Antony? Could I not come in for one moment to return the visit he once paid me?” “Why, here he comes,” said St. Peter, throwing the door wide open. In the twinkling of an eye the sly golfer had flung himself into paradise, unhooked his apron, let it fall to the ground, and seated himself down on it. “Good morning, St.
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