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"Alas, it's against regulations," said Rickie. "The Union won't trust lady visitors on its premises alone." "But who's to know I'm alone? With a lot of men in the drawing-room, how's each to know that I'm not with the others?" "That would shock Rickie," said Agnes, laughing. "He's frightfully high-principled." "No, I'm not," said Rickie, thinking of his recent shiftiness over breakfast.
"Yes, father, but what if a little green leaf is stuck over the hole with wax?" said the son. "Where hast thou seen that?" "In a merchant's garden," said the youngster. "Oh, my son, merchant folks are quick folks," said the father. "If thou hast been among the children of the world, thou hast learned worldly shiftiness enough, only see that thou usest it well, and do not be too confident."
It was nothing to me whether you heard this news then or later; but I knew that you had passed a sleepless night, and that the doctor had been sent for." "You knew you knew!" cried the listener, with savage scorn. "Did you know why Lord Dymchurch had gone?" "I took it for granted that it had something to do with Miss Tomalin." "Answer me in plain words, without a lie, and without shiftiness.
Eddy's book there is the same shiftiness, the same hardness, and the same astonishing complacency, and the text of the first three editions is disfigured by innumerable ebullitions of spite and hatred.
Why was she so late in coming home, and what had heightened her colour, given that peculiar shiftiness to her eyes? She rose, went to Helen's door, and knocked. "May I come in?" "Of course I have a letter to write by post-time." "I won't keep you long," said Irene, standing before her friend's chair, and regarding her with grave earnestness. "Did Mr. Otway call this morning?"
It, too, has its manual of feints, holds, tricks, and specialties, and calls out wariness, quickness, strength, and shiftiness. Victory need involve no cruelty or even pain to the vanquished.
'Twould make this shiftiness of mine seem less the thing it is." "So you have stayed at home a-courting while others fought to give you leisure," said I, thinking to rally him. But he took it harder than I meant. "'Tis just that, Jack; and I am fair ashamed.
His confidence in the man vanished as he looked at him and saw his insignificance, his dirty appearance, his shiftiness, and his unintelligent, hairy face. It was strange that he had never seen this before. "You won't object, of course, if we ask you to consult another doctor?" he continued. At this the little man became openly incensed. "Ah!" he cried. "You have not confidence in me?
Laetitia's attempt to shift with Miss Middleton's shiftiness was vain; for now she seemed really listening to the language of Jealousy: jealous of the ancient Letty Dale and immediately before the tone was quite void of it. "Yes," she said, "but you make me feel myself in the dark, and when I do I have the habit of throwing myself for guidance upon such light as I have within.
Though the weather was chilly for early September, great beads of perspiration glistened on his forehead. His eyes were dull; they lacked their wonted shiftiness. He gazed at the reporter unblinkingly, as though thought itself refused to act. "Is that the lot?" he inquired mechanically. "Nearly all, at present.
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