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Carleton, almost shocked by the suggestion. "Ride with you! What would people think?" "A fig for people's thoughts! Get your shawl and bonnet, and take a drive with me. What do you care for meddlesome people's thoughts? Come!" The doctor knew his patient. "But you're not in earnest, surely?" There was a half-amused twinkle in the lady's eyes. "Never more in earnest.
Are you shocked, little reader, that Tidy, the good, exemplary, conscientious Tidy, should have thought of appropriating Amelia's wardrobe to herself? I must stop a moment here to explain to you the slaves' code of morals.
But, surely, it seems to me if I am willing to do my duty in seeing that you have proper care and instruction, YOU ought to be willing to do yours by seeing that that care and instruction are not ungratefully wasted." Pollyanna looked shocked. "Oh, Aunt Polly, as if I ever could be ungrateful to YOU! Why, I LOVE YOU and you aren't even a Ladies' Aider; you're an aunt!"
When we got aft, we had an account to hear, which naturally very much shocked us; however, I will narrate it as things occurred. We found that the vessel we were on board was the Dutch colonial brig Swalen commanded by Lieutenant Cloete.
"Let ME get it, dear," pleaded Zoie, and she laid a small detaining hand upon his arm as he passed. "Stop it!" commanded Alfred hotly, and he shook the small hand from his sleeve as though it had been something poisonous. "But Allie," protested Zoie, pretending to be shocked and grieved. "Don't you 'but Allie' me," cried Alfred, turning upon her sharply.
"Dutton, can you, as a father and a Christian, give such heartless counsel to your own child!" exclaimed Mrs. Dutton, inexpressibly shocked at the want of principle, as well as at the want of feeling, discovered in her husband's advice. "Mrs. Martha Dutton, I can; and believe the counsel to be any thing but heartless, too.
I don't complain of your phonograph nights, I leave that to Mr. Wells, and you needn't find fault with my bird mornings." "I'm not finding fault, far be it from me; only when Mr. Wells sends down word that your new pet is a nuisance you can answer him yourself." "How could anyone say a bird was a nuisance?" Mary Rose was shocked.
While taking my after-dinner smoke that afternoon, I carefully considered the situation as it had now become altered by the fatal fracas in the forecastle; and having no desire to be deemed a better man than I really am I may as well confess at once that, while I was profoundly shocked by what had occurred, it was quite impossible for me to regret it.
"I never saw the time, mother, solemnly as I've told you, when his right hand knew what his left hand did, what with his champagne-suppers, your Burgundy, and Johnny Graeme's Jamaica. He'd have been sorely shocked to wake up sober in his earldom some fine morning and find a countess beside him ready-made to his hand." "You spared him!" said my mother.
Burton on tenterhooks, she was no less uneasy on his account when they went into society. He was so apt to call things by their right names. Thus on one occasion when the conversation ran upon a certain lady who was known to be unfaithful to her husband, he inexpressibly shocked a sensitive company by referring to her as "an adulteress."
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