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Updated: June 9, 2025
It is really such an outworn theme that the very mention of it is greeted with smiles or supercilious shrugs, and even lovers of their kind have grown apologetic about it.
He only shrugs his shoulders and smiles sarcastic. "The pleasure seems to be all mine," says he. "But as you choose. Who am I to contend with the defender of the widow and the orphan that between issuing a stock and trading in it there is a slight difference? However deeply I am distressed by your private opinion of me, I shall try to " "Ah, ditch the sarcasm," says I, "and spring your game!
Passports are imperatively necessary upon landing, and if the visitor desires to travel outside of the port at which he arrives a fresh permit is necessary, for which a fee is charged. In vain do you show your passport, indorsed by the Spanish consul at the port from which you embarked in America. The official shrugs his shoulders, and says it is the law.
But her mother had noticed the movement, and a swift glance toward her husband drew from him the briefest of nods, the most imperceptible of shrugs. "Come, Johnny dear," she urged, and her voice had lost its accustomed shrillness now; "let us go forth and see what has happened to the Little Old Man of the Spuds."
John sometimes shrugs his shoulders at what he calls his wife's extraordinary faith in human nature, and both he and Mary are sometimes driven to the verge of distraction by Chrysophrasia's perpetual moaning over civilization; but no one is ever out of temper with Hermione, nor is Hermione ever impatient with any one of the three.
Gustav appeared, all smiles and shrugs and compliments. "Eh bien! my good gentleman," said he, "I am 'appy to see you well. I was mortifie for your mishap; but Mademoiselle ah, Mademoiselle!" here he raised his fingers gracefully to his lips "ze angel step in where ze pauvre garcon may not walk. You could not but be well with a nurse so charmante.
Constance, usually so retiring, makes her way into the front row, listens to the discussions, catches on the wing snatches of sentences, technical phrases which she remembers, nods her head approvingly, smiles, shrugs her shoulders when she hears any slighting remark, longing to crush the first person who should fail to admire.
"And as for dubbing me a thief so readily" he paused, and shrugged his shoulders "you are a woman," he concluded, with an air suggesting that that fact was a conclusion to all things. "Fool!" she blazed. "Do you think to overcome me by quibbles? Do you think to dupe me with words and shrugs?" "My dear Cecile" he begged half-whimsically, "may I implore you to use some restraint?
I'll answer for it that out of such a suit as I propose you could get a compromise, especially if they see you are determined to carry Ursula to a court of appeals." Here the joy of the heirs already fingering their gold was made manifest in smiles, shrugs, and gestures round the table, and prevented all notice of Goupil's dissent.
"But I don't notice any darkened streets and white-painted kerbs; and we don't 'ear the inhabitants shrieking about protection from air raids, or 'Where's the anti-aircraft guns? or 'Who's responsible for air defense? or 'A baa the Government that don't a baa the air raids! 'say la gerr, says they, and shrugs their shoulders, and leaves it go at that."
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