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If you could prove Anton to be the rascal, he should die, whatever the consequences. We would wait for no law. But you are all on the wrong trail, I feel sure." He had dropped back into his old soft-spoken manner, and Tresler felt like hating him for the vileness of the nature he displayed. "You plead well for Anton, Mr.
That gentleman, unusually polite and soft-spoken, found her by herself, and thus accosted her: "You must excuse me, madam, for speaking upon a certain subject without permission from you, but I have reason to believe that you are the bearer of a message to me from Miss Asher." "How in the world did you find that out?" she asked. "It was the Locker," he answered.
His actions may give you some idea as to his feelings, though he is an accomplished diplomat and may conceal his real feelings entirely. But let me caution you not to be modest or soft-spoken. He will mistake softness for fear." "All right," grinned Seaton. "In that case I won't wait to try to find out what he thinks. If he shows any signs of hostility at all, I'll open up on him."
To his persuasive argument that they enter the royal service with promise of quick promotion, they turned a deaf ear although they were wonderfully taken with him. He was a gentle, soft-spoken young man with a boyish smile who blushed when pressed to talk of his own exploits against the Spanish, the Dutch, and the French in Britannia's wooden walls.
She's like a cat soft-spoken enough when she has her own way, but she's got claws, and you may depend she'll show 'em. I hope she won't do anything to harm you, Master Jasper." "Me!" said Jasper, with the bold confidence of a boy, laughing at the thought. "What can Mrs. Kent a woman do to injure me? I'll risk that, Margaret. It's of my father I'm thinking. Will she treat him well?"
'She will be here in a week, says he; and then off without a word of terms. Last night there comes the young leddy hersel' soft-spoken and downcast, with a touch of the French in her speech. But my sakes, sir! I must away and mak' her some tea, for she'll feel lonesome-like, poor lamb, when she wakes under a strange roof."
"Out with it," interrupted the captain, "a man who is soft-spoken and well-mannered not a big noisy old sea-horse like me! Is that what you would say?" "Just so," answered the green-grocer with an amiable nod. "What's the name of the sisters?" "Seaward." "Seaward! eh!" exclaimed the captain in surprise.
Northway, I have been listening to a sad, sad story." "Yes, it is sad," he muttered, feeling his inferiority to this soft-spoken woman, and moving his legs awkwardly. "I must mention to you that my name is Mrs. Wade. I have known Lilian since she came to live at Polterham only since then. That's a very short time ago, but we have seen a good deal of each other, and have become intimate friends.
He was always at the count's, as was also Dr. Algardi, of Bologna, the prince's physician and a delightful man. I often saw at the same house a certain Baron Sellenthin, a Prussian officer, who was always recruiting for his master at Augsburg. He was a pleasant man, somewhat in the Gascon style, soft-spoken, and an expert gamester.
"No," returned Patches easily, "I am certainly not going not just at present and," he added thoughtfully, "if I were you, I wouldn't try to start anything." Something in the extraordinary self-possession of this soft-spoken stranger made the big man hesitate. "Oh, you wouldn't, heh?" he returned. "You mean, I s'pose, that you propose to interfere with my business."
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