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"Good God!" he stammeringly exclaimed. And he could think of nothing else to say, while Jean, in whose bones the very marrow seemed to be congealing, murmured in his resigned manner: "Ah, worse luck! The gentleman, that relative of yours, was right all the same in saying that they are stronger than we." Maurice was beside himself, could have strangled him. The Prussians stronger than the French!
"I don't want to stay behind." "Then, it's for you to judge, my son." There was something like an affectionate stress on the two concluding monosyllables. Ashley backed off, out of the lamplight. "It's this way," he explained, stammeringly; "I'm a British officer and gentleman. I'm a little more than that since I'm a V.C. man and a fellow dash it all, I might as well say it!
"We'll have an awfully nice teacher," she told him. "Miss Shipman." Just then Ruth appeared at the upper window and looked down upon them. "My goodness! what are you doing down there, Aggie?" demanded Ruth. "And who's that with you!" "I I got up to get a peach, Ruthie," explained Agnes, rather stammeringly. "And I asked the boy to have one, too."
As a menace, as a prophecy, the old women and the hunchback and the strumming piano had gone forever. Free secure, independent free! After a long silence Garvey ventured stammeringly: "He said to me he asked me to request he didn't make it a condition just a wish a hope, Miss Lenox that if you could, and felt it strongly enough "
He took the hand she held out, a fair, soft hand with a pink palm like an upcurled shell, and laid the little cross within it, and still retaining his hold of her, he stammeringly observed "Then we are friends, Froeken Thelma! . . . good friends, I hope?" She withdrew her fingers quickly from his hot, moist clasp, and her bright smile vanished. "I do not see that at all!" she replied frigidly.
He just saw that she was not angry; yes, he was so shy and humble that he could not see more; but that little glimpse of kindliness was enough to lure him forward. On he went, hastily and stammeringly, like a man who has but a moment in which to speak, only a moment before some everlasting farewell. "Oh, Miss Van Diemen! Is there can there ever be any hope for me?"
"You see, ma'am But I beg pardon," he went on stammeringly, and with a very awkward bow "I beg pardon, but I am addressing ah the ah the " "You are addressing the new landlady," she interpolated pleasantly. "Mrs. Miller is my name. I think we should be friends, Mr. McKinney, since I hear that you are one of the oldest patrons of the house."
Then she said stammeringly: "I I don't think it would have done for you to to One mustn't er public opinion one has to be so careful so " It was a difficult road, and she got mired; but after a little she got started again. "It was a great pity, but Why, we couldn't afford it, Edward we couldn't indeed. Oh, I wouldn't have had you do it for anything!"
Maude's face was aflame now with a great and sudden joy, and her soft eyes drooped beneath Harold's as he went on stammeringly, for he began to feel the awkwardness of telling one girl that he loved another, even though that other were her dearest friend. 'I hardly know how to begin, he said, 'it is such a delicate matter, and perhaps I'd better say nothing at all. 'Was he going to stop?
Her fleet glance at him was half-scared. "You you are very good to your countrywomen in distress," she got out stammeringly. Billy contemplated his cigar. It was safer. Presently she reverted to the topic of discovery. "But about Mr. Falconer? Are you sure his suspicions are over now?" "Perfectly sure. Or they will be the moment he sees you.
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