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The quiet, commonplace clergyman spoke with a sudden tremor of feeling. His wife, however, looked at him with a dissatisfied expression. 'You always talk, she said, 'as if there were no one but Catherine. People generally like the other two much better. Catherine is so stand-off. 'Oh, the other two are very well, said the vicar, but in a different tone. Robert sat ruminating.
Of all youth's passions and pleasures, this is the most common and least alloyed; and every flash of Alan's black eyes; every aspect of his curly head; every graceful reach, every easy, stand-off attitude of waiting; ay, and down to his shirt-sleeves and wrist-links, were seen by John through a luxurious glory.
These be hard times for those as have to do with horses." He got up painfully. "Well, now," said Doctor Simon, "I'd feel better if I paid you for treating my horse. Just put this five-dollar bill in your pocket. I guess you need it more than I do." Danny shook his head. "That's all right!" he said weakly, for he was feeling very ill. "It's a stand-off."
Sometimes I succeed in having her do this when there is a third person present, and the look of hatred which passes across her face when she perceives she has made a mistake, is a most interesting thing to see. But she immediately comes to my side and we kiss each other and call each other 'angel girls' and 'darlings. Thus we play with each other, and it is a stand-off which is cleverest.
If this, in conjunction with that other document I shall show at the same time, doesn't put an end to that upstart's chances with Gilcrest's daughter, I'm much out of my reckoning. Ah, Betty! bewitching, tormenting Betty! I'll have you yet in spite of your stand-off airs and half-veiled scorn of James Anson Drane."
It was the merest movement, an unstudied gesture of despair. Tenney was sitting by the kitchen stove, and Nan went to him with outstretched hand. "I thought I should find you if I came early enough," she said. "How's your foot?" She had a direct address country folk liked. She was never "stand-off," "stuck-up." It was as easy talking with her as with John Raven.
"I am not going to say that I see more than I see." "It may be that she cannot love," said the Marquis, "and I don't think less of her on that account. These sentimental girls become very monotonous and sickening. The women whom men love the longest are prim, stand-off women. Have you noticed that, Isidore?" "No, I haven't noticed that.
An' he goes on dilatin' to the effect that he stops six of 'em for good with the six loads in his weepon, an' then makes it a stand-off on the remainin' fourteen with the empty gun. "'It is the slumberin' terrors of my eye, I reckons, says this Lyin' Amos.
Ellen, herself, adjusted its lace and ribbons, then watched Joyce's descent to the lower floor with approving eyes. "There ain't many 'twould make her look so well on so little, that's certain. But then again there ain't many that needs so little to make 'em look well, so I guess it's a stand-off. And she's always pleased with what I do, and that's comforting," she remarked to the balustrade.
I'd like to see you try it; I sure would!" "He's got you on a stand-off, I'd say," Kirby remarked. "My, ain't he the tough one though, horns sticking up an' haired all over! Gentlemen " he had glanced over their shoulder and was watching whatever was there "company comin'. Mind your manners!" Drew looked around. His hand clamped tighter on Boyd, keeping him pinned on his back.
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