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"Do you have many visitors come to Guernsey late in the autumn, as late as October?" she inquired. "Not many," I answered; "a few may arrive who intend to winter here." "A dear young friend of mine came here last autumn," she said, "alone, as I am, and I've been wondering, ever since I've been here, however she would get along among such a set of stiff, formal, stand-offish folks.
He could almost pose for a collar ad, with that straight nose and clean cut chin of his. But he's a bit stiff and stand-offish, at first. "Oh, he'll get over that," says Vee. "You see, he comes from some little place down in Georgia where the social set is limited to three families and he isn't quite sure whether we know who our grandfathers were."
Oh, long before I come. The old man made him foreman pretty near a year ago in place of Bloss, who run the outfit for Stratton, that fellow who was killed in the war that old Thorne bought the ranch off from." "What sort of a man was this Thorne?" Buck presently inquired. "Pretty decent, though kinda stand-offish with us fellows.
They selected this spot for their work. The light was different from the open. Somehow everything seemed changed. Messages were harder to read. It was fine practice. "I'm glad you thought of that," Don said on the way home. Tim's stiffness melted a little. It was hard to be stand-offish with a boy who kept praising your judgment.
And Cochrane, who always seemed on board the boat to be a rather stand-offish, narrow sort of man! Look at his courage, and his unselfish indignation when any one is ill used. Fardet, too, is as brave as a lion. I think misfortune has done us all good." Sadie sighed.
She was a frivolous, light-minded girl. She was a bad influence for Arthur. Yet, when it came time for the "crowd" to disperse and Arthur told her good night as though nothing had happened, Missy deemed it only consistent with dignity to maintain extreme reserve. "Oh, fudge, Missy! Don't be so stand-offish!"
When he's allowed to put it round 'er waist whenever he wishes, he won't want to do it. She's artful enough to know that, and that's why they are all so stand-offish until the thing is settled. She'll move forward 'arf an inch presently, and 'arf a minute arterwards she'll lean back agin without thinking. She's a nice-looking gal, and what she can see in a tailor's dummy like that, I can't think."
Because I knew if I told you I should have no chance with a girl like you. I knew it'd be all up if I so much as breathed a hint of it! I don't suppose you've the slightest idea how stand-offish you are!" "Me stand-offish!" she protested. "Look here!" he said persuasively. "Supposing I'd told you I wanted you, and then that I'd got a wife living what would you have said?" "I don't know." "No!
"Did you ever hear Captain Lloyd and Major Goddard quarreling?" "No, sir; I never did." "Did they seem to be on good terms all the time, Mrs. Lane?" with emphasis. "Yes. They were the best of friends. Several of my boarders spoke to me of it. Captain Lloyd was so stand-offish and morose that they could not understand Major Goddard's affection for him."
"She's a dear old lady, Beryl. I feel sorry for her." "Oh, yes, dear enough. I thought she was stand-offish. But you don't think for a moment she belongs 'round here, in the same town with that old cheese down at the store?" Robin admitted that everything about her House of Rushing Waters was very different from the Forgotten Village.
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