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"It's ridiculous to be so stand-offish," he maintained. "Don't let 'em think you're afraid of 'em! Come anyway to the moonlight picnic at Khanmulla on Christmas Eve! It's going to be no end of a game." Stella smiled a little. "Do you know, Tommy, I think I'd rather go to bed?" "Absurd!" declared Tommy. "You used to be much more sporting." "I wasn't a widow in those days," Stella said. "What rot!
You cannot approach the person to whom we are alluding as you can either of our others. Rather stand-offish, even now after nearly eight years that he has been with us. Between you and me and the bedpost, Mr. Lovegrove, I am just a wee bit nervous of that person. So if you could hint, quite in confidence, what his plans may be for the future it would' be really friendly." "Dear me, dear me! Plans?
The fellows are so stand-offish." "You mustn't think so, Mr. Chunerbutty. They aren't really. You know Englishmen as a rule are not expansive. They often seem unfriendly when they don't mean to be." "Oh, they mean it right enough here," replied the Hindu bitterly. "They all think they're better than I am, just because I am an Indian.
Bob pointed out that there was not so much luck about it as Mr. Moss appeared to think. "Never seen such a stand-offish little rip in all my life," he moodily concluded. "What, isn't she ?" Bob understood the unvoiced question. "Won't even let a chap have two minutes' talk with her," he said, "let alone anything else." Mr. Moss stretched himself along the sofa; rejoined: "Oh, rats! Rats!
"Who is Edgar?" "Oh, I thought the Staff Captain would have told you. Edgar is the swan the last of his race, I'm afraid, so far as this place is concerned. He lives on the lake, and usually comes ashore to draw his rations about lunch-time. He is inclined to be stand-offish on one side, as he has only one eye; but he is most affable on the other. Well, now to find our horses!"
"And I sometimes question, Mrs. Lovegrove, whether a certain gentleman, now that he has cut himself adrift from her, may not be beginning to find that out and wish he had been less stand-offish and stony. Not that it would be any use now. For, if he did not appreciate Peachie Porcher, there are other and younger gentlemen, not a thousand miles from here, who do.
Fenn," she said "my foreign bringing up, perhaps but I hate being touched." "Oh, come!" he remonstrated. "No need to be so stand-offish." He tried to hold her hand, an attempt which she skilfully frustrated. "Really," she insisted earnestly, "this sort of thing does not amuse me. I avoid it even amongst my own friends." "Am I not a friend?" he demanded.
I can't stand this hail-fellow-well-met attitude in these U.C. boats, from any lout dressed in an officer's uniform. They wouldn't be holding commissions if it wasn't for the war, and they should remember that fact. I suppose they think I'm stand-offish. Well, if they had my family tree behind them they would understand. We dived to sixty feet, and then came up to twenty.
"It will do good! Didn't I tell you there was missionary work to be done right here? Is that why you've been so stand-offish with me the last few years, because you thought I was an atheist?" "I never, you know, liked Ernest Havel," she murmured. When Claude left the mill and started homeward he felt that he had found something which would help him through the summer.
Then at last Pelle made up his mind to go clattering down the stairs to the third story, and along the gallery. "Why have you been so stand-offish to-day?" said Madam Johnsen, making room for him. "You know you are always very welcome. What are all these preliminaries for?" "Pelle is short-sighted; he can't see as far as this," said Hanne, tossing her head.
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