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"I wanted to use your mileage book, dear," said Connie sweetly. "How long do you suppose it will be, Mr. Wicker, before Mr. Gooch comes in?" "Any minute now," said Noah, smoothing down his hair with an inky finger. "I I think the clock is a little fast." Then as Connie laughed, he jerked up the top of his desk and disappeared behind it. "Stuffy old place!" said Connie, wandering about the room.
"Beg your pardon," said Hetty, as sweetly as her dilute acetic acid tones permitted, "but did you find that onion on the stairs? There was a hole in the paper bag; and I've just come out to look for it." The young man coughed for half a minute. The interval may have given him the courage to defend his own property.
The Nanticoke answered that he had much to say why death should not be inflicted upon him; that, having heard tones sweeter than those of the mocking-bird, and wishing to see who they were that laughed so merrily, and sung so sweetly, he had approached cautiously for that purpose.
Even Lady Moreham's face relaxed, and her eyes followed them with a wistful expression, as she remarked, sotto voce, "How sweetly they look!" "Sweet, you mean," hinted Mrs. Poinsett at her elbow, with a deferential air, yet decided tone. The other turned with a quick, impatient sigh, and half-resentful manner, but in a moment moved closer and said humbly, "Thank you for the correction!
"As to that," Cassis replied, "I must ask you to contain your curiosity." "Well, it shouldn't be hard to say I don't know." Cassis hoped so devoutly. "To tell the truth," said Mr. Torrington very sweetly, "we don't know the answer ourselves." Richard shot a doubtful glance at him, but the seamed old face betrayed nothing of the purpose it concealed.
She glanced at Rimrock with a quick, radiant smile that revealed more than she knew of her heart; but his face had suddenly gone grim. "Take him out and kill him," he advised vindictively. "That's all the advice I'll give." "No, I don't believe in that," she answered sweetly, "but perhaps our decision can wait."
If you could only have seen how sweetly they played together! Edie has not been half the trouble to-day that she usually is." "It will rest altogether with you, Edith," said Claire, seriously. "In fact, Mr. Jasper proposed that we should take Fanny. I did not give him much encouragement, however." "Have you any objection, dear?" asked Edith. "None.
Aren't you satisfied with what you've done isn't it enough that you make the nights into a hell for me a screaming hell. Sleep? How can I sleep? How can I sleep when " A violent, paroxysm of coughing seized and shook him this way and that. "Tut, tut, tut! You haf a very bad cold there," said Tan Diest sweetly. "You must eat one of these lozenges."
He also accompanied her shopping, and smoked phlegmatically outside the shops; nor could she exhaust his patience. Then the quick girl put this and that together. When they were at home again and her bonnet off, she looked him in the face and said sweetly, "I have got a watch-dog." He smiled, and said nothing. "Why don't you answer?" cried Julia impetuously. "Because least said is soonest mended.
"I can't see it," said Mr. Crewe; "you've got a mind of your own, and you've never been afraid to use it, so far as I know. If you should see that Vane man, just give him a notion of what I'm trying to do." "What are you trying to do?" inquired Victoria, sweetly. "I'm trying to clean up this State politically," said Mr. Crewe, "and I'm going to do it.
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