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He appeared to take himself to pieces, shake them well, and put them together carefully, before he spoke. "Perhaps my language was obscure, or even enigmatical; but I thought you might understand. Forgive me if I have been harsh, Bob, not to say uncivil: I have gone through a good deal, until I hardly know myself.
This was uncivil enough, but Sir Francis did not take it amiss. He sat there for twenty minutes, and even made allusion to their former intimacy at Exeter. "I am quite well aware how happily all that has ended," he said; "at any rate on your side of the question. You have done very well and very wisely.
I only wonder how you could bring yourself to make such a change at your time of life, especially. What an abominable uncivil speech, thought the magpie; she fidgeted upon the branch, drew herself up, and muttered something between her beak about the propriety of people attending to their own concerns.
It was two hours later before they came back. Their voices now seemed more facetious and there was more laughing and joking, Dinky-Dunk and the uncivil civil engineer being the only quiet ones. And then the car engine purred and hummed and they climbed heavily in and lighted cigars and waved hands and were off in a cloud of dust.
That pleases him; well and good. It would not please me; I had rather remain a captain, and feel my dignity, not in my title, but in the services by which it has been won. A beggarly, rascally association of stock-brokers, for aught I know, buy me a company! I don't want to be uncivil, or I would say damn 'em Mr. sir Jack!"
One of nature's gentlemen, he could hardly be uncivil to the lowest of the low. Colonel Milman always dressed well, and the little color he always affected was in harmony with his exuberant figure. It was refreshing to see him occasionally in one's weariness of the dingy prison.
It's not her country," she added, "that makes a woman happy or unhappy." Madame Clairin, Euphemia's sister-in-law, might meanwhile have been supposed to have undertaken the graceful task of making Longmore ashamed of his uncivil jottings about her sex and nation.
When you have said a man of gentle manners; you have said enough." 'The late Mr. Fitzherbert told Mr. Langton that Johnson said to him, "Sir, a man has no more right to SAY an uncivil thing, than to ACT one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down"
"I'm quite used to it, thank you," said Mrs Stumfold. The words were not uncivil, but the tone was dreadfully severe, and Miss Mackenzie felt painfully sure that her hostess was already aware of the card that had been left at Miss Todd's door. Mr Startup was now actively at work. "Lady Griggs's and Miss Fleebody's I know. A great deal of sugar for her ladyship, and Miss Fleebody eats muffin.
This was uncivil; for it had evidently been looked on by Scatterall as unsatisfactory. 'Oh, very well, said that gentleman, now in a state of mild anger only I saw that you had a fine new purse, and I thought you'd wish to have something to put in it. Charley again repeated his offensive mandate; but he did it in a spirit of bravado, in order to maintain his reputation.
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