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He had been standing till now with his hand on the key and the closed door at his back, evidently not intending to admit us; but thus asked, he pushed the door open, and said, somewhat ungraciously: "It is just that, M'sieur Müller a den; not fit for gentlemen like you. But you can go in, if you please." We did not wait for a second invitation, but went in immediately.
"Where is Slowbridge?" he asked in a gloomy voice. "It's a fairly large place near London," his mother told him. "It's near Eton and Windsor and Stoke Poges where Gray wrote his Elegy, which we learned last summer. You remember, don't you?" she asked anxiously, for she wanted Mark to cut a figure with his uncle. "Wolfe liked it," said Mark. "And I like it too," he added ungraciously.
He insisted: he begged her to listen to him for a moment away from the others. She followed him ungraciously. When they were a few yards away so that neither Myrrha nor Ernest could see them, he took her hands and begged her pardon, and knelt at her feet in the dead leaves of the wood.
Alban looked at her. "Well," said Mrs. Rook, "am I to have no answer? Ah, you want leading. So like a man again! Is she pretty?" Still examining the housekeeper with mingled feelings of interest and distrust, Alban answered ungraciously: "Yes." "Good-tempered?" Alban again said "Yes." "So much about herself," Mrs. Rook remarked. "About her family now?"
"You are going in, I suppose?" said he. "No," replied Emma quite confirmed by the depressed manner in which he still spoke "I should like to take another turn. Mr. Perry is not gone." And, after proceeding a few steps, she added "I stopped you ungraciously, just now, Mr. Knightley, and, I am afraid, gave you pain.
He sat indoors and did nothing. It was April by this time, and the London season was beginning; invitations of all kinds poured in upon him, but he refused them all; he would go nowhere. Now and then his mother came to see him and attempted to cheer and to rouse him; she had even asked him to come down to Walpole Lodge, but he had declined her request almost ungraciously.
In twenty minutes they reached the office of the Escaped Nun. He opened the door of the cab and she stepped out nervously, but walked with decision into the building, for which she had the keys. "Anything more, mum?" he said respectfully. "Come right in, and light up for me," she said ungraciously, in a towering rage.
Lively started for the hall at eight o'clock, determined to procure a place at the head of the line. But, early as was the hour, she found the doors already besieged. There were at least three dozen women ahead of her. She took her place very ungraciously at the foot of the line. At nine the doors were opened, and the first comers admitted. Ten o'clock came, and Mrs.
Mark was not old enough to escape tactfully from such a difficult situation, and the only thing he could think of doing was to stay absolutely still in the hope that they would presently go out of the room and never know that he had been behind the curtain while they were talking. "I didn't mean you to dress yourself and come downstairs," his father was saying ungraciously.
Van Antwerp as we left the Missouri, did you not?" "Yes. At least I suppose so." "I wrote again as soon as we got settled here, three days after that, did I not?" "You said you did," replied Mrs. Rayner, ungraciously. "And you, Kate, when you are yourself have been prompt to declare that I say what I mean.
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