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I saw that Opportunity's having just adopted a different course added very much to her embarrassment, as otherwise she might have said something to lessen the seeming ungraciousness of the refusal. Luckily for herself, however, she had a gentleman to deal with, instead of one in the station that my uncle Ro had voluntarily assumed.
"If you will excuse me now," he said, "I think that I must be getting back. I am an employee at Dowling, Spence & Company's, you know, and my time is not quite my own. I only came because I promised to." "Mr. Tavernake," she begged, looking at him full out of those wonderful blue eyes, "please do me a great favor." "What is it?" he asked with clumsy ungraciousness.
Jerry Morton bringing his fish as usual, looked askance at the two young fellows, taking their ease in the porch hammocks, and received with marked ungraciousness Peggy's suggestion that he should act as their guide to some point where the fishing was good. "I never could get on with swells," said Jerry, with his customary frankness. "Let 'em fish out of your cistern.
Sabatini was silent for a moment. He was a man of few expressions, but he seemed a little disappointed. "Will you do your duty any the less zealously, do you think," he asked, "because you have friends who take an interest in you?" Arnold was suddenly conscious of the ungraciousness of his attitude. "You don't understand!" he exclaimed, a little desperately. "Your world wasn't made for me.
Madame Royaume will know my name. When she hears that I am the son of M. Gaston Mercier, who often speaks of her " "He fell sick here, I think?" the girl said. She scanned him anew with the first show of interest that had escaped her. Yet reluctantly, it seemed; with a kind of ungraciousness hard to explain. "He had the plague in the year M. Chausse, the pastor of St.
Her mother's ungraciousness, made the sense of what they owed him more painful to Elizabeth's mind; and she would, at times, have given anything to be privileged to tell him that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of the family.
"I know there isn't anybody holding me, but but I can't find the way." That any one could be lost within an easy mile of the manor-house was ridiculously incredible to Thomas Jefferson. Yet there was no telling, in the case of a girl. "You want me to show you the way?" he asked, putting all the ungraciousness he could muster into the query. "You might tell me, I should think!
What she concluded was that this girl was trying to get in with them, for reasons of her own. She said: "Yes; it's the first I ever heard of his knowing you. He's so much taken up with his meetings, he didn't want to come to-night." Margaret drew in her lip before she answered, without apparent resentment of the awkwardness or ungraciousness, whichever she found it: "I don't wonder!
He passed the day in dispensing justice among the folk, bidding to graciousness and forbidding ungraciousness and appointing to place and displacing, till day- end, when the Divan broke up, after the goodliest fashion, and all the troops withdrew and each went his own way.
Even his bold venture into the world of men had not enabled him to shake off altogether the influence of his early training, though it had changed him so much for the better; it had not altogether cured Peter of his old ungraciousness, partly inherited, and partly due to example.
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