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Updated: May 20, 2025
'No worse for our little outing, Mr Burns, I am glad to see. Mrs Ford, I must apologize for my apparent unpunctuality, but I was not really behind time. I have been waiting in the bushes. I thought it just possible that you might have brought unwelcome members of the police force with you, and I have been scouting, as it were, before making my advance.
'A mistake is impossible; the man has driven to meet us here before. Shall we walk on? They proceeded slowly, stopping from time to time. Harvey was puzzled by this unpunctuality; it would soon be a quarter to two. He began to feel hungry, and his companion looked tired. Of a sudden they heard the sound of a vehicle approaching behind them. 'It can't be Alma. She wouldn't have gone farther than
In nine cases out of ten there is really no need for such frantic hurry. Even express trains take their time about it whenever they do stop, and ordinary trains have a reputation for slowness and unpunctuality to which they seldom fail to live up. But, as if to make up for the long hours of patient waiting, the struggling and the shouting go on crescendo till the train is at last under way again.
If you have not been here before, let me give you a word of warning, or you will commit the dreadful sin of unpunctuality. Every clock on the place, from the loud-voiced one over the stables to the tiniest of continental masterpieces, is kept half an hour fast.
"I'm so glad you think so." She glanced at the clock. "Good Lord! I'm a minute late. He's outside. I loathe unpunctuality. So long, Tony." She waved a careless farewell and strode out.
Not only the service was superb, but Marietta herself was attired in a costume which shamed the shabbiness of her high- born mistress. Begging the countess's pardon for her unpunctuality, the maid proceeded to pour out the chocolate, which she handed in a cup of Sevras porcelain. Lucretia rubbed her eyes. "Where, in the name of Aladdin, did you get that dress? And where this service?"
Bridget had a shrewd suspicion, which she confided to Colin, that Lady Tallant was getting tired of her. Perhaps Bridget did not keep herself sufficiently in the background to please the lady of Government House. Her unpunctuality too often annoyed Sir Luke.
It amused him that at his age he should still fear the silent rebuke with which his uncle punished unpunctuality. He arrived at his destination as a near-by church clock struck the half-hour.
May I slip into my place in form behind you?" "If you like," said, Bessie. They entered the great schoolhouse, turned down a long corridor, deposited their hats and jackets on the pegs provided for the purpose, and went into the schoolroom just when the pupils were filing into their different classes. Both girls had marks against their names for unpunctuality.
Bob was expected to be back to dinner and, thanks to the foreman who knew that his employer would not tolerate the smallest unpunctuality he always succeeded in getting back in time to wash and change his clothes for dinner. The meal was a very solemn one, Mr. Bale asking occasional questions, to which Bob returned brief answers.
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