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With unsteady hands she put the new-made bowl of coffee and the brioches and other things together upon the tray and started to carry it across the room to the bed, but half-way she turned back again and set the tray down. She looked about and found an empty glass, and she poured a little of the coffee into it. Ste. Marie, who was watching her, gave a sudden cry. "No, no, Mademoiselle, I beg you!
But mind, they must be steady I'll keep no unsteady servants; the first act of drunkenness, with me, is the last. 'I shall also want a second horseman; and here I wouldn't mind a mute boy who could keep his elbows down and never touch the curb; but he must be bred in the line; a huntsman's second horseman is a critical article, and the sporting world must not be put in mourning for Dick Bragg.
They could see, from her look of grieved wonder, that Hastings had told her of the charge against Wilton. The sheriff's expression confirmed the supposition. His mouth hung open, so that the unsteady fingers with which he plucked at his knuckle like chin appeared also to support his fallen jaw. He made a weak-kneed progress from the door to a chair near the screened fireplace.
He played a cruel trick; he insulted you and wronged me by that deceit, and I find it very hard to pardon him." "What! what is that!" and Mr. Bopp looked up with tears still shining in his beard, and intense surprise in every feature of his face. Dolly turned scarlet, and her heart beat fast as she repeated with an unsteady voice, "It was Dick, not I." A cloud swept over Mr.
You'll fight me fight me!" He lifted weakly, balancing himself upon unsteady, weakened legs. Blake, stepping back, found his hand against a glass of water. He seized it advanced a step and cast the contents of the glass full into Schuyler's contorting face.... Schuyler slowly came to himself.
But somehow it seemed a shabby proceeding to leave Hawkesbury in the lurch, besides which, even if I had overcome that scruple, the seat was so high that at the unsteady rate we were going I would run considerable risk by jumping. So I determined to hold on and hope for the best.
I am always horribly frightened at singing before my mother; I cannot bear to distress her accurate ear with my unsteady intonation, and the more I think of it, the colder my hands grow and the hotter my face, the huskier my voice and the flatter my notes; I bungle over accompaniments that I have at my fingers' ends, and forget words I know as well as my alphabet; in short, I feel like a wretch, and I sing like a wretch, and I make wretched all my hearers.
So again, eating your soups with your nose in the plate, is vulgar; it has the appearance of being used to hard work; and of course an unsteady hand. Dignity of Manners. A certain dignity of manners is absolutely necessary, to make even the most-valuable character either respected or respectable in the world.
But Garotte had too much experience of life to be won by a stranger's handsome looks. Muirhead's fair moustache and large blue eyes counted for little there. Crocker and others, masters in the art of judging men, noticed that his eyes were unsteady, and his manner, though genial, seemed hasty. Reggitt summed up their opinion in the phrase, "looks as if he'd bite off more'n he could chaw."
A thick, white bandage was wrapped around his forehead, partially hidden by the slouch hat he wore. The man seemed faint and unsteady on his feet. "I say, Dick," cried David," what has happened? You are hurt. Who " With a rigid grin Dick put his hand to his head. "Braddock," he said succinctly. "You don't mean Tell me what has happened? Wait! Do you require the attention of a surgeon?"
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