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"No doubt of it," assented Cooper, urbanely, "but I've a partner, you know. I'm not free in making loans. And even if you had the best security in your hands, Merwin, we couldn't accommodate you in less than a week. We're just making a shipment of $15,000 to Myer Brothers in Rockdell, to buy cotton with. It goes down on the narrow-gauge to-night. That leaves our cash quite short at present.
Hours of Consultation, from 8 A.M. to 9 o'clock P.M. We urbanely informed the lady with the "Caul on her Face" that we had called to have our fortune told, and she said, "Hand out your money." Wherein our constitution was not slim, so it came down on to us from our mother's side. "Is this so?" And we said it was. "Yes," continued the witch, "I know'd 'twas.
Your husband does not take so great an interest in the fate of Claridge Pasha as yourself, madame." She ignored the insult. She had determined to endure everything, if she might but induce this man to do the thing that could be done if it was not too late. Before she could frame a reply, he said urbanely: "But that is not to be expected.
"You asked me the other day whether I would take a certain amount of the stock and bonds of the Grenoble Light and Power Company, in which you are interested, and which is, I believe, to supply the town with electric light, the present source being inadequate." "So I did," replied Mr. Simpson, urbanely, "and I believe the investment to be a good one.
For a full minute the polishing continued, then face and figure vanished, and Reynolds was left staring in impotent rage at the empty port-hole. When the room steward appeared in answer to an imperative summons, he was directed to send Tsang Foo to room No. 7 at once. Tsang came almost immediately, bearing tea and anchovy sandwiches, which he urbanely placed on a camp-stool.
Carroll replied to Lee, urbanely: "Fine," he said, "fine. How are you, Mr. Lee?" "Seems to me you are not looking quite up to the mark," Lee remarked, surveying him with friendly solicitude. The little barber had returned to Amidon in the chair, and was carefully scraping his cheek with the razor. "Then my looks belie me," Carroll replied, smiling.
It was not till "nammet"-time, about three o-clock, that Tess raised her eyes and gave a momentary glance round. She felt but little surprise at seeing that Alec d'Urberville had come back, and was standing under the hedge by the gate. He had seen her lift her eyes, and waved his hand urbanely to her, while he blew her a kiss. It meant that their quarrel was over.
"No, no, my lord," she answered quietly; "what should one poor unfriended girl do in contest with the Earl of Leicester? But yet, in very truth, I have friends, and in my hour of greatest need I shall go seeking." She was thinking of the Queen. He guessed her thought. "You will not be so mad," he said urbanely again. "Of what can you complain to the Queen?
As Colwyn looked in his direction their eyes met, and the portly gentleman nodded portentously in the direction of the alcove table, as an indication that he also had been watching the curious behaviour of the occupant. A moment afterwards he got up and walked across to the pillar against which Colwyn's table was placed. "Will you permit me to take a seat at your table?" he remarked urbanely.
The one-eyed cuirassier said judicially: "That cannot be refused." The other veteran remarked: "It's awkward all the same." "Owing to the state of the people's minds in this part of the country there was no one I could trust with the object of your presence here," explained General D'Hubert urbanely. They saluted, looked round, and remarked both together: "Poor ground." "It's unfit."
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