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"Spare me these arguments, Monsieur," she cried, recovering her spirit. "The 'whys' and 'wherefores' of it are nothing to me. I see what you are doing, and that is enough. But," and her voice grew gentle and pleading, her hands were held out to him, "you are good at heart, Monsieur; you are generous and you can be noble.
She reflected that it was in these very rooms that Charlie Perigal had read her piteous little letters from London, and from where he probably penned his lying replies. Mavis would have liked to have been alone so that she could try to appreciate the whys and wherefores of the most significant events in her life.
It is true, as the poet said, that one fire burns out another's burning or at any rate that one pain is deadened by another anguish and it was a Godsend to Granny Marrable and Ruth Thrale that an acupression of immediate anxiety should come to counteract their bewilderment, and to extinguish for the time the conflagration of a thousand questions whys, whens, and wherefores innumerable in their overburdened minds.
They're not sailing till Wednesday, and as they've a suite engaged, the best on the ship, Mrs. Ess Kay says, your going won't put them out a bit, and they'll love having you. As for the whys and wherefores, Mother's been telling you, hasn't she?" "She talked about my health and valuable experiences, and a lot of things in the air, but I feel there's something behind it, and I hate mysteries "
That was all, absolutely all, except that occasionally they sent him out to do an errand, or let him copy a wordy contract with a great many whereases and wherefores. For just at this time the principal labour of the office was in checking over the estimates on the Western tract.
That came simply from the fact that it was impossible for him to go on living in Kinder any longer he did not stop to analyse the whys and wherefores. But suddenly a nervous horror of seeing anyone he knew, now that the morning was advancing, startled him from his hiding-place. He ran up towards the Scout again, so as to make a long circuit round the Wigsons' farm.
They, quite as should be in this land of novelty, were unlike the men she had known. With each passing hour Helen came to see this more clearly. She was a bright young woman, alert and with at least a modicum of scientific mental attitude inherited from the machinery of her father's brain. Like any other healthy young animal, she wanted to know whys and wherefores and the like.
I a palavered her over. I a ferretted and a feagued and a worked and a wormed it all out of she. Your name is up! You may go to bed! Do you mind me? You may go to bed to twenty thousand pounds! It is as good as all your own. I am a to find the kole: that is, I first havin and holdin the wherewithalls, and the whys, and the wherefores.
Just one half hour with her face to face. Then, shut the door and, good-bye! What was there to fear? He could control himself. But after all these weeks, after their conversation of the night before, to go away without a word would be discourteous unkind even almost a confession to her of the whys and wherefores of what he had done. He had a book of hers which he had promised to return.
But that's the way with things; folks never turn out to be as bad as you thought they were when you get to know their whys and their wherefores; and many a poor soul as is put down as worldly is really only anxious to make things pleasant for the master and the children." "Miss Elisabeth's mourning is handsome, I don't deny," said Mrs.
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