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He had had a day of tedious worries, and the sight of the women here in his own home exasperated him almost beyond the point of endurance. "An unexpected pleasure!" he added, with an inflection that was unmistakable. "Oh, we didn't come to see you, Mr. Hamilton," Sadie declared resentfully, in answer to that inflection. "We came to see your wife."
It seemed a sacrilege to use in this way such a high sentiment, so I destroyed the coin. I early took upon myself, mentally at least, many of the cares and worries of those about me. Whether in this I was different from other youngsters who develop a ludicrous, though pathetic, sense of responsibility for the universe, I do not know.
"It's hard work because I've slipped into the habit of being prim and precise, and I had to bend a pin intentionally. Four girls already have warned me about my hair falling down. It worries me a lot and yet it doesn't give the same effect as yours. Does yours feel loose and straggly?" Berta's hand flew to her head. "You sinner! Mine is just as usual."
You don't seem to have as many worries as other people. What's the secret, Polly?" And Fan looked up with wet eyes, and a wistful face at Polly, who was putting little dabs of cologne all over her head. "Well," said Polly, slowly, "I just try to look on the bright side of things; that helps one amazingly.
Kennon chuckled without humor. "Getting sunstroke is the least of my worries, Al," he said, but he allowed Al Crothers to usher him inside. "It's odd that you showed up right now," Al said, his dark face showing the curiosity that filled him. "I just had a call from Message Center not five minutes ago, telling me to have you call in if you showed up." Kennon sighed.
When Susan was particularly "worked up" over something, "jest b'ilin' inside" as she expressed it, she always sang this song her own composition, to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home": "I've taken my worries, an' taken my woes, I have, I have, An' shut 'em up where nobody knows, I have, I have.
The first thing that roused her was the dangerous illness of her brother Clement, the result of blood-poisoning during a mission week in a pestilential locality, after a long course of family worries and overwork in his parish. Low, lingering fever had threatened every organ in turn, till in the early days of January, a fatal time in the family, he was almost despaired of. However, Dr.
In this remote village there are no sights to see, there is no newspaper to intrude the worries of the distant world, there is nothing going on, it is always Sunday.
And just as I'd been to all this bother fagging myself to death about all these things " her tragic gesture swept the disordered room "just as I thought I was going home to enjoy myself, and look nice, and see people again, and have a little pleasure after all our worries " She dropped back on the sofa with another burst of tears. "For all the good this rubbish will do me now!
The first look of relief which had rushed to the young man's face became clouded with a suggestion of chagrin. "But won't people then er talk about me any longer?" "I am afraid I can't prevent that for a little longer." The last of the baronet's worries seemed to disappear. "Ah!" he said complacently. "Well, let them talk about me!" Carrington rose and rang the bell.
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