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And when he was once more installed beside his faithful zinc-eater he whistled and sang to it, as other workmen did to their own machines sometimes, when things went well. His comrades in the shop glanced at him amusedly now and then. They liked him, and he ate his lunch at noon with a group of Socialists who approved of his ideas and talked of electing him to their association.
Mrs Gildea was smiling amusedly. 'Perhaps.... Something of that sort. Dignity and sweetness, you know those are what I admire in a woman. But not too much of the goddess or of the angel either. I shouldn't want always to have to load up with a pedestal when we shifted camp, and the only shrine I'd keep going for her would be in my heart.
The conductor turned to him first, and when she proffered her four soldi she found that he had paid for both. Her hand shook as she put the money back in her purse, and her colour rose. Filippo, quite at his ease, leisurely, openly observant of her, whistled "Lucia" softly to himself. Roses, roses all the way, and all for him, he thought amusedly.
She leaned back in her chair, and surveyed the baffled man amusedly. The lawyer was furious over the failure of his effort to intimidate this extraordinarily self-possessed young woman, who made a mock of his every thrust. But he was by no means at the end of his resources. "Nevertheless," he rejoined, "you know perfectly well that General Hastings never promised to marry this girl.
I assure you she is a highly respectable lady. She has a heart of gold," I added, irrelevantly "Well, well! You are still in love with her, aren't you?" I was tempted to say: "No. It is you I now love." But I merely said, dolefully: "No. Not any more." She contemplated me amusedly and broke into a soft laugh The next time we were alone in the house I came back to it. I added some details.
"'Their' own you mean Jasper's and hers?" "No indeed. I mean her mother's and Mrs. Allen's; the girl's too of course. They put themselves on us by main force." "Oh yes, I can testify to that. Therefore I'm glad too. We should have missed it, I think." "How seriously you take it!" Mrs. Nettlepoint amusedly cried. "Ah wait a few days!" and I got up to leave her.
Every time they turned, this young woman stared at Honora amusedly. "Nasty thing!" exclaimed Mrs. Tyler, suddenly and unexpectedly in the midst of a description of the delights of life in the metropolis. "Who?" asked Honora. "That young Mrs. Freddy Maitland, sitting on the rail. She's the rudest woman in New York."
"Why I'm glad to know you, Mr. Sternford," he exclaimed. Then a quick, enquiring upward glance of his shrewd eyes suggested recollection. "But say you ain't Sternford of Labrador? The groundwood outfit up at up at " "Sachigo?" "That's it, sure. Guess I'd lost the name a moment." Bull nodded amusedly. "Yes. That's where I hail from. And, as you say, there's big stuff up there, too." "Big?
Later, when the Reverend Henry Dolby entered the Spurlock room, his wife and daughter trailing amusedly behind him, and beheld the strained eagerness on the two young faces, he smiled inwardly and indulgently. Here were the passionate lovers! What their past had been he neither cared nor craved to know.
In mid April of the memorable year 1745, two men, hastening through a busy London thoroughfare, paused for a moment to follow with their eyes a third, whom they had greeted but who had passed without so much as a glance in their direction. The face of one betrayed chagrin; but the other smiled amusedly.
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