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"That would be paying me too high a compliment," he said. Whereat his three sisters echoed "Compliment!" in various tones of deprecation, and Josephine added a meaning little laugh for her own share, for which Edgar gave her a kiss, and said in a bantering kind of voice, "Now, Joseph! mind what you are about!"
Kleebaum frowned and contorted one side of his face with electrical rapidity. "Say, my friend," the chauffeur replied entirely unmoved, "them gestures don't go down with me. Is this the guy you was telling the boss you would jolly into buying a car, because " Kleebaum turned to Abe and elaborately assumed an expression of amiable deprecation. "That's a salesman for you," he exclaimed.
"I don't think you are bad," answered Margaret, in kind deprecation, yet with a freedom of speech warranted by her years and attachment to Irene. "But you go off in such strange ways get so wrong-headed sometimes that there's no counting on you." Then, growing more serious, she added "The fact is, Miss Irene, you keep me feeling kind of uneasy all the time.
After his death, every act of his at this time, every paper he had signed, would be suspected, and and" stammered the Judge as his imagination pictured what might follow "they might even attack his will!" He advanced truculently. "Do you mean to publish this libel?" Lee moved his shoulders in deprecation. "I'm afraid we must," he said. "You must!" demanded Gaylor. "After what I've told you?
Prescott only wishes to lessen your anxiety, but he's convinced of what he says." It was a rare thing for her to oppose him, but Jernyngham was too preoccupied to be surprised at her boldness, and he made a gesture of deprecation. "You must forgive me, Mr. Prescott my daughter's right. But to offer me assurances that must prove false is rank cruelty.
As for instance, if you were speaking in behalf of some illustrious or gallant man, who has done great services to the republic, you might, without appearing to have recourse to deprecation, still employ it in this manner: "But if, O judges, this man, in return for the services which he has done you, and the zeal which he has displayed in your cause at all times, were now, when he himself is in such peril, to entreat you, in consideration of his many good actions, to pardon this one error, it would only be what is due both to your own character for clemency, and to his virtue, O judges, for you to grant him this indulgence at his request."
Henchard called aloud to him as he went out of the gate, "Here Abel Whittle!" Whittle turned, and ran back a few steps. "Yes, sir," he said, in breathless deprecation, as if he knew what was coming next. "Once more be in time to-morrow morning. You see what's to be done, and you hear what I say, and you know I'm not going to be trifled with any longer." "Yes, sir."
The bill came to eightpence-halfpenny, and a halfpenny for the waiter brought it up to ninepence. Then there was a shower of gratitude on one side and of deprecation on the other, and when courtesies were at their height they suddenly linked arms and swung down the street, tickling each other with lemonade straws as they went.
"Oh, my dear Matt!" said Wade, in deprecation. "Yes. And oh, by the way! I've got hold of a young fellow that I think you could do something for, Wade. Do you happen to remember the article on the defalcation in the Boston Abstract?" "Yes, I do remember that. Didn't it treat the matter, if I recall it, very humanely too humanely, perhaps?" "Perhaps, from one point of view, too humanely.
The mother gave her son a pitiful smile, as if in deprecation of her husband's severity, but said not a word; and James, haunted by the taste of failure the sermon had left in his own mouth, and possibly troubled by sub-conscious motions of self-recognition, could hardly look his father in the face, and felt as if he had been rebuked by him before all the congregation.
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