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"Where is she?" demanded Robin, unimpressed by this glowing panegyric. "At this instant, sir, I fancy she is rallying her forces in the very face of a helpless mirror. In other words, she is preparing for the fray. She is dressing." "The devil! How dare you pry into the secret " "Abhorrent thought! I deduce, nothing more.
Some mysterious element in her regard for them made luncheon an ordeal for them both, although Billy's healthy young eyes saw only an old woman, impotent and alone; the maids were respectful and pitying, and young Charles Gregory, who joined them at luncheon, Was obviously unimpressed by his grandmother's power, but was smitten red and inarticulate at the first glimpse of Billy.
"Oh, there's no need for all that formality," Irwin urged, with a great appearance of bland friendliness. "Just the same," Mary persisted, unimpressed, "I'm quite sure you would better see Mr. Harris first." There was a cadence of insistence in her voice that assured the lawyer as to the futility of further pretense on his part.
Yes, sir, the Prince has had more than one word with me from time to time." King looked at the little man's reddish face and saw therein the signs of exaltation indigenous to a land imperial. He hesitated for an instant and then remarked, with a mean impulse to spoil Hobbs's glorification: "I have dined with the President of the United States." Hobbs was politely unimpressed.
Or, at least, she would make him, as well as the other girl, suffer for the slight he had put upon her. Had she not preened her feathers and strutted her very best on the occasion when he interviewed her at Hoskin & Marl's and taken her out to lunch? And to no end at all! He had been quite unimpressed by Ida May's airs and graces. Yet he would take up with this other girl a mere nobody.
The king himself was by no means unimpressed by this evidence of Dick's wonderful power. He decided that it was a thing to be remembered; but it in nowise troubled him, for it was being exercised in his behalf.
This little incident completed the good influence which the missionary's words and manner had previously commenced. Most of the women began to weep as they listened to the words of love, encouragement, and hope addressed to them. A few of course remained obdurate, though not unimpressed.
Follow him anywhere. Loot." Don Loris quivered. It was horribly plausible. He'd had the scheme of the only stun-weapon-armed force on Darth, himself. He knew his men tended to revere Hoddan because of the plunder his followers seemed always to acquire. Don Loris was in a very, very uncomfortable situation. Bored men from the battered spacecraft stood about his great hall. They were unimpressed.
But she lay curled on the divan, laughing up at him, and perfectly unimpressed by his recovered dignity. "If he's alive, and you know where he is," said Kirby, "I will pay you your price. Name it!" "Beg for him! There is no other price. The House-of-the-Eight-Half- brothers burns! Beg for him!"
The Latin races alone know how to arrange a spectacle in that easy way, how to produce themselves so that nobody could be unimpressed. There was a dramatic pause before them, a hum of excitement after they had passed. Who were they? Evidently the most distinguished persons present the guests of the evening.
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