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"Hang Miss Randal!" and Laurie knocked the hat off his face with a look that left no doubt of his sentiments toward that young lady. "I beg pardon, I thought..." and there she paused diplomatically. "No, you didn't, you knew perfectly well I never cared for anyone but Jo," Laurie said that in his old, impetuous tone, and turned his face away as he spoke.
When I was her age folks used to tell me I had real wonderful hair. You remember that, don't you, Mr. Hammond?" Mr. Hammond chuckled. "I remember lots of things," he observed diplomatically. "You think she's pretty, don't you, Mr. Daniels?" persisted Miss Timpson. East Wellmouth's legal light bowed assent. "A ahem a very striking young lady," he said with dignity.
Miss Jean had prevailed on Tony Hunter and his wife, who had come down on horseback from the San Miguel, to take luncheon with us, and from the hearty greetings which Uncle Lance extended to the guests of his sister, I could see that the owner and mistress of Las Palomas were diplomatically dividing the house of McLeod. I followed suit, making myself agreeable to Mrs.
Direck had, he felt, been diplomatically involved in lanes and by-ways long enough. "Well," he said as he rejoined her after very carefully closing the gate.
She blushed as red as fire, and at last burst into such a paroxysm of weeping, that the old gentleman left her room and went down to the Pastor in his study. "Well, Doctor, what do you think of Rebecca?" "Tell me now, Pastor," began the Doctor, diplomatically, "has your daughter gone through any violent mental crisis hm any " "Temptation, do you mean?" "No, not exactly.
Yet she could not forget what had happened between him and Zita just before the meeting, and, woman-like, she now held aloof. "Eva," pleaded Locke, "won't you trust me? Things are in such a critical state that we must not have any misunderstanding." But Eva merely tossed her pretty head. "I don't care for Zita or her actions," she replied, petulantly. Locke diplomatically changed the subject.
While I looked at him the Spahi suddenly gave a tug at the cord to which he was attached. He moved in nearer to the horse, glanced up at me, held out his hand, and said in a low, musical voice, speaking Arabic: "Give me a cigarette, Sidi." I opened my case and gave him one, at the same time diplomatically handing another to the Spahi.
As a matter of fact, it wasn't two hours before the "Evening Blare" was calling the home of the movie magnate to inquire where he had taken the kidnapped prophet; there was no use trying to deny anything, said the editor, diplomatically, because too many people had seen the prophet transferred to Mr. T-S's automobile.
Maybe ourselves'd go if we were axed! I have a nice bit of salt pork in the house," she continued, "would I give your honours a rasher of it?" Mrs. Coolahan had probably assumed that either Julia was incapably drunk, or had been dismissed without benefit of clergy; at all events she had recognised that diplomatically it was correct to change the conversation.
Toad was watching both of them closely. 'Come along in, and have some lunch, he said, diplomatically, 'and we'll talk it over. We needn't decide anything in a hurry. Of course, I don't really care. I only want to give pleasure to you fellows. "Live for others!" That's my motto in life.
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