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"I don't know; they have told us nothing for some time." "You find them kind of disappointing?" "I believe my father does." The man said nothing for a while, and then looked around again. "Well," he ventured, "it strikes me there's one man Curtis ought to keep his eye on." Gertrude started and Wandle studied her face.
Spanish associations indicated. Wire details and name of best guide, if obtainable. The reply was disappointing: "Cyrus C. Allen absent from town. Will forward your wire. Well poised as Average Jones normally was, he chafed over the ensuing delay of four days, each of which gave the colonel's expedition just so much start upon its unknown course.
"This is a part of the story we've been living that I really know nothing about. I hope it won't be disappointing!" Raynor laughed and shook his head. "It's fortunate that Montani is a gentleman, anxious to shield and protect you. You have a fan in your hand " She spread it for our inspection. "A harmless trinket, but without it the adventure would have been very tame."
His first attempt in literature, an essay on the vain and disappointing nature of human life, he set up and printed off himself in his sixth or seventh year; and the printing-office was in some sort his home, as well as his school, his university.
Because I am sixty-three, and that is too old and too young. Because life is empty and disappointing, and I am tired, and drift like seaweed tossed to and fro by the waves." It sounded indeed enough, and tears would fill her eyes as she said it. The psycho-analyst would listen, passive and sceptical but intelligent. "Not one of your reasons is the correct one.
The visitor finds himself saying what he wants in an apologetic tone, when the woman tells him that they did keep that article once, but do not now; that nobody does, and probably never will again; and as he turns away she looks relieved that the dilemma of having to provide for a stranger has passed off with no worse mishap than disappointing him.
Only there was wrung out of Parson Frank a promise that if he could come in two years with a perfectly unstained, unblotted character, the betrothal might be renewed. We were very thankful for the hope and motive, and Griff had no doubts of himself. 'One can't look at the pretty creature and think of disappointing her, he said.
"He is going to turn over a new leaf;" said Robina: "I am sure he will make an excellent farmer." "I did not want a farmer," I explained; "I wanted a Prime Minister. Children, Robina, are very disappointing. Veronica is all wrong. I like a mischievous child. I like reading stories of mischievous children: they amuse me.
Back to Coronado he went with his story, a disappointing one, since he had seen nothing of either gold, silver, or precious stones, the nearest approach to treasure being the greenish turquoise. The story of the negro pioneer, as afterwards learned, was one that might have fitted the Orient.
She would not have been surprised had she been taken into the dancer's cabin and encountered on common ground; nor surprised had she been taken in and flaunted in prideless arrogance. But to be treated as she had been treated, was unexpected and disappointing. Ergo, she had not caught Freda's point of view. And this was good.
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