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Her dimples vanished; her eyes grew pathetic and began to shine rather than to sparkle; her lip quivered just a little. "You're very unkind," she said in an extremely low tone. "I had no idea you would be so unkind." Rhadamanthus seemed very uncomfortable. "Don't do that," he said, quite sharply, fidgeting with the blotting paper. Dolly began to move slowly round the table. Rhadamanthus sat still.
Good-looking chaps, too," The sarcasm escaped Saunders, who was fidgeting uncomfortably. "Of course you know the breaking of the engagement I should say the row, wasn't of my doing," he submitted, pulling at his finger joints nervously. "I'm afraid it can't be patched up, either," said Britt dolefully. "She's been insulted, you see " "Insulted? My eye!
One fine morning the Rat, whose turn it was to go on duty, went upstairs to relieve Badger, whom he found fidgeting to be off and stretch his legs in a long ramble round his wood and down his earths and burrows. "Toad's still in bed," he told the Rat, outside the door.
Presently it was joined by another, and then by a third; and the birds, fidgeting restlessly on their bough, talked together earnestly and low. 'What, ALREADY, said the Rat, strolling up to them. 'What's the hurry? I call it simply ridiculous. 'O, we're not off yet, if that's what you mean, replied the first swallow. 'We're only making plans and arranging things.
Joe looked at him steadily, but very mildly, and did not open his lips. 'Of course I shall pay you what I owe you, said the Lord Mayor elect, fidgeting in his chair. 'You lent me I think it was a shilling or some small coin when we parted company, and that of course I shall pay with good interest. I can pay my way with any man, and always have done.
I could have broken his back with my paddle, and perhaps, by so doing, saved the nestlings of a pair of Maryland yellowthroats fidgeting about near him. He had eaten many a young bird of these bushes, I was sure yet only circumstantially sure. Catching him in the act of robbing a nest would have been different; I should have felt justified then in despatching him.
When the doors of the long passages opened and shut, one heard the rumor of the innumerable creatures that lived in the depths of the "Ark"; the crying of little children, the peculiar fidgeting sound of marred, eccentric individuals, for many a whole life's history unfolded itself within there, undisturbed, never daring the light of day.
I said very little, but he never took his eyes off my face. All the time I was conscious that Lord Robert was fidgeting and playing with a china cow that was on a table near, and just before the butler announced Mrs. Fairfax he dropped it on the floor and broke its tail off. Mrs.
Chebron was silent. His whole affection had been given to his father, for his mother he had comparatively little. As a child he had seldom been allowed to come into the room where she was. She declared that his noise was too much for her, that his talk made her head ache, and that his fidgeting about was too much to be borne. Nor since that time had he been much more with her.
"I hope you are going to stay with us some time now, Ideala," I added, glancing up at her as she came and looked over my shoulder at the picture. Her face clouded. "I I am afraid not," she answered, hesitating, and nervously fidgeting with some paint brushes that lay on a table beside her. "I am afraid you will not want me when you know what I am going to do. I only came back to tell you."
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