The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quotation and mulatto women.
When he might well have acted with boldness, he found himself filled with doubts, scruples and equivocations, in addition to the ordinary fears of a lower.
'George, I'm ashamed of you! George, I couldn't have believed you would have done it! I always knew you to be a rolling stone that gathered no moss; but I never thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet and the children to lie upon,' said Mrs. Bagnet.
It is quite useless to ask whether Vanderbilt was criminally prosecuted or civilly sued by the Government. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later, he carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous conditions.
1. 'O, don't mother! I should like the flowers; do give them to me; I want them!'
'Why, Eva, your room is full now.'
「嗐,妈妈,别这样﹗我喜欢这些花,把花给我吧,我要﹗」
「得了吧,伊娃,你屋里的花都满了。」
2. 'Well, that's odd!' said Marie. 'What in the world do you want that for?'
「哟,真是怪事﹗」玛利说,「你干嘛非要这个不可?」
3. ('...Haley, if you had any conscience.')
'Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep - just a little, you know, to swaer by, as were,' said the trader, jocularly; ...
'Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?' said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy interval of silence.
His delegation agreed with the Executive Director/ that the fund should continue working/ for a better understanding of the interrelationship between economic, social and demographic factors.
To him there is something divine/ in the sympathetic indulgence she substitute / for the angry disgust/ with which one of his own country women resent his supposed conditon.
All the way along the line, from the border right up to Peking, as far as the eye could see, the countryside was literally covered up with a green carpet of growing crops, holding a promise of bumper harvests.