"Apologetically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the bedroom, caught the last few words. Anxious in furtherance of his plans to improve every opportunity of ingratiating himself in his sister-in-law's good graces he exclaimed apologetically: ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... murmured apologetically. Then she settled back limply in the wide couch and inspected the room, his footsteps noisily clattering down the long hallway to the left. She saw, with some misgiving, that it was purely a man's habitation. Shaw doubtless had built and furnished the big cottage without ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... driven by Jolliffe to declare that Hopkins should take nothing that was not assigned to him. Hopkins, when the decision was made known to him by his master, bit his old lips, and turned round upon his old heel, speechless. "You'll find it's so at all other places," said the squire, apologetically. "Other places!" sneered Hopkins. Where would he find other gardeners like himself? It is hardly necessary to declare that from that moment he resolved that he would abide by no such order. Jolliffe on the next morning informed the squire that the order had been broken, and ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope
... over to him. "I'm cold, Nick," she said, breaking in upon his silence almost apologetically. "Shall ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell
... that was demanded of him. But he was little better off, for, having but a few shillings in his pocket, to pay four pounds was as much out of his power as if it had been four hundred. He determined to appeal to the mercy of his captors. "Not got," he said, apologetically, with a vague idea that by speaking very elementary English he came somehow nearer to French, "That all," he continued, producing his little store and holding it out beseechingly to the official. "Pas assez, not enouf," growled the latter. Quelch ...
— Stories by English Authors: England • Various
... which appeared to be a sort of kitchen, for Mrs. Silvermann had rushed thence with tucked-up sleeves, and sounds of frying still proceeded from it. But Mr. Silvermann was not at home, the small, faded, bewigged creature told him apologetically. Barstein looked curiously round the room, half expecting indications of dentistry or dining. But he saw only a minimum of broken-down furniture, bottomless cane chairs, a wooden table and a cracked mirror, a hanging shelf heaped with ragged books, and a standing cupboard ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... strangest feature of all. I refer to its sound. I had for some time noticed a queer, dripping noise which I had foreborne to mention fearing it might be inside my own head—a devilish legacy of our recent buffeting. You can imagine my relief when Whinney asked apologetically, ...
— The Cruise of the Kawa • Walter E. Traprock
... way an advantage. To Evan, in providing him at once with a commuted family sufficient for his means; to father, among other reasons, by giving him the pleasure of saying, to friends who felt it necessary to visit him in the privacy of his study and be apologetically sympathetic, "I have observed that the first editions of very important books are frequently in two volumes," sending them away wondering what he really meant; to me by saving the rack of argument, the form of evil I most detest, and to their own chubby selves no less, in that neither ...
— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright
... was going into the town," said Roland apologetically, "so I asked him to get me an evening paper. I wanted to see the ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
... Billy Lee who finally interrupted them. "You'll 'scuse me, Gen'l an' Missy Janice," he called, apologetically, from the opening in the hedge, "but Lady Washington dun send me to 'splain dat if she delay de dinner any mo' dat Gen'l Brereton suttinly be late at de cote-martial." And as a second couple made a hurried if reluctant exodus from paradise, ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... Sam apologetically, indicating his passengers. "I told 'em they'd have to walk home, because you were going over ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School • Mabel C. Hawley
... Lordship apologetically to Mrs. Mackintosh, "if we play only for threepenny points. Were I a curate I could play for sixpence, but in my position the stakes are ...
— His Lordship's Leopard - A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts • David Dwight Wells
... only a guess," murmured Mr. Mayhew, apologetically. "You know your young man better than I ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham
... said the proprietor, rising and brushing himself languidly. "Cat hairs," he said apologetically. "Sheddin', I reckon." Then, as he went behind the counter, he inquired: ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... left her father, came upon Locke in the hall, and there they stood talking for a moment, when the butler approached apologetically. ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... know the name of his eldest son. The young man took no notice of Miss Saunt's appeal; he only stared a moment and then on her repeating it quietly turned his back. She was an odd creature: she didn't blush at this; she only said to my mother apologetically, but with the frankest, sweetest amusement: "You don't mind, do you? He's a monster of shyness!" It was as if she were sorry for every one—for Lord Iffield, the victim of a complaint so painful, and for my mother, the object of a trifling ...
— Embarrassments • Henry James
... there was nothing dramatic nor even startling to her. Nor did there seem to be any present danger impending to the man. He did not look like a horse-thief nor a criminal. And he had tried to laugh, half-apologetically, half-bitterly,—the consciousness of a man who had to ask help of a woman at such ...
— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte
... "No, no," she said apologetically, "of course not." Then she added, with nervous volubility, sitting down and tugging at her gloves, "You see, I just ran down from Marysville to take a look at my father's old house on my way to Hymettus. I hope I haven't disturbed you. Perhaps," ...
— The Three Partners • Bret Harte
... am a goose," laughed Winnie apologetically; "but somehow it seemed so strange to see 'Aunt Judith' staring at me from the title-page. Aunt Judith—" and the little girl repeated the name softly, as if those two words held for ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... stood up and glanced apologetically at the other three men. "Sorry. Political announcement, you know. You two go ahead and explain to Mr. Senesin." Then he looked directly at the Prime Portfolio. "I'll tell them you're slightly ill." He reached out, took Lord Senesin's hand, ...
— The Unnecessary Man • Gordon Randall Garrett
... speak to Wullie," he said rather apologetically, to Louis. The old man came out and stood looking at Marcella. He did not seem a ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... bare room, with only a single bed, to which the old man took them. "It's the best I've got," he said, apologetically. "Mr. Grayson, you an' the newspaper man kin sleep in the bed, an' t'other feller, I reckon, kin ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... half apologetically, "you know a ship can't fight all day long without an accident or two." He added, with nautical simplicity and love of cleanliness, "However, the deck will be cleaned and holy-stoned to-morrow, long before ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... startling you," said the other apologetically, while the softer expression danced in for a moment and disorganised the rigid set of the face. "The soft carpet, you know. I'm afraid you didn't hear my tread. I wondered"—he smiled again slightly at the nature of the ...
— Four Weird Tales • Algernon Blackwood
... means that I've chucked poetry. A statesman's life is the life for me; behold Mr. Devenish, the new M.P.—(she holds up her L. hand admonishingly and he laughs apologetically )—no, look ...
— Belinda • A. A. Milne
... bring a message from Rawles, the butler, asking you to come to Mr. Brewster's house at once—if you can, sir—I mean, if you will, sir," Ellis interjected apologetically. Then, with his gaze directed steadily over the heads of the ...
— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon
... things upstairs. Which of the two rooms will I have? They are en suite. I make no choice. It is, I protest, a matter of perfect indifference to me; but one room being infinitely superior to the other, I select it, apologetically. DAUBINET, being more of a Mark Tapley than I am, is quite satisfied with the arrangement, and has almost entirely ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, September 5, 1891 • Various
... don't want ter run down thet air ghostess," said he apologetically. "Fur I reckon a man can't go agen a thin' he sees right ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... said my sister, still in a reproachful manner, while Joe apologetically drew the back of his hand across and across his nose, "you do not yet—though you may not think it—know the case. You may consider that you do, but you do not, Joseph. For you do not know that Uncle Pumblechook, being sensible that for anything ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... the only Sol Cobb in Trumet, fur's I ever heard, and he's well off, sartin. He ought to be; I never heard of him lettin' go of anything he got hold of. Maybe you think I'm talkin' pretty free about your relation, Mrs. Barnes," he added, apologetically. "I hadn't ought to, I suppose, but I've had one or two little dealin's with Sol, one time or 'nother, and I—well, maybe I'm prejudiced. Excuse me, won't you? He may be altogether different with ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Englefield just as we used to go—thirty-five years ago. Let's pretend that we're going to do the same things and see the same people and have the same fun. We're off by ourselves, just you and I, and why shouldn't we? We're the same girls, after all," and she smiled apologetically. ...
— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull
... "It was only right, dear," she said, apologetically. "When my father made his new will, leaving it all to me, I did not think that Lydia, however badly she treated him, should be left absolutely penniless. And you know, Lucian, you agreed that I should share the assurance ...
— The Silent House • Fergus Hume
... he agreed. Mr. Harlan came of a race whose revolutionary notions expired apologetically before the first platitude to cross their path. "We must always bear in mind that women are capable of sacrifice; that women ..." The lavender stocking was withdrawing itself and Mr. Harlan stammered like an orator witnessing a sudden exodus of his audience, "that women are really capable of remarkable ...
— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht
... apologetically, as Varney turned. "I—I 'll just be here, Mr. Varney, you know, if ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... of Foma he stopped short, staring at his face with a serious, searching look. An expression of agitation was clearly depicted on Lubov's face, and she said with dissatisfaction and at the same time apologetically: ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky
... when the young sonneteers at London were all busy. He returned from his embassage in '89; the book was suppressed in '91. Licia was published in '93. The writing of Licia was "rather an effect than a cause of idleness;" he did it "only to try his humor," he says apologetically in the dedicatory addresses. "Whereas my thoughts and some reasons drew me rather to have dealt in causes of greater weight, yet the present jar of this disagreeing age drives me into a fit so melancholy, as I had only ...
— Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Phillis - Licia • Thomas Lodge and Giles Fletcher
... stock of His Majesty's feet that day," said Caspar promptly, "the day he was out on the 'Green.' I can't help measuring people's feet with my eye," he added apologetically to the swallows; "you see, it's my trade, and it is the only ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... a kind of tinglin' in his arm, as if it was asleep, and then he's got to tackle her again. Writin' steady enough now, Jackson!" he cried, joyously. "Let's see." He leaned over and read, "Thomas Jefferson—" The planchette stopped, "My, I didn't go to do that," said Whitwell, apologetically. "You much acquainted with Jefferson's writin's?" he ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... "When Rambon was chef for President Carnot, kings and emperors bestowed upon him decorations. I recall that when he created the Parfait Rambon—ah!—the governor of his Province set aside a day of celebration. Rambon unappreciated—it is to say that genius is unappreciated!" He turned apologetically to Mrs. ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry
... from Australia, sir, but I dunno where was I to send it. Here it is, sir." And he touched his hat apologetically as he handed a ...
— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine
... I am afraid you are wondering at my having pink silk," I said, apologetically, "as I am in mourning; but I have not had time to get a white ...
— Red Hair • Elinor Glyn
... abode of the nicely governed rules of longevity came the atmosphere of some invasive spirit that would make the stake of life the foam on the crest of a charge in a splendid moment; the spirit of Senor Don't Care pausing inquiringly, almost apologetically, as some soldier in dusty khaki might if he had marched into ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... the other. But this time there was a change, and when Lady Oakley arrived with her maid, and her poodle dog, and her ear trumpet, for she was very deaf, she was assigned a room in one of the wings, her hostess telling her apologetically that she had thought it well to put the McPhersons together as they would thus get on better, and she was so anxious for Lady Jane to like Mrs. Archie, the sweetest, most amiable of women. Lady Oakley, who knew that every apartment at Penrhyn was like a palace, cared little ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... can use them! Take Simpson's too." The man who had been shot in the throat looked at him. Of the three wounded men who had been talking, one said: "My leg is all doubled up under me, sergeant." He spoke apologetically. ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... and referred to the fact, half-apologetically, saying that Mr. Schuyler had liked always to see them on her, and she felt privileged to continue to use them, even in ...
— Vicky Van • Carolyn Wells
... water for the mixin's," Whiskers said, proffering his tomato-can of river slush. "Stockyards just above," he added apologetically. "But they say—" ...
— The Red One • Jack London
... answered, apologetically. She, so self-confident and self-possessed, was charmingly shy with this great soldier who had ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... Mr Verloc in a low, choked nasal tone. His attitude suggested aggrieved sulks or a severe headache. The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room. He snuffled apologetically, and added: "I've ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
... so sorry about your beads!" she said, apologetically, when she looked up and saw me astonished, putting the broken pieces ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... apologetically, "isn't it customary? What's the trouble? What's the objection? This is a free country! Whatever is natural is right! Why ...
— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen
... my boys to be neat," he had said once apologetically to Mrs. Devoe, when requesting her to give away his old school suit ...
— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin
... told you," he hurried on, apologetically, "but I couldn't help it. Besides, I want you to understand how utterly I'm your friend. I ask nothing more than to be allowed to help you and Claude in ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King
... for keeping you waiting," he said apologetically. "As your host I should have been here first. That would have been the case had I not been detained at the last moment by an old ...
— My Strangest Case • Guy Boothby
... Mrs. Massereene, laughing apologetically, and blushing a rare delicate pink that would not have disgraced ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... Lieutenant," Malone said. Dead silence fell with great suddenness. Lynch and all the others looked around at Malone, who smiled apologetically. "I don't want to disturb anything," he said. "But I would like to talk to Mike ...
— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett
... Horrocks at length admitted the heir of Queen's Crawley and his bride into the halls of their fathers. He led the way into Sir Pitt's "Library," as it was called, the fumes of tobacco growing stronger as Pitt and Lady Jane approached that apartment, "Sir Pitt ain't very well," Horrocks remarked apologetically and hinted that his master ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... plenty of confidence in your judgment, Doctor," he said apologetically, "but if you don't mind, I'll have Haggerty trail her for a few days. ...
— Poisoned Air • Sterner St. Paul Meek
... rose, not a penny the worse. 'But, monsieur, I thought I was,' he said apologetically; 'I did not know that I had conquered.' Then, giving the body of the Masai a kick, he ejaculated triumphantly, 'Ah, dog of a black savage, ...
— Allan Quatermain • by H. Rider Haggard
... his miserable subordinates words of directest and sharpest rebuke, without anger or the least loss of self-possession, and yet without the least attempt to mitigate their severity. I meditated much upon him. If ever I had occasion to rebuke anybody, I always did it apologetically, unless I happened to be in a flaming passion—and this was my habit, not from any respectable motive of consideration for the person rebuked, but partly because I am timid, and partly because I shrink from giving pain. This man ...
— The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • Mark Rutherford
... more for I can't tell you any more. During the voyage I was near out of my mind, and could have thrown myself overboard, yet I couldn't go to see her, though she is the only person I really care to see. Of course friends are different," he added apologetically. ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore
... said apologetically to Margherita, after this unusual outburst, for Mutio di Costanzo was a ...
— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
... help it," said Severne, apologetically. "I am superstitious—don't like to do business on a Sunday. I would not even shunt at the tables on a Sunday—I ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... Stuart, apologetically, "it's a comic song. I forgot you didn't like comic songs. ...
— Cinderella - And Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... railing of the porch above us, into the court where we were standing, and we barely escaped being drenched with it. A few drops did reach me, and when I expressed my disgust most forcibly, Mrs. Blythe said apologetically, 'Don't blame the poor woman. She has no other place to throw it. The landlord won't provide drains and there is no law to make him do it. And up-stairs, I am going to show you three rooms without windows, where people live and eat and sleep by lamplight, without a ...
— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston
... apologetically begging (as other sons beg money) for time, to gather the material of "Modern Painters," ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood
... disapproval she knew so well. "I am on my way through to the Yellowstone, child. I thought, perhaps, I might pick you up and take you along, but you are so freckled that you are a sight!" Then, as though she recalled the beach supper and the children's invitation, she added, apologetically, "It is very kind, but I am a little out of the ...
— Keineth • Jane D. Abbott
... contact. Watson led the new man back to the cash-book desk, and proceeded to give him an outline of the work. Evan's vision swayed. At first he was unable to formulate an intelligent question. When he began asking Bill said, apologetically: ...
— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen
... thrust itself forward a bit, disclosing an apologetically smiling face, with high check bones that ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... gone she said to the captain apologetically, "Hasn't he wonderful eyes? And I knew he must be quite all right for me to know, or you would never ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... it smells sort o' doctorish," she said, apologetically. "Opening out of the office, so, it's kind o' hard to keep it from getting that queer smell, 'specially when he's always running in to do things to his hands. But, land! his windows are always open, night and day, so it ...
— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond
... wanted ten thousand dollars," he said, almost apologetically. "Why, they never saw ten thousand cents ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips
... say that he called up this afternoon while you were out," very apologetically, with a furtive glance at ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... is probable that the abbe, in his present mood, was sincere; for in a fanatic one must allow for the wildest inconsistencies. The old sergeant, more skeptical than the Acadians, was, at the same time more polite. He hastened to murmur, apologetically: ...
— The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage • Charles G. D. Roberts
... secured for the sick man. He lay upon a small hospital bed, nothing of him visible save his haggard face, with its ill-grown beard. His eyes were watching the door, and he showed some signs of gratification at Jocelyn's entrance. Gant, who was standing over the bed, turned apologetically towards the latter. ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... ain't no milk," replied Dobbs, still more apologetically, at this further demand which he was unable to supply, as if he grieved from his inmost heart thereat. "Mr Jones 'as 'ad the ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
... transparent, because you oughtn't really to know that I've got two pendants," she explained apologetically. "Please forget, and think it's only one. I must put some patter in, like Mr. Thompson always used to do. Ladies and gentleman, you've no doubt heard that the art of conjuring depends upon the quickness of the hand. ...
— For the Sake of the School • Angela Brazil
... recovered herself and was smiling apologetically up at the frightened driver. His horses, startled by the noise and shouting had tried to bolt, and he had had all he could do to hold them in. The result was a slightly heated condition on the part of ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... to-day," Sandy said apologetically. "And if you please, sir, I'll be keeping my hat on. I have just washed my hair, and I want ...
— Sandy • Alice Hegan Rice
... dangerous things to meddle with," he remarked apologetically. "The engines are of one hundred thousand horse-power; and, full as the ship now is of air at the atmospheric pressure, they would drive her irresistibly along the ground and through all obstacles. I must beg that none of you will ...
— The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... those beauties under the bottom now, sir," he said half-apologetically. "Nice morning, though, ain't it? Talking about hanging one's legs over the side, we might lay them up a bit to dry;" and he set the example of stretching his own out on the seat-like thwart, and sitting silently ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... for most of the game in the neighbourhood. And at length, when I had been standing there for about twenty minutes, two pairs of lambent orbs loomed up through the long grass, and Thunder and Juno came wriggling apologetically to my feet, having apparently made their way back to the spot where they had deserted me, and ...
— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood
... he does not tell many lies," said Nuna apologetically. "I think he only does it a little. Then he goes on his knees every night before lying down, and every morning when he rises, ...
— Red Rooney - The Last of the Crew • R.M. Ballantyne
... acknowledged, "Oneness contacts do become tenuous and begin to dissolve." He added, almost apologetically, "However, that offers you no practical ...
— Oneness • James H. Schmitz
... can give them," said Mr. Crawley, apologetically. "A little scholarship is the only fortune that has come in my way, and I endeavour to share ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... you're right," said the old man apologetically. "All I ask is please don't have me yanked up before the Lunacy Board till ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... way?" he would ask apologetically; and the answer was invariably a gracious if curt one: "No—no more than th' cat. Stay wheer yo' are, lad, an' ...
— "Seth" • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... it was this way," he said, beginning a little apologetically. "I was dying for something to read, and I figgered there'd be something on the Mail—newspapers, you know. So I stopped it, and tied up the driver, and found these. And I swear I didn't take anything else—that time. There's twenty ...
— The Country Beyond - A Romance of the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood
... Sneak, you know well enough that I wouldn't do such a thing on purpose, when I was obliged to almost knock out my own brains to do it," said Joe, apologetically. ...
— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones
... and wake up scared," he said to Wally, a little apologetically, before mounting guard. It ...
— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... in the same tongue, "that makes a difference, though I expect it was still on our land, for we have a lot; it is cheap about here." Then after studying a little, he added apologetically, "You mustn't think me strange, but the fact is my daughter hates things to be killed near the house, which is why there's so ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard
... with what I've started to tell you now, Miss Ocky." He glanced at her apologetically. "I'm telling you how I know they were glad to have me. When your mother was dying, Miss Ocky, she had me called in for a word with her. She thanked me for the service I'd given and said she hoped I would always stay with your father as long as he needed me—'which will ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... too busy; this thing has kept me here every hour. It's my child, and one can't neglect his own child, you know—even if it isn't a real one." He laughed apologetically. "See! there's where we took the skiff that day we ran Jackson Glacier. He's harmless enough now. You annoyed me dreadfully that morning, Eliza, and—I've never quite understood ...
— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach
... stood the farmhouse; and the Earl apologetically asked if she would dislike their proceeding thither, as he would not detain her long. She eagerly declared that Louis would be 'so glad,' and Lord Ormersfield turned his steps to the door, where he had only been once in his life, when he ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... religion enough to have some idea of why it is allowed its rights and why it must respect the rights of others. And the rest of its education must consist of anything else it can pick up; for beyond this society cannot go with any certainty, and indeed can only go this far rather apologetically and provisionally, as doing the best it can on very ...
— A Treatise on Parents and Children • George Bernard Shaw
... minute. "I've always been land-poor," he explained apologetically. "Never kept much of a reserve working- capital for emergencies, you know. Whenever I had idle money, I put it into timber in the San Hedrin watershed, because I realized that some day the railroad would build in ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... kindly. You see there's only enough for one," said Debby apologetically. "To-morrow there may be more. Besides you were never as clever with your needle as your pen. You always used to lose marks for needlework, and don't you remember how you herring-boned the tucks of those petticoats instead ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... be able to tell you a lot more," he said apologetically in conclusion. "I could if I wasn't ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... He grinned apologetically for this strange idea, but Purvis nodded with perfect sympathy, and then turned his horse up the canyon. The sheriff rode home whistling. On ten thousand dollars more he would be able to retire ...
— The Untamed • Max Brand
... sorry, you fellows," he said apologetically, "that you should have been alarmed in this way, because I can assure you that my tame cobra, 'Maharaja,' is quite harmless—look at him now," and we saw that the horrid reptile had swung round the instant its master had entered, and was sliding towards his feet. "He's a pet of mine—I ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... smiled whimsically. "It is my way," he said apologetically. "Nature has made me expectant, and life, whilst showing me the folly of it, has not yet ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... said the Idiot, apologetically. "Excuse me, my dear Mrs. Pedagog. I thought from its resistance that it was fried sole. Have you a hatchet handy?" he added, ...
— The Idiot • John Kendrick Bangs
... Howe, with an indignant splutter, "you don't understand these things my dear,—you're young yet, Helen. They were wrong through and through; so don't be absurd." Then turning half apologetically to John Ward, he added, "You'll have to keep this child's ideas in order; I'm sure she never heard such sentiments from me. Mr. Ward will think you haven't been well brought up, Helen. Principle? Twaddle! their pockets were what they thought of. All ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... ladies in the course of my life," said he half apologetically. "The other day, a brother officer finding me fooling about Pall Mall insisted on my lunching with him at the Carlton. He had a party. I sat next to a Mrs. Tankerville, who I ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
... night,' he explained half apologetically to Longstreet as he went. 'And haven't walked ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... valuable Close had departed as softly and apologetically as he had entered, Wentworth picked up one of the specimens of spar which Kenyon had taken from the mine, and put it into his pocket. In two minutes more he was in a cab, dashing through the crowded streets towards Melville's office. By the side of the door ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... said the squire apologetically, "only he is a little impetuous about getting into a house." Then, seeing that Mrs. Goddard looked at the enormous animal with some interest and much wonder, he added, "he is a Russian bloodhound—perhaps ...
— A Tale of a Lonely Parish • F. Marion Crawford
... appreciatively. Sick as he was, he realized the gameness of Billy Louise; what he failed to realize was the gameness of himself. "I'm a pretty worthless specimen, right now," he said apologetically. "But I'm yours to command, ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... you in the larder," explained Box apologetically, as he steered his guest through a forest of struts with an electric torch. "At least, I think it's the larder: it has a sort of meaty smell. The General is in the dairy—a lovely little suite, with white tiles. The Brigade Major has the scullery: it has ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... I'm not disturbing you, Mr. Guion," the visitor said, apologetically, with a glance at the letters ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King
... quite happy and pleased with herself under this resolution, but it was late before she could put it in practice. The lady at Kensington rather started on entering the room where she had been waiting nearly an hour. 'I thought—' she said, apologetically, 'Did my servant ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... confusion increased. He recognised that his delay in answering only made the answer more difficult to give. It could not be evaded. He blurted out the truth apologetically. ...
— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason
... hadn't joined the Red Cross already, I'd join now," said Tom, apologetically, displaying his button. "A girl in our office got me ...
— Tom Slade on a Transport • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... Vilhelm, the scholar who is still dreaming of uncompromised ideals. But it is not the final word. This comes from Olof, and takes the form of a brief apostrophe to the fleeing Vilhelm, which I think ranks with the finest passages produced by Strindberg. Apologetically, I offer this English version of it as a fitting close ...
— Master Olof - A Drama in Five Acts • August Strindberg
... into our bathing suits just as fast as we can," said Frank. "That is, if our visitors don't mind seeing a crazy race," he added, half-apologetically; for he remembered his manners just in the ...
— The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island - Or, A Cave and What It Contained • Laura Lee Hope
... only look apologetically sensible of being very much in her own way and in everybody else's. Some passing idea of living, fireproof, up a good many stairs in Furnival's Inn for the rest of her life, was the only thing in the nature of a ...
— The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens
... your companions and mine will excuse us for a moment...." He smiled around the seated group apologetically. There was a murmur of assent, and the old man opened a door in the other ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... ferry-house, I put my foot on the grass, and I thought, 'This is Virginia!' It was as if I had stepped on some place where a murder had been done. I was as silly as a half-witted person," blushing apologetically. "I have had great kindness done to me in ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various
... object to my company home, will you?" he asked at once; "I thought you might be lonesome, and as I have not had a chance to talk to you since you came to Boston, I decided to go up with you. I can come back on the night train," he added rather apologetically, "or if you prefer to ride alone, I can get off at ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn
... po-ah Tommies," said Copper, apologetically, to the prisoner. "Po-ah unedicated Khakis. They don't know what they're fightin' for. They're lookin' for what the diseased, lying, drinkin' white stuff that they come from is sayin' ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... hack, and was by no means in a good humour. Dick Roby's wine was no doubt good, but he was not prepared to purchase it at such a price as this. "Things always get confused when you have waited an hour for any one," he said. "What can one do, you know, when the House is sitting?" said the lady apologetically. "Of course you lords can get away, but then you have nothing to do." Lord Mongrober grunted, meaning to imply by his grunt that any one would be very much mistaken who supposed that he had any work to do because he was a peer ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope
... approval. He never disturbed himself, either, in examining my orders until it was entirely convenient for him; so that orders which I had prepared would often lie there three or four days before he would sanction them. I remonstrated against this in writing, and the Secretary apologetically restored me to my rightful position of General-in-Chief of the Army. But he soon lapsed again and took ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... one of the men interrupted apologetically, "but did he learn Russian all by himself, or has it been established that ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... concerned about was his welfare and comfort during the journey. With much solicitude Tiahuana enquired whether it would please him to walk or to be carried in the litter. "We would have brought your horse with us for your use, Lord," the High Priest explained apologetically, "but much of the road before us is impassable for horses or mules—nay, even a llama ...
— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood
... morning," I remarked apologetically, "and I see that I am putting you to some trouble. In future, if you will have me called, I will take my meals at the usual ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... pity him," said Mr. Punch to Father TIME, as the pair passed away from the Lunar precincts together, bowing courteously, and a little apologetically, to 'ARRY's late hostess, who called off her dogs, and affably responded to their parting salutation. "Fact is," pursued the Sage, "my young friend 'ARRY, though smart and fin de siecle, in his way, is a little of 'the earth, earthy,' and lacks both the ...
— Punch Among the Planets • Various
... up till now, been held in abeyance by Merelli, who had foreseen difficulty. And, now that it was reached, it proved a reef indeed. For, of the four singers, only the basso had any conception of time. Thus when Merelli, in despair, came apologetically to Ivan to suggest an alteration of the rhythm—which made the whole beauty of the song—Ivan rose from his place swearing, savagely, that not one other note in the score should be altered; but that Merelli and his whole troupe might go to perdition when and how they chose; ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... he is very sorry," went on Oku apologetically, "but will hurry quick as can. He say for you to wait till he come and he tell me to say many time, ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... gave him one for himself; but he ain't damaged him much," Joe hastened to add apologetically, "for Jack Tiller knows his dooty better than that, your honour. No, he's only put one ...
— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng
... officers had been killed, and most of them wounded, before the retreat began, sahib," one of the sepoys said apologetically, "and they were ...
— On the Irrawaddy - A Story of the First Burmese War • G. A. Henty
... "Chief," he spoke half-apologetically as man to man, "you see Jean—" he indicated his aunt with a tilt of his head—"Jean doesn't like to kiss strange men—but I don't mind." And before anyone realized what was happening, the boy had taken Kilbuck's face between two ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby
... express something like this to Dunkie last night, somewhat apologetically, he looked at me with an odd light in his somber old Scotch ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer
... say." "Well, what else did you want? That is a good deal more than a good many white men get up here." The man stood for a moment busy with his fingers in a fruitless attempt to find the fugitive ends of a curl of his hair, temporarily nonplussed at his palliating concessions, half apologetically said: "Well, I think it a heap best to be free." Then suddenly and gallantly strengthening his defense; "but, look here, Mister, if you think it so nice down there, my place is still open." The questioner good naturedly joined in ...
— Shadow and Light - An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century • Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
... stuff," he said apologetically, "and I never drank spirits without water before. I had a glass of grog-and-water on board a ship sometimes, but it has always been at least two parts of water to ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... I work hard at my job, you know," he said apologetically—"when there's one for me to do. And when there isn't I kind of prepare myself for the next. For instance I've got to ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... head. "It is that I see so many faces each year," he replied apologetically, "that it is not possible to remember;" and he gazed earnestly into ...
— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous
... door somebody leapt from a cab carrying something in his hands, and jostled against him. He turned round apologetically, and confronted the Earl ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various
... he would seem profoundly unconscious that anything was expected of him, but after looking at the audience, then at his own clothes, and then apologetically at his panorama, he began to ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb
... Patty, rather apologetically; "but I can't help it, Elise. I seem to be made that way. When I like anything, you know, I enjoy it just as much as I possibly can, and that's ...
— Patty in Paris • Carolyn Wells
... others elect to amuse themselves about the camp, cutting small timber with their little hatchets, picking fresh browse, or skirmishing the mountain side for wintergreen berries and sassafras. The fishermen return in a couple of hours, with a score of fair-sized trout. They remark apologetically that it is blazing hot—and there are plenty of trout ahead. Then they lean their rods against the shanty, and lounge on the ...
— Woodcraft • George W. Sears
... said the Industrialist, apologetically, "but I think I had better take care of her. Will you ...
— Youth • Isaac Asimov
... a verse," the boy smiled apologetically, "but up at school we call it a poem. It was about the war. And Eva Hardy has had an essay published somewhere and got two ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett
... stammered Bjerregrav. "I am not so poor that I need much, and there is no one who stands near to me. No living person loses anything because I follow those who die. And then I know them all, and I've followed them all in thought since they were born," he added apologetically. ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... am rather big," said Claudius apologetically, not catching the American idiom. Mr. Barker, however, did not explain himself, for he ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford |
