Of course, it was open to him to meet that question with blank denial, open to him to lie--as is the practice of the world when such damnably awkward situations come along.
The characters of a book are to my mind damnablylike the tiresome people who keep you wishing them good-night till you wish them at the devil.
Whoever did originate them, they are damnably false.
But the worst of it is that every one around me is so damnably jealous.
And he took up her last book just to see again how damnably clever she was.
It was strange--damnably and most curiously strange!
Across his mind flashed that scene in the prison library when Millman had been plausible before--damnably plausible!
I am sorry too," he said, "damnably sorry for Carlotta and for myself.
I repeat, your father was a very lucky man--a damnably lucky one.
And he had shown himself so damnably tender toward a man fairly advanced within the shadow of the fifties--a man who, if not an acknowledged outcast from the joys of life, would soon be lagging superfluous on their rim.