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From the Granville cabin a gun roared loudly; and an Indian, clawing at his bloody breast, shot up in the heart of a clump of bushes and pitched forward on his face. "Lawdy! But the Englisher must 'a' used 'bout a pint o' buckshot!" exclaimed Cousin admiringly. "Pretty smart, too!
On her bosom she wore a magnificent cluster of natural orange-blossoms; and of these, while I gazed admiringly at her, I first spoke: "You look like a bride, Zara! You have all the outward signs of one white satin, pearls, and orange-blossoms!" She smiled. "They are the first cluster that has come out in our conservatory," she said; "and I could not resist them.
'Dear Madam, says he, 'Havin' loved you all my life, I fain would gaze on you onct more. In that case, says he, 'the clouds certainly would roll away!" "That shorely would fetch her," said Curly, admiringly, "but how you goin' to fix it?" "Why, how? There ain't but one way. The dyin' man has his dear friend Curly, or Tom Osby, or some one, write his last words for him.
"I'll be Sophia, with John and Mary for my sheep, and Malcolm can be Moses and wear Annie's hat with the feather in it." The Gordons all laughed again. "And who'll be the Squire?" asked little Mary, gazing admiringly at her wonderful sister. "Mr. Coulson would do, wouldn't he?"
I listened admiringly to his plans; and with an involuntary flattery which won his good-will, I envied him the estate and its outlook a terrestrial paradise, I called it, far superior to Frapesle. "Frapesle," I said, "is a massive piece of plate, but Clochegourde is a jewel-case of gems," a speech which he often quoted, giving credit to its author.
I set fire to my hair in the effort to decipher the well-filled ball card, but we put it out, and the candle also, and chatted in bed. "You must have danced every dance," I said, admiringly. "We sat out one or two that are down," said Eleanor; "and No. 21 was supper, but I danced all the rest." "There was one man you danced several times with," I said, "but I couldn't make out his name.
"I wonder why you dressed yourself as you did last night?" said he. The suddenness of the words did not cause her to quail as the guilty wife quails yes, under a properly managed lime-light. She did not even color. But then, of course, she was not a guilty wife. She lay back on her chair and laughed. He watched her not eagerly, but pleasantly, admiringly.
With these he struck the slabs in rapid succession. Out rolled four notes of astonishing volume the first four notes of the musical scale. Again and again he ran them over, then stopped. The deep tones thrummed away along the creek and died. "By George! a big xylophone!" Knowlton exclaimed, admiringly. "It sure talks right out loud," said Tim. "Lot o' class to these guys, at that.
"Your majesty has hated me intensely, I suppose?" he asked, in a low voice. "Oh, do not deny it; I have been portrayed to you in very repulsive colors?" Ludovica looked at him admiringly. "I must confess, sire," she said, "that not one of the portraits of your majesty which I have seen, is like you."
I don't want to lose my head it's rather a nice one sound and reliable and all that." He sat back in his chair with a laugh. "You're very clever," he told her admiringly. "I always seem to be out-flanked in the end.
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