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"It looks as if that blamed wind had blown suthin' loose in the store," he said affectedly. "I reckon I'll go and see." He hesitated a moment and then disappeared in the passage. Yet even here he stood irresolute, looking at the closed door behind him, and passing his hand over his still flushed face.
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'I must not relent; I am accountable to the doctor and to my brother. 'It shall not be your fault. You shall know nothing of it. I will find my way. Ah! I'm a giddy young thing. Nothing can stop me! and she stepped forward, laughing affectedly, and trying to look arch. 'I cannot permit this.
"That sounds like a description of ME," said she. "Probably," said Victor. "It's a very usual type in the second generation in your class." "My class?" said Jane, somewhat affectedly. "What do you mean?" "The upper class," explained Victor. Jane felt that this was an opportunity for a fine exhibition of her democracy. "I don't like that," said she.
But" with drooping head and affectedly humble and dejected mien "it couldn't be expected to be enough for you, could it?" "Hardly," she looked up at him through her long lashes.
So you have in your hand a racket, A tennis-ball in your cod-placket, A Pandect law in your cap's tippet, And that you have the skill to trip it In a low dance, you will b' allowed The grant of the licentiate's hood. How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language.
Johnson looked a little angry, and said, 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. At another time, when she said, perhaps affectedly, 'I don't like to fly. JOHNSON. 'With your wings, Madam, you must fly: but have a care, there are clippers abroad. How very well was this said, and how fully has experience proved the truth of it!
That evening the Prince Borghese and Princess Pauline nearly fell into the Seine in their carriage while returning to their country house at Neuilly. They spoke affectedly of the ball given by the Prince of Schwartzenberg on the occasion of the espousals, and of the fire which consumed the dancing-hall, and the tragic death of several persons, notably of the sister of the prince.
"There you are now, poor child of man," cried Schwarzenberg, laughing aloud, "so properly reserved and so affectedly modest! A mere woman in her primitive beauty would wound your sense of propriety, and you would not venture to look at her, but a goddess has permission to appear without earthly clothing, and you dare, casting reserve aside, to lift your eyes to her glorious form.
'You be a plaguey pair, you b'ys! was the unfailing greeting of Binks, when he encountered Geoff and Alick Carnegy. 'Come, you shut up, Binks! You surely would not have us a couple of mincing girls peacocking round in this fashion, would you now? And the captain's boys affectedly pirouetted up and down on the shingle below the low wall of the Vicarage garden, laughing boisterously the while.
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