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"I only know that when they came here ten years ago, I thought her one of the most attractive one of the most charming women I had ever seen." From where he stood, on the hearth-rug of his study, smoking an after-breakfast pipe, he looked down frowning upon his wife, and Mrs. Hooper felt that she had perhaps gone too far.
And the rector was sitting uncomfortably prepared for the visit, not having had his after-breakfast cigar. He had been induced to declare that he was not, and would not be, angry with Fanny; but Mr. Saul was left to such indignation as he thought it incumbent on himself to express. In his opinion, the marriage was impossible, not only because there was no money, but because Mr. Saul was Mr.
The next morning, as the Interviewer took his seat on a bench outside his door, to smoke his after-breakfast cigar, a bright-looking and handsome youth, whose features recalled those of Euthymia so strikingly that one might feel pretty sure he was her brother, took a seat by his side. Presently the two were engaged in conversation.
There was a long pause, during which the two children, Letitia and Arthur, who had listened with open eyes and ears to what was passing among their elders, now, forgetting it all, crept away for their usual half-hour of after-breakfast play in the end window of the dining-room. Christian also took her work, and began thinking of other things.
On the morning of the fifth day after his adventure with Doubler he was sitting on the ranchhouse gallery with Duncan, enjoying an after-breakfast cigar, when he said casually to the latter: "I take it that folks in this country are mighty careless with their weapons." Duncan grinned. "You might call it careless," he returned.
"Why, my dear, I bought them by lamplight! and, besides, it was an auction and I was excited." "Yes," said Barbara, and took a long breath. "I know how that is." Down in town two commercial travelers, one of whom we have met before, took an after-breakfast saunter. "She was coming," said the one we remember, "to New England.
Daniel bid me good-night. As I put out my cigar and went to bed, my mind reverted to the dauntless little Hotspur who had spent the afternoon with me and reversed his mother's wish, thinking, "Oh, if Daniel were more like Billy!" It was always Billy's habit to come and sit with me while I smoked my after-breakfast cigar, but the next morning did not see him enter my room till St.
But now I must be off my hard cot, be dressed and have my cot made up by half-past five; then I breakfast off a piece of bread, washed down with a pint of unsweetened rye coffee innocent of milk, drunk au naturel out of a tin pail. And how I miss my after-breakfast cigar and the Times, as I put my hands upon a fellow-convict's shoulder and march in slow procession to my task.
But he begins to see a thing or two, so he goes off with the French officials, but before we had finished smoking our after-breakfast pipeful he comes back alone now and says: "What do you propose?"
It was now, as I have said, Thursday, the twenty-second of July, a glorious, sunny morning, of the kind which Providence sends occasionally, simply in order to allow the honest smoker to take his after-breakfast pipe under ideal conditions.
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