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'Oh, I, said M. Vandeloup, airily; 'I am going to the Wattle Tree Hotel to see my friend Pierre off to Melbourne. Then he exerted himself to amuse Kitty as they walked down to town, and succeeded so well that by the time they reached Lydiard Street, where Kitty left him to go up to Black Hill, she was laughing as merrily as possible.
'You fool! I cried at last, 'you fool! And then M. de Cocheforet, who had come out of the hut and taken his stand at my elbow, interrupted me. 'Pardon me one moment, he said, airily, looking at the Lieutenant with raised eyebrows and pointing to me with his thumb, 'but I am puzzled between you. This gentleman's name? Is it de Berault or de Barthe?
Therefore Barnabas shook his head, and answered airily enough: "We are not exactly acquainted, madam."
"Yessir, I just been sneaking it in the back way. Welcome home, mum," said the maid, and shut the door from the other side. Mother suddenly crumpled, burrowed her head against Father's shoulder and sobbed: "This is ours? Our own? Now?" "Yes, Mother, it sure am ours." Father still tried to speak airily, but in his voice were passion and a grave happiness. "It's ours yours!
"General," say I, standing before him, dressed for morning church, after having previously turned slowly round on the point of my toes, to favor him with the back view of as delightful a bonnet, and as airily fresh and fine a muslin gown, as ever young woman said her prayers in "by-the-by, do you like my calling you general?"
"Do you want any thing of me?" I hastened to ask, for her eyes were like saucers and her head was tossing airily. "No," she said, almost with spite. "I came to see if you wanted any thing?" I shook my head with what good nature I could, for I did not wish to make an enemy in this house, even of a chambermaid.
Coming through the clear, sunny atmosphere among the green tree-tops, I thought it had sounded airily and sweetly; and the effect on my companions was the stranger. "Come," said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out; "this won't do. Stand by to go about.
Ma foi! she is a marvel; I say that always; and he is another. Now if I tried to do that sort of thing" he waved his hand airily towards Loris, tramping steadily along. "But I should not try; she is no light weight, I give you my word! Still they make a pretty picture, eh? What it is to be a giant!"
When the fishing party returned that afternoon Miss Fitzroy met them at the hall door. "Well, my dear," she said airily to Mrs. Spicer, "what sort of sport have you had? I've enjoyed myself immensely. I've bought a horse!" Mrs. Spicer sat, paralysed, on the seat of the outside car, disregarding her brother's outstretched hands.
"Yes, that's all right for you," assented Berta airily when told of this working theory, "but supposing you don't have the money to save in the first place?
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