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And they would, the doctor airily informed me, be my portion for three months. To feel grumpy in such surroundings was certainly black ingratitude. It was an idyllic place. My pavilion was a sort of Trianon, a Marie Antoinette bower, all flowers and gold.
But what was his indignation when Nikolay Parfenovitch came back with quite different clothes, brought in behind him by a peasant. “Here are clothes for you,” he observed airily, seeming well satisfied with the success of his mission. “Mr. Kalganov has kindly provided these for this unusual emergency, as well as a clean shirt. Luckily he had them all in his trunk.
Daphne Jane, at Widewood, swinging on the garden-gate and cackling airily to a parting visitor, slipped to the ground as Widewood's master suddenly appeared, although just then the first light-hearted smile of that day broke upon his face.
Badger," said Toad, rather airily. "You've been listening to some of the yarns they spin in the public-houses about here. I know every inch of Toad Hall, inside and out. Nothing of the sort, I do assure you!"
"Tell us what you can," was all she said. "The time-honored tale of Indian uprising," said Willett airily. "Something I've heard every six weeks, I should say, since they gave me a sword." "But they've doubled the guard." "Only changed it, I fancy. The general wants some few cavalrymen for a scout in the Mazatzal." Mrs. Stannard knew better, but held her peace.
But she clinched the discussion herself by remarking airily that she was going in the cheapest possible way. "You shall go second class," said her aunt. "I quite see Dr. Angus's point about the first-class passengers." "I'm going third, Aunt. I won't spend money that needn't be spent, and the third-class part of the ship gets there just as fast as the first! I'd be uncomfortable among rich folks.
The doctor watched him as he drew near, receiving, from each of the embayed windows in succession, a flush of morning sun; and Otto looked so gay, and walked so airily, he was so well dressed and brushed and frizzled, so point-device, and of such a sovereign elegance, that the heart of his cousin the recluse was rather moved against him. 'Good-morning, Gotthold, said Otto, dropping in a chair.
"Bad case, too." "A veterinary can cure that," Fred declared, speaking more airily than his feelings warranted. "Hm!" replied Flannery dryly. "You find the veterinary, Master Fred, and I'll show the gentleman how to make his fortune if he can cure wind-broken horses." "Then what good is the pony?" demanded Fred in exasperation.
Leveson stayed his bicycle a moment, wobbling on it uneasily. "Lumpton goes back a good way," he said airily; "I shall take him up when I have gone through the history of the Vancourts. I'm on that scent now. I shall make a good bit of business directly Miss Vancourt returns; she'll pay for anything that will help her to stiffen her back and put more side on." "Really!" ejaculated Walden, coldly.
She sparkled airily. "No?" said Madame, still moving the needle and still in French. "Nevertheless, morning and evening together, our winnings are how much?" "Ours?" melodiously asked the smiling girl, "they are not ours, they are mine. And they are at the least" she dropped to her senior's footstool and spoke caressingly low "a clean thousand!
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