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"I am delighted with the success of this little dinner," Valentine continued, "and I wish to give another after Easter. My great desire is to have Mademoiselle Gontier with whom I should like to become better acquainted recite poetry to us after dinner. Would you have the kindness to tell her of my desire?" "I!" exclaimed the General, amazed at such a request. "Yes, certainly.
Mystified as I was by what I saw, I was even more amazed at the cool manner in which Kennedy passed it all by.
They was goin' to shoot him Corrigan put 'em up to it. That Carson fello' heard it an' put 'Firebrand' wise. An' the shootin' didn't come off. But that's only the beginnin'!" "Did Trevison tell you to tell me this?" The girl was stunned, amazed, incredulous.
He was sinking fast; and as he had but a short time to live, he expressed a desire to see them, though he could see no others. They came, and were amazed to see how bright the dying boy looked. They received his last farewells he would die that night. Sweetly he blessed them, and made them promise to avoid all evil, and read the Bible, and pray to God.
The Good Knight spurred his horse, who pranced about in the most wonderful way, and then Bayard gave a small exhibition of his skill with the lance which amazed the bystanders and did not please the lord Lodovico overmuch, for he remarked: "If all the French men-at-arms were like this one I should have a poor chance."
"You cawn't fool me, deah boy!" declared the dude, with growing conviction. But he carefully covered the mug. Then Reddy, with a grin, reached under the rough table they were using and soon pulled his hand back with a half dollar in the palm. The boys laughed, and wondered, and the girls were likewise puzzled. Purt looked both amazed and vexed. Then they began to laugh at him.
He happened at this time to be living on the same stair-case with Lillyston, and Lillyston, who was in the rooms below him, was quite amazed at the sounds which he heard proceeding from his rooms.
I had expected to listen to a natural, ordinary, unactable episode arranged more or less in steichomuthics. There is no work so scholarly and engaging as the amateur's. But in your play I am amazed to find the touch of the professional and experienced playwright.
"I!" said the amazed and Right Honorable Joseph Addison; "I kill Dick's child! I was godfather to the last." "And promised a cup and never sent it," Dick ejaculated. Joseph looked grave. "The child I mean is Sir Roger de Coverley, Knight and Baronet. What made ye kill him, ye savage Mohock?
At prayers that night in the chapel Margaret Grant and the other girls of the Specialities were startled when Mr. Fairfax made special mention of Betty Vivian, praying God to comfort her in sore distress and to heal her sickness. The prayer was extempore, and roused the girls to amazed attention. Fanny was not present that night at chapel.
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