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He chid, laughed, rallied, was earnest and apologetic, and all this without being conscious of having done wrong. "I think you had better leave him alone," said Avery, after watching his fruitless efforts. "He doesn't want you." It was true; now Krafft had no thought for anyone but Avery. It was Avery here, and Avery there.
To a miner, or indeed to anyone in want of money, as I usually was when knocking about in Australian or American mining districts, the one painful thing is to know where untold quantities of gold lie without being able to get a single pennyweight of it.
"Yes, ma'am; I think he feels it, but does not shew it. I know from myself what are, probably, his feelings on the subject. When I have been away for weeks and sometimes for months, without seeing or speaking to anyone, all alone in the woods, I feel more religious than I do when at Quebec on my return, although I do go to church.
"But why should we talk about Mr. Courtland? Why should we talk about anybody to-night? Dearest Ella, let us talk about ourselves. You are of more interest to me than anyone in the world, and I know that I am of more interest to you than to anyone else. Let us talk about ourselves." "Certainly we shall talk about ourselves," said Ella.
If anyone but Lida's brother had spoken to him in this way it would have pained him deeply, but to hear such words from Sanine's mouth amazed him; in fact at first he scarcely understood them. "Look here," he muttered, "either you are posing, or else " "Or else what?" asked Sanine, smiling. Novikoff looked aside, shrugged his shoulders, and was silent.
"Ashamed of what?" returned Reine, hastily. "I have done nothing extraordinary; anyone else would have acted in the same manner." "I entreat you," replied he, earnestly, "not to spoil my happiness.
The footman a new man in the house looked uncomfortable. "I said your Ladyship was not out, but that I did not know whether your Ladyship was at home to anyone." After another pause Lady Sellingworth said: "Please ask Miss Van Tuyn to come up." As she spoke she got up from her sofa.
I don't think that I should go to talk of that to strangers. "'Then you can keep some things to yourself, Meeta, said Monique; 'and we shall not excuse you if you are so imprudent as to let out this affair of the treasure we have found to anyone. "'Don't fear me, grandmother, returned Meeta; 'nobody shall hear from me but we must watch little Margot.
Both the seniors had been fretting all the afternoon with a sense of something gone wrong at Grandcourt, the former with just a little indignation that he, the captain of the school, should be kept in the dark, along with everybody else, on the subject. "I ought to work," said Branscombe; "you go and tell me what's up." "Why, I thought you were as anxious as anyone to know?"
M. Denniée was having great difficulty in finding anyone to fill the post, when I turned up with a letter ordering me to report to Marshal Lannes.
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