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'One of 'em's as fat as bofe them Berjum cats, she say: 'an' it's on'y got one eye, she say. 'Well, Miss Julia, ma'am, I say 'one thing; they come out white, all 'cept dess around that there skinnier one's eye, I say: 'dess the same you tell me they goin' to, I say. 'You right about that much, ma'am! I say." "Oh, me!" Mrs. Johnson moaned, worn with applausive laughter.
The "Yes!" was by the applausive, open, viva voce vote of all those who filed past him and shook his hand and thronged along toward the buffet that was operated in de luxe style by a metropolitan caterer's corps of servants. The Senator's mansion was spacious and luxuriously appointed, and the millions from the products of his timber-land barony were lavishly behind his hospitality.
Men ran backward across the open square, looking up as they ran. So by that I knew that Helene had done her work, and was now watching the burning beacon, as the flames flicked upward and clapped their fiery applausive palms.
Objectively, she was a slim, hoopless little woman, with a tendency to be always at the street-door when we opened it. She had a narrow, narrow face, with eyes of terrible slyness, an applausive smile, and a demeanor of slavish patronage.
At this, Henry Rooter loudly shouted with applausive hilarity; whereupon Herbert, rather surprised at his own effectiveness, naturally repeated his waggery. "Say not so, Florence! Say not so! Say not so!" "I'll tell you one thing!" his lady cousin cried, thoroughly infuriated.
Along the tables, men and women were ranged facing her; open-mouthed, some of them but for the most part wearing a predetermined expression of applausive judgement, as who should say, "Queer, but good." They gave Emilia their faces, which was all she wanted! and silence, save for an intermingling soft snore, here and there, the elfin trumpet of silence.
A thunder of applausive hands marked the end of Percy Saville's comic song. Mr. Montagu Samuels was beaming at his brother's grotesque drollery. There was an interval of general conversation, followed by a round game in which Raphael and Esther had to take part. It was very dull, and they were glad to find themselves together again.
Dartrey mentioned her father. She understood: 'I am thinking of him. The words of her mother: 'At peace when the night is over, rang. Along the gassy passages of the back of the theatre, the sound coming from an applausive audience was as much a thunder as rage would have been. It was as void of human meaning as a sea. In the still dark hour of that April morning, the Rev.
So nothing passed between them in their progress to the house; there was no sound in the park but the pleasant rustle of summer it seemed an applausive murmur and the swift roll of the vehicle. Lady Agnes already knew, for as soon as the result was declared Nick had despatched a mounted man to her, carrying the figures on a scrawled card.
The next moment I am back at my giddy badinage with the young ladies, wakening laughter as I go, and leaving in my wake applausive comments of "Isn't Mr. Dodd a funny gentleman?" and "O, I think he's just too nice!"
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