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"Yes," assented Celia; "but it isn't any more wonderful and astounding than the occurrences one reads of in the newspapers almost every day." "And there is no doubt? I mean, it is all settled; he is the Marquess?" said Miriam, still apathetically, as if no change, however revolutionary, could affect her. "Yes, it is all settled, or will be very soon," said Celia.
Her little hands quivered so violently as she held them to her chin to fasten her bonnet that she could not tie the strings, and after a few moments she relinquished the attempt. Seeing this he moved forward and said, "Let me tie them." She assented in silence, and lifted her chin. For once at least in her life she was totally oblivious of the charm of her attitude.
I had the pleasure of knowing Miss Young long before I knew you." "Long! how long? I was not aware that you had ever met. Where did you meet?" "In the schoolroom, before breakfast, full four hours before you called this morning." "Oh, that is all you mean! I wondered how you should know her." Sophia asked whether Margaret and Miss Young were not going to study together: Margaret assented.
Leonard could raise no objection, except the possibility that the Earl of Rochester and his companions might discover their retreat, and carry off Amabel in his absence; but, after a little reflection, considering this altogether unlikely, he assented, and they set out. A pleasant walk across the fields brought them to the pretty little village of Willesden and its old and beautiful church.
"I think I will remain over a day," he answered. "I may go on to Boston before starting West." "Well, that's right," said Clementina's father with the wish to approve everything native to him, and an instinctive sense of Clementina's wish to befriend the minister. "Betta come to oua hotel. We're all goin' to the same one." "I presume it is a good one?" Mr. Orson assented.
"Yes, that it would," naively assented the farmer. "And even so we accept and shall ever be grateful for your services," added Lyon Berners, gravely. And all the while he was slily examining the contents of his pocketbook.
I assented to the justness of her remonstrance, and desired she would assist me with her advice and direction: upon which it was concerted between us, that for the present I should be contented with her telling Narcissa that, in the course of her inquiries, she could only learn my name: and that, if, in a day or two, I could fall upon no other method of being introduced to her mistress, she would deliver a letter from me, on pretence of consulting her happiness: and say that I met her in the streets, and bribed her to this piece of service.
'Yes, answered Milly. 'I suppose he's coming up to-night? 'I asked him to. 'There'll be a frantic row one day. I'm sure there will, Milly said meditatively, after a pause. 'Oh! there's bound to be! Ethel assented, and she added: 'Mother does trust us. Have a choc? Milly said yes, and Ethel drew a box of bonbons from her pocket.
At that rate we would be at the moon in less than three days. "But I don't want to travel as fast as that," the German went on. "I want time to make some scientific observations on the way, and so I have reduced the speed of the Cardite motor by half, though should we need to hasten our trip we can do so." "Then we'll be about a week on the way?" asked Jack. "About that, yes," assented Mr.
The man assented and volunteered the information that he was a writer. Did he "know what Shakespeare had written?" Their informant could not say, but, a moment after they had parted, he called back that he believed he had written "part of the Bible."
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