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The key of her house was left with him, with strict injunctions to go in and water her geraniums every day, while two canaries and a bullfinch had to be removed to his own house in order that they might have constant attention and company. "She's doing it on purpose," said Mr. Smithson, fiercely; "she's binding you hand and foot." Mr. Clarkson assented gloomily.

"I think I'll telephone Arthur to come tomorrow evening instead," said she. "He'd not like it, with Sam here too." "That would be better," assented her mother. "Yes, I'd telephone him if I were you." Thus it came about that Susan, descending the stairs to the library to get a book, heard Ruth say into the telephone in her sweetest voice, "Yes tomorrow evening, Arthur.

"Weren't you there with two ladies, rather Spanish-looking, one much older than the other?" He raised his brows and blew out a cloud of smoke. "I shouldn't wonder," he assented, and seemed to dismiss the subject from his thoughts. While Esther resumed her task he roamed aimlessly about, winding up again in the salon, where she heard him rustling a newspaper.

When they said "she," in these days, they always meant Violet Grey, though they pretended, for the most part, that they meant Nona Vincent. "Oh yes," Wayworth assented, "she wants so to!" Mrs. Alsager was silent a moment; then she asked, a little inconsequently, as if she had come back from a reverie: "Does she want to VERY much?"

"He is still incommunicado." Without believing it would lead to anything, I suggested: "It was foolish of him to give offence to Mr. Scott?" The commandant nodded vivaciously. "Mr. Scott is very powerful man," he assented. "We all very much love Mr. Scott. The president, he love Mr. Scott, too, but the judges were not sympathetic to Mr. Scott, so Mr.

"You are going to?" "Yes," she assented. He still held her eyes. "I don't like it," he said slowly. The ghost of a smile came into her face. Her eyes danced in the shadow of it. "No?" she said quietly. "No!" She waited, looking down and plucking at the silken fringe of her bodice. "Why?" she asked after a time. He made no reply. She glanced up at him.

Bardo assented with a wave of the hand when Bernardo told him that he thought it would be well now to begin to sell property and clear off debts; being accustomed to think of debts and property as a sort of thick wood that his imagination never even penetrated, still less got beyond.

"In the meanwhile, my cabbages," quoth Auguste sententiously, "are you not grateful to Citizen Robespierre, who has sent this order specially down from Paris?" "Aye! aye!" assented the crowd cheerfully. "Hurrah for Citizen Robespierre!" "Viva la Republique!" "And you will enjoy yourselves to-day?" "That we will!" "Processions?" "Aye! with music and dancing."

Carey said he thought this a very dangerous undertaking on account of the friends who might be imperiled, but felt that there was no doubt but it could be accomplished. "Walters spoke up at this point, saying this proposition was not feasible at all, and a number assented to his remark. "Mr.

One day a proclamation was issued at Kief, commanding all the people to repair to the river-bank the next day, there to be baptized. They assented without a murmur, saying, "If it were not good to be baptized, the prince and the boyars would never submit to it." These were not the only signs of Vladimir's zeal.