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"I can't believe you have come here to take that confidence from me?" She leaned back, smiling at him through her lashes. "And all this I am to do for your beaux yeux?" "No for your own: that you may see with them what happiness you are conferring." "You are extremely clever, and I like you." She paused, and then brought out with lingering emphasis: "But my family will not hear of a divorce."
"If we're married to-morrow, I say it could be to-day just as well, but I suppose you girls have to buy clothes, and have your hands manicured, and so on " "You know we do, to say nothing of lying awake all night talking about our beaux!" "Well" he conceded it somewhat reluctantly "then, to-morrow, some time before I go with Valentine to call for you, I'll go down to see my mother.
Behind the lattice, on these summer evenings, stands the militant figure of that old retainer, Bridget the cook, her stout arms akimbo, ready to engage in vigorous banter should Honora deign to approach. "Whisht, 'Nora darlint, it's a young lady yell be soon, and the beaux a-comin' 'round!" she would cry, and throw back her head and laugh until the tears were in her eyes.
A hard-working little chap, his days were filled with sharp suspense. The Beaux Arts entrance examinations were close ahead. If he did not pass, he told me, his parents in Ohio were too poor to give him another chance. "If I have to go back to Ohio now," he said in that soft reflective voice of his, "I'll put up cowsheds later on, barns and maybe when I'm fifty, a moving picture theater.
I'm getting more mixed up every minute." They turned into the Cooks' yard and slowly approached the house. A man and woman were just disappearing around the corner. "Who are they?" Hugh inquired. "Lena, the cook, and one of her beaux," said Bob. "I thought Heinrich was in love with her." "He is," laughed Bob, "but he has a rival, and that's the man." "What's his name?" "Karl Hoffmann."
She had been sitting contentedly beside the old gentleman, for the last half hour, leaving her unmarried sister to entertain the beaux, according to etiquette. "No, I have never been to the Falls; and all our party but my sister Emma, seemed to think it would be a pleasant jaunt." "Mr.
The other night, at the party, I went and took Anna away by mere force; for I knew she must feel dreadfully to have her father waiting upon her all the time, while the other girls were talking with the beaux. And another young friend of mine said, with an air most laughably serious, 'I don't think Harriet and Julia enjoyed themselves at all last night.
The tea was served out of a majestic Delft teapot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs, with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fancies. The beaux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle.
People were loitering in the street; the young beaux of the place going up and down with the belles, after the leisurely manner in youth and summer; perhaps they were students from St. Xavier College, or visiting gallants from Guysborough. They look into the post-office and the fancy store.
When Philippe-le-Bel acquired the property, he promptly gave it to the Comtesse d'Artois who made of it one of the "plus beaux castels du temps." She decorated its long gallery, the portion of the edifice which exists to-day in the humble, emasculated form of a warehouse of some sort, in memory of her husband Othon.
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