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'I once tried to make a few stitches with a sewing-machine, Angela said, apparently in explanation. 'A telephone is different, Madame Bernard answered gravely. 'Shall I ask the Count to come to-morrow at four o'clock, instead of to-day? Angela hesitated, and then blushed faintly. 'Do you think she began, but she stopped and hesitated.
'À drrroite conversion! roared the parrot in a terrific voice of command. Angela jumped in her chair, for it was the first time she had heard the creature speak in that tone; but Madame Bernard laughed, as if it pleased her. 'It is absolutely my poor husband's tone, she said calmly. 'Coco, she said, turning to the bellicose bird, 'the Prussians are there!
Unluckily one could not pay a chemist to put Bernard Clowes out of his pain! "This is going to be deuced uncomfortable," was the reflection that crossed his mind in its naked selfishness. "I wish I had never come near the place. I'll get away as soon as I can."
Chapeau's arguments against their farther progress were conclusive, and as there was no better shelter to which to take them, Father Jerome led them into the little glebe. "There is but one bed left in the place," said he, as he entered the gate, "but you will be very welcome to that; you will find it poor enough; Father Bernard has shared it with me for the last two nights.
The ladies agreed that it was a very good arrangement, and some inquiries were made as to Mr. Robert Hazlehurst's health; and a discussion of bruises and falls, nerves and dyspepsia, followed. Soon after, the quadrille broke up. "Well, Miss Jane," cried Mrs. Bernard, as several young people drew near, "I hear that your sister, Mrs.
"Thank you, Uncle Bernard." Ruth extended a cold little hand, and stood hesitating by his side, while his sunken eyes dwelt upon the face which in feature was so like his own. "I've enjoyed the time part of the time more than anything else in my life! I'm sorry if I have done wrong in any way; I wanted only to please you!" "For my own sake, or for what I could give?"
He is so much of an idealist about his ideals that he can be a ruthless realist in his methods. But Bernard Shaw is not merely an Irishman; he is not even a typical one. He is a certain separated and peculiar kind of Irishman, which is not easy to describe. Some Nationalist Irishmen have referred to him contemptuously as a "West Briton." But this is really unfair; for whatever Mr.
While visiting Paris in 1738 Linnaeus met and botanized with the two botanists whose "natural method" of classification was later to supplant his own "artificial system." These were Bernard and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.
Bernard, who was pale with alarm, had to announce that the regiments were coming, and would be quartered, one in Castle William, the other on the town. The council replied that there was room enough in the Castle for both, and that, according to the law, any officer attempting to use private houses would be cashiered. In the midst of the dispute, the regiments arrived.
"Now you are mine for a few hours," said Miss Bernard, after breakfast, to her guest, as she led the way, followed by Dawn, to a little room which she had fitted up, and in which she studied or mused, sewed or wrote, as the mood prompted. The walls were hung with pictures, her own work, some in oil, others in crayon; all landscapes of the most poetic conception and delicate finish.
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