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They had the air of saying "Bravo!" and then of turning away. And he did not conceal from himself that he was really doing nothing but labour. The distances were great; and between his dinner parties, classes, services, and visits, he was forced to sit far into the night preparing his sermons, when his brain was not so keen as it might have been.
She thought she could get over their robbing her master of any amount of property; but she could not excuse their making him ridiculous before his lady's own eyes. "They cannot make him ridiculous, Morris," said Hester, cheerfully. "People who are persecuted are considered great, you know, Morris," said Margaret. "Bravo, ladies!" cried Hope.
"Senor Vejarruco, Senor Paso Largo," continued Dona Perfecta, without looking at the bravo of the place, "I am not safe in my own house. No one in Orbajosa is, and least of all, I. I live with my heart in my mouth. I cannot close my eyes in the whole night." "But who, who would dare "
So, too, it was on the ensuing evening when Aurelia, to compensate for the last day's neglect, came primed with three or four pages of the conversation between Priam and Achilles, which she rehearsed with great feeling, thinking, like Pelides himself, of her own father and home. It was requited with a murmured "Bravo," and Mr.
"Because they were talking at the Circolo of getting up some little matter of welcome, taking the horses from her carriage, and drawing her in, or some thing of that kind, and a serenata of course. Leandro is busy already with a poem for the occasion, you may swear!" "Bravo! bene! If only our good friend the Conte keeps his muse within tolerable limits!
It was in the days of ferocity in Italy, the days of the despot and the bravo; and Thyrsis' hero was a minstrel, a mighty musician whose soul was free. And he sung in the despot's hall, and wooed the despot's daughter. This was the minstrel of "Zulieka"
"It will make you heir of entail to this estate, master of this house, and of most of what it contains, and the present baronet. You have only to prove what you say, to defeat every provision of this will, with the exception of that which refers to the personal estate." "Bravo!" cried Sir Gervaise, fairly rubbing his hands with delight.
"All right; we agree!" I exclaimed joyfully, for it was a delightful thought that we were to escape the strange beings who spent their time in running about the rocks. "We shall start early," he continued, "so you had better get some rest." Which we did, as soon as our excited state permitted. "Bravo!" exclaimed Alzura, after breakfast the next morning; "this is an improvement.
"Bravo! my young scholar; you've heard that fable?" "Yes. One evening I was going into a dimly-lighted room, and I fancied I saw a great gray man seated in a chair; I cried out, and ran away, afraid. Then papa took me by the hand and led me into the dark room again, and I found that the giant which had frightened me so much was nothing but a pair of trowsers, thrown over the back of an arm-chair.
"That," said he, surveying it with becoming pride, "is our ancestor Hypolite LeCour de Lincy. Sir," said he, laughingly turning to his parent, "behold your father against your will." "Bravo, Monsieur my son," cried Madame Lecour. "Now I can make my old man dress like a gentleman.
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