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He claimed permission therefore to come every day, and to take Lucia to all the places where Mrs. Costello was not able to go. "Oh, how charming!" Lucia cried. "I shall get some walks now. Do you know, Maurice, mamma will not let me go anywhere by myself, and I can't bear to make her walk; but you will go, won't you?"
And they are discomposed when they hear it said of any one, he is perished, or he is gone or he is no more; and they show great uneasiness when they hear such words as these: Go to the wood-clad earth he must, And there lie shrivelled into dust, And ne'er more laugh or drink, or hear The charming sounds of flute or lyre; and these:
Your friends are charming ladies of a stamp Marianna and I so far haven't had much chance to meet." Then his face grew very resolute as he added: "But she shall have her opportunity. If things go right with us she'll get her share of all that's best in life and, with that at stake, we have to make things right."
"Has Nick told you then?" "On the contrary, I've told him." "You've rendered him a questionable service if you've no proof," Peter pronounced. "My proof's only that I've seen her with him. She's charming, poor dear thing." "But surely she isn't in love with every man she's charming to." "I mean she's charming to me," Nash returned. "I see her that way.
A big stage, society! The harem is always being replenished! And he plays his part so well! He has what the wise-acrescall 'perverted morals', they are so charming! and he will not marry. He says, 'Why give myself to one when I can make so many happy! And why will not I, Sylvie Hermenstein, be one of those many? Why will I not yield to the embraces of Monsieur le beau Marquis?
O the dear charming man! how nobly, how encouragingly kind, was all this! I could not suitably express myself: And he said, I see my girl is at a loss for words! I doubt not your kind acceptance of my declarations. And when I have acted too much the part of a libertine formerly, for you to look back without some anxiety, I ought not, being now happily convicted, to say less.
In one of his letters home Colonel D'Hubert wrote: "All your plans, my dear Leonie, of marrying me to the charming girl you have discovered in your neighbourhood, seem farther off than ever. Peace is not yet. Europe wants another lesson. It will be a hard task for us, but it will be done well, because the emperor is invincible."
X. C. V. was both beautiful and charming in her manner, and had received an excellent education of which, however, she made no parade. One could not stay in her presence without loving her, but she was no flirt, and I soon saw that she held out no vain hopes to those who had the misfortune not to please her.
That's a good thing, because I want to say thank you for driving Uncle Alfred and Notya to the station." "That's all right," he said, and added with a sullen curiosity, "Is he the one who's going to adopt you?" "Yes." "He hasn't done it yet?" "I'm not sure that I want to go. George, shall I tell you something? Something charming, a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night I did call you!"
We advance over charming expanses of water lying between lofty hills; and as the lake is narrow, the voyage is like that of a winding river, like that of the Ohio, but for the primeval wildness of the acclivities that guard our Western stream, and the tawniness of its current.
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