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The dealer for a moment amused himself in studying her bewilderment, which he thought charming only wishing that his son, a young painter, were standing in his place. At last he broke the silence however, saying: "Your father, perhaps, will not agree to our bargain; and yet it is for him you want the money?" "Who says so?" "Would he have offered me his own treasures if he had not wanted money?"
Haddo, who was evidently softened by this reference to the past. "I remember Beatrice Vivian," she continued, before the baronet had time to speak. "She was a very charming girl, a little older than myself, and she was undoubtedly a power for good in the school." "Then, surely, that makes it quite all right?" said Sir John. "Mrs. Haddo, you must pity me.
It is sure to make them uncomfortable to themselves and annoying to others." He broke off, and stared about him. "My dear, this is really charming almost as charming as the Posthof."
His thoughts on that score went too deep for utterance. But Rose was engaged in her own purely personal deliberations. "You might want to come out again ... afterwards?" "Yes I should hope to. Besides ... there are my cousins...." "Indian ones ?" "Yes. Very clever. Very charming. Rose ... you've been six years in India.
"Bless your quiet imagination," said Valentin, "I have been to see her three times in five days. She is a charming hostess; we talk of Shakespeare and the musical glasses. She is extremely clever and a very curious type; not at all coarse or wanting to be coarse; determined not to be. She means to take very good care of herself.
Such a state could not last, and so the time came when the mobs of Paris broke into the beautiful gardens of Versailles, stormed the Palace of the Tuilleries, scattered some of the vain and foolish old courtiers, but imprisoned many more, and brought to trial the hapless King Louis and the charming Marie Antoinette.
Some people are charming so long as they are young, and afterwards there is nothing attractive about them; others are vigorous and active in manhood, and then lose all the value they possess as they advance in years; many appear to best advantage in old age, when their character assumes a gentler tone, as becomes men who have seen the world and take life easily.
Edward Lee. They sat in the Glynn sitting-room, which shrilled with treble voices as if a flock of sparrows had settled therein. The Glynn sitting-room was charming, mainly because of the quantity of flowering plants. Every window was filled with them, until the room seemed like a conservatory.
And she, who has followed our eyes and begins to guess what is on foot, lowers her head in confusion, with a more decided but more charming pout, and tries to step back, half-sulky, half-smiling. "It makes no difference," continues M. Kangourou, "it can be arranged just as well with this one; she is not married either, Monsieur!" She is not married!
"You have reason to believe! Why?" "Oh, a charming young fellow, who, with most of the other gentry resident at L , called on me at my hotel, told me that he. had travelled in the East, and had there heard much of Sir Philip's knowledge of chemistry, and the cures it had enabled him to perform." "You speak of Mr. Margrave. He called on you?" "Yes."
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