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I shall be glad if you will allow me to read my paper. Psmith waved a damp hand. 'I should be the last man, he said stiffly, 'to force my conversation on another. I was under the impression that you enjoyed these little chats as keenly as I did. If I was wrong He relapsed into a wounded silence.
His orders written out, he delivers them into the hands of the manager of the shop with whom he chats a bit. . . . Nature imitated art, indeed, when she designed William Gillette, remarkable fleshly incarnation of the literary figment, Sherlock Holmes. In the soul of Mr. Gillette, as on a stage, we witnessed a dramatic moral conflict. Two natures struggled before us within him.
Household furniture, however, has been fully dealt with in the "Chats" series in the two volumes entitled "Chats on Old English Furniture," and "Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture," to which books those interested in the curiosities of cabinet-making and village carpentry are referred.
'Why, not much as yet, sir, on accounts I suppose of not being able to walk much; but he goes about the Yard, and he chats without particular understanding or being understood, and he plays with the children, and he sits in the sun he'll sit down anywhere, as if it was an arm-chair and he'll sing, and he'll laugh! 'Laugh! echoed Mr Pancks.
By the same token, what right had she to engage herself in confidential chats with But just then I caught sight of Britton coming upstairs with my neatly polished tan shoes in one hand and a pair of number 3-1/2A tan pumps in the other. Not expecting to meet me in the hall, he had neglected to remove his cap when he came in from the courtyard.
"Oh, I'm for the office. It's more exciting, a lot." "Your stuff," said Hal, in the language of the cult, "is catching on." "You don't like it, though," she countered quickly. "Yes, I do. Much better than I did, anyway. But the point is that it's a success. "I'd rather you liked it personally." "Some of it I do. The 'Lunch-Time Chats' " "And some of it you think is vulgar."
He found lodgings under the roof of this same friendly compatriot, the village storekeeper, who gave him the use of a small room adjoining the store-room. Here Douglass spent his evenings, devoting some hours to his law books and perhaps more to comfortable chats with his host and talkative neighbors around the stove.
'The Queen is running in and out of the house all day long, and often goes about alone, walks into the cottages, and sits down and chats with the old women.... I was greatly struck with the prince. I saw at once that he is very intelligent and highly cultivated; and, moreover, that he has a thoughtful mind, and thinks of subjects worth thinking about.
Yes, and to enjoy the home life, the afternoons on the tennis court or the golf course, the evenings in the drawing-room, the "teas" on the lawn either our lawn or someone else's the chats together across the dinner-table; to enjoy it all; and, more astonishing still, to accept the companionship of the young person who was responsible for our living in that way as a regular and understood part of that life.
Mother Hoey says that I do not speak like an American that I have not so many 'caperin's' in my language, whatever they may be; and so we have long delightful chats together when I go in for a taste of Ellen's griddle bread, cooked over the peat coals. Francesca, meantime, is calling on Mrs.
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