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One of them meantime as she clapped her wings aloft in the brandies uttered the counsels of Hera: "What a pitiful seer is this, that has not the wit to conceive even what children know, how that no maiden will say a word of sweetness or love to a youth when strangers be near. Begone, sorry prophet, witless one; on thee neither Cypris nor the gentle Loves breathe in their kindness."
"O dear Doctor Helen!" sighed Polly softly, while Dot clapped her hands with glee, and even Catherine showed signs of satisfaction. "Did his mother hear you?" "If she had, I was prepared to tell her it was necessary to restore the circulation. I was afraid the child might howl, but it was a new experience to him and he took it so very pleasantly that I am now worried for fear he liked it!"
"O, yes!" promptly replied Sing, his face breaking out in smiles, "me tinkee Miss Mattie heap pletty. Me heap likee Miss Mattie." This open avowal of admiration was more than Mattie had bargained for, and she blushed furiously. The whole party clapped their hands and laughed, while Will fell upon the floor and rolled about in an ecstacy of fun and laughter.
Then he stood still with staring eyelids, and panted as though he were about to die. But he clapped his hands three times. Giddenem appeared. "Listen!" he said, "go and take from among the slaves a male child from eight to nine years of age, with black hair and swelling forehead! Bring him here! make haste!" Giddenem soon entered again, bringing forward a young boy.
"I really don't know his name; but he was accompanied, to be sure, by a Captain Salt when I met him at Vlaardingen." Captain Barker groaned. "But excuse me," pursued the old gentleman in blue, still addressing Captain Runacles, "I spoke not only of a young man, but of a message. Did he deliver it?" "If you mean Tristram Salt, I have not clapped eyes on him since the 1st of May last."
Napoleon, on reaching the height, beheld a cloud of dust enveloping long black columns, glistening with a multitude of arms: these masses approached so rapidly that they seemed to run. It was Barclay, Bagration, nearly 120,000 men: in short, the whole Russian army. Transported with joy at this sight, Napoleon clapped his hands, exclaiming, "At last I have them!"
With a deep breath the artist turned full on the steward's house, and immediately a clear merry voice called out: "What, tall Pollux! It really is tall Pollux; how glad I am!" With these words the girl on the balcony loudly clapped her hands; and as the sculptor hailed her in return, and shouted: "And you are little Arsinoe, eternal gods! What the little thing has come to!"
The porter was civil to him, admitted him in kindly, and rung the bell briskly. As soon as the baker and his wife heard it, they clapped on their best clothes, and made their personal appearance in the hall, keeping their gravities like a new-made judge.
She's right in one thing, however; poor Luke might have got this clapped on his shoulders had he been here." "Scarcely," dissented Dr. West. "Luke Roy is too inoffensive to harm any one, least of all a woman, and Rachel; and that the whole parish knows." "There's no need to discuss Luke's name in the business," said Mr. Verner; "he is far enough away.
"I fancy you have been busying yourselves here with prophesyings," said he: "Gabriele, my child, you shall have your reward for it read this aloud to your mother!" laying a newspaper before her. Gabriele began to read but threw the paper hastily down, gave a spring for joy, clapped her hands, and exclaimed, "Henrik's poetry has won the highest prize!"
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