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"Sorry? What for?" "That you came. That you fell, I mean to say. I I I don't really know what I mean to say." "No wonder, poor boy! I landed right on you, didn't I?" "Did you? Something did. I thought it was the mountain." "You aren't very complimentary," she pouted. "But there! I dare say I knocked your thoughts all to bits." "No; not at all. Certainly, I mean. It doesn't matter.
Lady Camper had been charming; full of condescension, neighbourly, friendly, willing to be satisfied with the sacrifice of the smallest branch of the wych-elm, and only requiring that much for complimentary reasons.
"I have told you all my plans," said Lady Corisande. "Yes; but I was thinking of something else when you spoke," said Lothair. "That was not very complimentary." "I do not wish to be complimentary," said Lothair, "if compliments mean less than they declare. I was not thinking of your garden, but of you." "Where can they have all gone?" said Lady Corisande, looking round. "We must find them."
"It's sure fine fer the pretty face of yer," he asserted, rather timidly. "The color on it an' the shinin' in yer eyes is real good to see." "You are very complimentary," I laughed. Then the old man looked at me, quite soberly, and I could see that a misgiving had made its way in his dear old soul. "I mistrust I doesn't jist know what that means," he said, rather worried.
Beranger went on conversing with shrewdness mingled with childlike simplicity, a blending of the comic, the earnest, and the complimentary. Conversation in a French circle seems to me like the gambols of a thistle down, or the rainbow changes in soap bubbles. One laughs with tears in one's eyes.
Our host listened to the complimentary remarks about himself with great glee, for it showed that he was a power that was respected by the robbing fraternity, and that they took good care to visit his range of land as little us possible. "Are we to stay here in the wet all night?" grumbled Mr. Brown. "I don't see how we are to avoid it," Mr. Wright replied.
He secreted this missive, and wrote Vittoria's name on numbers of slips to divers addresses, heading them, 'From the Pope's Mouth, such being the title of the Revolutionary postoffice, to whatsoever spot it might in prudence shift. The title was entirely complimentary to his Holiness.
In the succeeding November Captain Talbot received a complimentary letter from the President of Congress, together with a resolve of Congress, presenting him with the commission of lieutenant-colonel in the army of the United States.
Without actually overhearing anything, Elsie, who wasn't at all quick in regard to matters of that sort, understood, somehow, that there was more or less comparison between herself and the regular librarian, which was not altogether complimentary to Miss Stewart.
Mary felt sure that any information of her which Rose might give would not be very complimentary, and she thought right; for when Rose was questioned concerning "Miss Howard," she at first affected her ignorance of such a person; and then when George explained himself more definitely, she said, "Oh, that girl!
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