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Take care of the cheese, Fanny. Now I can manage the other parcel and the basket very well." "What else have you been spunging?" said Maria, half-pleased that Sotherton should be so complimented. "Spunging, my dear! It is nothing but four of those beautiful pheasants' eggs, which Mrs. Whitaker would quite force upon me: she would not take a denial.
Therese half turned her head and saw in the shadow Le Menil, who was bowing to her with his brusque suppleness. "Transmit, I pray you, Madame, my congratulations to your husband." He complimented her on her fine appearance. He spoke to Miss Bell a few courteous and precise words. Therese listened anxiously, her mouth half open in the painful effort to say insignificant things in reply.
And when, some years later, we saw him present himself before a large audience in a state not far removed from intoxication, and mumble incoherence for ten minutes, and when, in the course of the evening, we saw him make a great show of approval whenever the clergy were complimented, the impression was renewed that the man had expended his sincerity, and that nothing was real to him any more except wine and office.
I felt greatly complimented and pleased to receive an invitation the other day to attend the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly in June. I have many things to do in June, but I am going going with great pleasure. I hope to see you there. I know of no other company of people that I should be so glad to meet. They are doing noble work the most devoted and useful work in this whole wide world.
Now, what do you suppose that fellow has come back here for, and after he publicly complimented me on the admirable manner in which my books were kept, too?" and the industrious knight of the ledger and the daybook had such a look of worry on his face that it was all Mr. Winslow could do to keep from laughing outright.
He seemed to know well about my affairs; complimented me on every kind of good fortune; had heard that I had canvassed the borough in which I lived; hoped sincerely to see me in Parliament and on the right side; was most anxious to become acquainted with Mrs.
Perhaps that would not have been etiquette. I don't know anything about such things. The etiquette book Heppie lent me to read once was too uninteresting, worse than Hannah More. Mr. Norman's face went on falling. His sister would not have been complimented if she had seen it. "In fact," Mr. Somerled added, "I'm afraid this is good-bye. Mrs.
Thérèse felt that however adroitly another woman might have managed the situation, for herself, it would have been a piece of affectation to completely ignore it at this moment. “Mr. Hosmer, perhaps I ought to have said something before this, to you about what you’ve done.” “Oh, yes, congratulated me complimented me,” he replied with a pretense at a laugh. “Well, the latter, perhaps.
On leaving the stage I went and sat down on the bench without uttering a word, and looked at Marie Lloyd, who was being made much of, and who was greatly complimented by every one. She was wearing a pale blue tarlatan dress, with a bunch of forget-me-nots in the bodice and another in her black hair.
Alluding to the libretto of Camilla, the king complimented Vittoria for her high courage on the night of the Fifteenth of the foregoing year. "We in Turin were prepared, though we had only then the pleasure of hearing of you," he said. "I strove to do my best to help. I wish to serve our cause now," she replied, feeling an inexplicable new sweetness running in her blood.
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