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There was a great dinner party, but the general, not thinking Cecilia quite equal to it, had engaged Mrs. Holdernesse, a relation of his own, to do the honours of the day. Lady Cecilia came into the drawing-room in the evening; but, after paying her compliments to the company, she gladly followed the general's advice, and retired to the music-room: Helen went with her, and Beauclerc followed.
He scrambled up, as if stung into action, grabbed his hat, went boldly close to her and said: "If I thought yo' wish was in yo' invitation, Satan couldn't hold me back, and the Lord wouldn't." "What a strange compliment." "Ma'm, I don't know how to speak compliments." "Come on, please."
Perreeza took the instrument in her arms, swept her delicate hand over the well-tuned strings, and, after a moment's pause sang in seraphic tones a plaintive melody peculiar to her life in Jerusalem. Profound silence fell on the assembly after her song was finished. The performance and its effect were such that applause or compliments would have sounded ill-timed.
Standish that your love-making was intended as a compliment. Let me tell you, Don Carlos, if that is so I want no more of your compliments." "If I believed that, sweet lady, life would lose its savour and become but a bleak existence," responded Don Carlos.
"Eustache Boullé, at your service," and he bowed gracefully. "But I did not know you, Mam'selle. You were such a child four years ago. Even then you made an impression upon me." She was so little used to compliments that it did not stir her in the slightest. She was wondering, and at length she said "How did you find me?" "By hard searching, Mam'selle.
I inquired for the general, and was shown to his tent, where I found him seated on a camp-stool, with papers on a rude camp-table; he seemed to be employed in assorting letters, and tying them up with red tape into convenient bundles. After passing the usual compliments, I inquired if it were true that he was going away. He said, "Yes." I then inquired the reason, and he said "Sherman, you know.
Mountain, in his pleasant way, whether she was going back with him that voyage? she would decline, and say that she proposed to stay a year more. And when suitors came to Madam Warrington, as come they would, she would receive their compliments and attentions kindly enough, and asked more than one of these lovers whether it was Mrs. Mountain he came after?
As Long took his seat, amid the congratulations of his Democratic friends, Garfield arose, and, to compliments upon the former's peculiar candor and honesty, added denunciation for his Treason.
He pronounced these words in a manner and with a smile that he would not have dared to use if he had been speaking to a fellow-Spaniard. He added that she would, no doubt, come down and sup with me, as he was going to sup with his brother. "My dear Don Diego, don't let there be any false compliments between us.
Doc Bird, who was serving the coffee, started visibly, and looked at Dinshaw in amazement. "What's that?" asked Locke, and Trask and Marjorie turned to the old captain. "Jarrow and Peth want to steal my island and have all the gold," insisted Dinshaw, his face tragic. "Steward, give my compliments to Captain Jarrow and tell him I'd speak to him," said Locke. "I wouldn't do that," cautioned Trask.
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