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Is that Lady Garnett with her? What lovely white hair! I wonder where she gets it." Lady Garnett shrugged her shoulders a little petulantly after she had made the ghost of a return to Mrs. Dollond's airy greeting. "My dear," she said, turning to Eve confidentially, "may I confess to you that I am not altogether too fond of that woman?
I want to tell you something, Grace confidentially, of course. Father is very fond of Ruth. He and I had a talk this summer, and he wishes to adopt her. Just think of having Ruth for my very own sister!" Arline paused, her eyes shining. Grace nodded understandingly. "What does Ruth say?" she asked. Arline's face clouded.
This was confirmed, almost as soon as said, by the appearance of the proprietor, who explained that the maid had made a mistake in the number of the room, and then, feeling that there was a state of tension, confidentially informed his visitors that the locked room had really been booked to them but the old lady who was to have vacated it that morning had unfortunately died, and in order not to distress the other visitors the door had been locked pending the removal of the body, and even the servants had not been informed of it.
Gallilee's answer was addressed to Carmina instead of to her son. "Thank you, my dear," she said, and pressed her niece's hand. It was too dark to see more of faces than their shadowy outline. The learned lady's tone was the perfection of amiability. She sent Ovid across the road to knock at the house-door, and took Carmina's arm confidentially.
John Field, of Philadelphia, said that on the breaking out of the Franco-Prussian War he went to General Grant at Long Branch, and asked him how the war was likely to turn out, to which the general answered, ``As I am President of the United States, I am unable to answer. ``But, said Field, ``I am a citizen sovereign and ask an opinion. ``Well, said General Grant, ``confidentially, the Germans will beat the French thoroughly and march on Paris.
If only nursie were with us I should be quite happy, I think! she exclaimed. The two younger girls were in Eva's little bedroom, taking off Vava's outdoor things, a process which they had prolonged so as to talk confidentially together.
She blinked, raising up to him her puckered face, and seemed to beg mutely to be told something more, to be given a word of encouragement for her starving, grotesque, and pathetic devotion. "Can we be seen from the house?" asked Razumov confidentially. She answered, without showing the slightest surprise at the question "No, we can't, on account of this end of the stables."
One of the lads of the stall came with a book in his hand, recommending it to her notice; written by a new chap, he mentioned confidentially, and highly interesting. Gertie pulled herself together, and gave attention. "Thank you," she said, "but it's the work of a cousin of mine." The lad put Clarence Mills's novel down, and took up a pocket edition of "Merchant of Venice."
She sat still, looking about her dreamily, very dainty almost ethereal, he thought in that silvery light, and it was so long since he had talked confidentially to a woman of her kind, attired as became her station. Laura Waynefleet's hands, as he remembered, were hard and sometimes red, and the stamp of care was plain on her; but it was very different with Violet Hamilton.
Never should have expected to see her here," said some one else behind me confidentially. "What Carwitchet? Not the mother of the Carwitchet who " "Just so. The Carwitchet who " Tom assented with a shrug. "We needn't go farther, as she's my guest. Just my luck.
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