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The door opened others coming to congratulate Hilary Vane on the greatest victory he had ever won. Offices were secure once more, the feudal system intact, and rebels justly punished; others coming to make their peace with the commander whom, senseless as they were, they had dared to doubt.
Rainham had his face turned rather away, and was gazing at the pale reflection of the moonlight in one of the opposite windows. "I know," he said simply. "I do congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. And I hope you will make her happy." Then he turned and looked Lightmark in the face. "I suppose you do love her, Dick?" "I suppose I do. But how the deuce did you know anything about it?
He does not seem in one of his most sunshiny humors, but perhaps the long morning service, so trying in its present arrangement of lengthy prayers, praises, and preaching, to a restless and irritable temper, is to blame for that. "I suppose," he says, speaking rather stiffly, "that I must congratulate you on the arrival of the first detachment." "First detachment of what?" "Of your family.
As we rose from the table, Madame went into her closet with her niece and nephew that was to be, and the niece came out in the course of an hour and bade us congratulate her, as she was to be married in a week, and after the wedding she would accompany her husband to Dunkirk. "To-morrow," she added, "we are all to dine with M. Corneman, where the deed of settlement will be signed."
Frank, remembering the friendly reproof which he had just received, passed over the other officers of the Wanderer, and made a special effort to be civil to Crayford's friend. "Good-morning, Mr. Wardour," he said. "We may congratulate each other on the chance of leaving this horrible place." "You may think it horrible," Wardour retorted; "I like it." "Like it? Good Heavens! why?"
We can perhaps hereafter do business together that may put yourself in a way of clearing off all mortgages on these estates, on the encumbered possession of which I shall soon congratulate you. You see I am frank; 't is the only way of coming to the point with so clever a fellow as you.
And you are now a Doctor of Laws. Will you kindly allow us to consult you in any legal difficulty?" "I congratulate you on having a brother who is a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George too. They were both very valiant saints, dangerous to dragons and demons.
Certainly never was envoy more thoroughly beguiled than the excellent John upon this occasion. Wiser than a serpent, as he imagined himself to be, more harmless than a dove; as Alexander found him, he could not, sufficiently congratulate himself upon the triumphs of his eloquence and his adroitness; and despatched most glowing accounts of his proceedings to the Queen.
Monica gazed at her with wide eyes. 'You mean, I suppose, that people would try to reform things. 'Who knows? Perhaps they might only congratulate each other that a few of the superfluous females had been struck off. Do they give you any summer holiday? 'A week, with salary continued. 'Really? With salary continued? That takes one's breath away Are many of the girls ladies?
"Leave off this useless discussion," said Darius, "and tell us instead, Araspes, how it is that, though you congratulate every man on becoming a bridegroom, you yourself have so long submitted to be blamed by the priests, slighted at all entertainments and festivals, and abused by the women, only because you choose to live and die a bachelor?"
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