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The pair dramatized her outline on the instant: "Did I not see him speak to an English lady, and he will not tell me a word about it, though she's my own countrywoman?" "Is it not true that she received two letters this afternoon, and still does she pretend to be ignorant of what is going on?"
Von Konigstein, you're too bad!" Here Lady Madeleine Trevor passed again, and the Grand Duke's hat nearly touched the ground. He received a most gracious bow. "Finish the story about Salvinski, Baron, and then I will present you for a reward to the most lovely creature in existence, a countrywoman of your friend, Lady Madeleine Trevor."
It was a long gallery; at the further end Miss Desborough stood cloaked, veiled, and coquettishly hatted. She was looking very beautiful and animated. "I want you to please do me a great favor," she said, with an adorable smile, "as your own countrywoman, you know for the sake of Fourth of July and Pumpkin Pie and the Old Flag! I don't want to go to this circus to-day.
Crockett's benefactor laid him tenderly upon the bed, and leaving him in the charge of his countrywoman, bade him adieu, and hastened away to overtake his companions. What a different world would this be from what it has been, did the spirit of kindness, manifested by this poor Indian, universally animate human hearts!
Colonel Miller, not displeased at this involuntary homage to the beauty of his countrywoman, said to the men, 'This is our generala; on which her Ladyship, turning to the line, bowed to the troops, who no longer confining their expressions of admiration to suppressed interjections, loud vivas burst from officers and men, to which Lady Cochrane, smiling her acknowledgments, cantered off the ground like a fairy."
"Take it to the Foundling!" replied the countrywoman, harshly; "the hospital is a better mother than you are, for it pays for the food of its little ones." At the word "Foundling," Genevieve had exclaimed aloud in horror.
Spare your blushes, my little pomegranate- blossom, till I have told you all; and then perhaps in future you will not be so hard upon poor Boges; you will see that he has a good heart, full of kindness for his beautiful, saucy little countrywoman." "I do not trust you," she answered, interrupting these assurances.
Flore felt so secure of her power that, unfortunately for her, and for the bachelor himself, it did not occur to her to make him marry her. Towards the close of 1815, Flore, who was then twenty-seven, had reached the perfect development of her beauty. Plump and fresh, and white as a Norman countrywoman, she was the ideal of what our ancestors used to call "a buxom housewife."
But, even as they gazed, he slowly lifted his rake and began his monotonous work again. At Scrooby Priory, the consul found that the fame of his fair countrywoman had indeed preceded her, and that the other guests were quite as anxious to see Miss Desborough as he was.
But most probably he had been in Italy, where he had fallen in love with our fair countrywoman, and felt touched for our country.
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