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Anxious to be again with his invalid, he was preparing to quit them, when Mary, as with a full heart she curtseyed her adieu, in a hurried and confused manner, said "Pray, Mr. Constantine, take care of yourself. You have other friends besides the one you are going to lose.

He assured me that nothing save a convulsion of the earth would do it, which comforted me, for I took the firmness of the earth in perfect trust. We spoke of our old Sunday walks to St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey as of a day that had its charm. Our pew among a fashionable congregation pleased him better. The pew-opener curtseyed to none as she did to him.

Short people are most particular about this privilege; but to him, before whom she specially wished to appear grown-up, she had stood still and curtseyed as when he had last seen her. Occupied by this mishap she rushed into another. She said to herself, "Do not look round, keep yourself stiff, do not look round; do you hear?"

When she folded them over her bosom in resignation; when she dropped them in mute agony, or raised them in superb command; when in sportive gaiety her hands fluttered and waved before her, like what shall we say? like the snowy doves before the chariot of Venus it was with these arms and hands that she beckoned, repelled, entreated, embraced, her admirers no single one, for she was armed with her own virtue, and with her father's valour, whose sword would have leapt from its scabbard at any insult offered to his child but the whole house; which rose to her, as the phrase was, as she curtseyed and bowed, and charmed it.

Owen and Netta were with their mother, and as they approached, Gladys rose, curtseyed, and was going away, when Owen made an unnatural kind of whistle, as if to frighten away some cows in the distance. Gladys started, and with a terrified face glanced at him.

Very bad for the dear baby's eyes. How do you do, Nurse? I have come to see baby. I am her aunt, her dear mother's sister, Maria Cameron." Nurse curtseyed. "Baby is asleep, ma'am," she said. "I have just settled her in her little crib for the night. She's a good, healthy child, and no trouble to any one. Yes, ma'am, she has a look of her dear blessed ma.

Then having given Peter her hand to kiss, and curtseyed to the governor and the notary, she went to her bed in the next room, which opened out of that in which they were.

"Could have? Your mood is right." "Surely she'll be happy with you? If you could love her?" "Not even then. I'm not to her measure." "Are you unhappy?" "It's better than the worst, a great deal better. Good-bye." I pressed her hand and kissed it. With a sudden seeming formality she curtseyed and kissed mine.

'What business is it of yours? No woman likes that sort of thing, and I'm not sure that I am acquainted with any woman who likes it much less than Glencora, Duchess of Omnium." As she said these last words in a low whisper, she curtseyed down to the ground. "You know how anxious I am," he began, "that you should share everything with me, even in politics.

Virginia listened with head hung down and clenched hands; when I had done she would have rushed headlong into speech but she checked herself by biting her lip forcibly. She curtseyed to me, and went quickly out of the room.