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Dale, Miss Maynard, Harriet, Katherine, and Dora, the last-mentioned looking quite pale with fright. 'If you please, said Elizabeth, turning round at the foot of the stairs, 'I can manage her better alone. She gained her point, though at the expense of politeness. Mrs. Dale and Miss Maynard retreated, and Harriet and Katherine followed in their train.
He had found Persis Dale unexpectedly interesting, but Annabel was unexpectedly pretty, and a liking for pickles does not preclude a taste for sweets. Thomas Hardin's married sister, Mrs. Gibson, heard the news with consternation.
Never, it is said, had ships been reprovisioned and caulked, and remanned with greater speed for the over-ocean voyage. Indeed, it was barely over a month from the day that they brought up in the harbour, they put out beyond the walls, and began their voyage eastward over the hills and dale of the ocean. In another matter also has navigation vastly improved.
Clara's impression was renewed when Sir Willoughby sat beside Miss Dale in the evening; and certainly she had never seen him shine so picturesquely as in his bearing with Miss Dale. The sprightly sallies of the two, their rallyings, their laughter, and her fine eyes, and his handsome gestures, won attention like a fencing match of a couple keen with the foils to display the mutual skill.
How that name enraged and frightened Angela! Never before had she witnessed quite so clearly the power of beauty. Suzanne Dale was young and beautiful. She was looking at her only tonight thinking how fascinating she was how fair her face and here was Eugene bewitched by it, completely undone. Oh, the terror of beauty! The terror of social life generally! Why had she entertained?
But no matter what awaited nor what fateful events might hinge upon this nameless circumstance about to be disclosed, the wonderful and glorious fact of the present was that in a moment he would see Helen Rayner. There were saddled horses in the courtyard, but no riders. A Mexican boy sat on the porch bench, in the seat where Dale remembered he had encountered Al Auchincloss.
"I thought you were all for Captain Drayton? I rather prefer this Major Dale myself. He hath more manners than John Drayton ever had." Peggy's face flushed, but she observed quietly: "They are both dear lads, Harriet. Thee will see John also at Lancaster. Father said that he had been sent there." "Then it will be quite like old times, Peggy.
David was now on the staircase among the firemen, fighting his way up through fire and smoke, for the purpose of saving Miss Tippet, until he was hauled forcibly back by Dale or Baxmore who were in the thick of it as usual. Anon, down in the basement, knee-deep in water, searching for the bodies of his two shopmen, both of whom were standing comfortably outside, looking on.
"Well, he probably is. Thirty-eight to thirty-nine and eighteen or nineteen bad combination. Where is Suzanne?" "Upstairs in her room, I fancy." "It might not be a bad thing if I talked to her myself a little, though I don't believe it will do any good." Mrs. Dale disappeared and was gone for nearly three-quarters of an hour.
Life for the poorer classes in Germany is apt to be more monotonous and dull than for the poorer classes of any country which nature has blessed with more fertility, more sunshine, more diversity of hill and dale, and where people are more mutually sociable and accommodating.
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