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Though there was a lurking consciousness in each, which none cared to publish, that there was, at times, an indefinable flavour of burlesque and irony in Mr. Dangerfield's compliments, which excited momentary suspicions and qualms, which the speaker waived off, however, easily with his jewelled fingers, and smiled mockingly away. Lowe was mightily taken with him.
Dangerfield's beautiful eyes were wide open in an anxious wonder; the piquant face of Erebus was set in a defiant scowl; and Sir Maurice looked almost as anxious as Mrs. Dangerfield. Only the Terror was serene. "Surely those brutes I brought haven't got out of their cages," said Sir Maurice. "Oh, no; those must be visiting cats," said the Terror calmly.
A second pistol already gleamed in Dangerfield's hand, and missed. With a spring like a tiger he struck the hesitating constable in the throat, laying his scalp open against the door-frame, and stamping on his face as he fell; and clutching the third by the cravat, he struck at his breast with a knife, already in his hand.
And he grasped Dangerfield's white thin hand in his, with a fervour how unlike his cold greeting of only a few minutes before, and shook it with an eager cordiality.
At the sight of her Sir James felt his tremulous courage oozing out of him; but with what was left of it he blurted out desperately: "Look here, Anne, dear, I want you to marry me!" "Oh!" said Mrs. Dangerfield, rising quickly. "Yes, I want it more than ever I wanted anything in my life!" Mrs. Dangerfield's face was one flush; and she cried: "B-b-but it's out of the question.
The great dog left his canine antagonist that moment, flew at your baronet, and would have eaten him up at three mouthfuls, if Sir Philip had not made good his retreat to Dangerfield's circulating library. The negro's head was terribly cut by the sharp point of a stone, and his ankle was sprained; but, as he has just told me, he did not feel this till afterward.
He remembered her entourage on the steamer; her father and mother, the silent senseless burghers, so little "of the world," her infant sister, so much of it, her humorous brother with his tall hat and his influence in the smoking- room. He remembered Mrs. Dangerfield's warnings yet her perplexities too and the letter from Mr. Bellamy, and the introduction to Mr.
And he bethought him of the price of the cockatoo and the probable cost of the pelican, rejoinders to Dangerfield's contributions to Aunt Rebecca's menagerie, for those birds were not to be had for nothing; and Cluffe, who loved money as well, at least, as any man in his Majesty's service, would have seen the two tribes as extinct as the dodo, before he would have expended sixpence upon such tom-foolery, had it not been for Dangerfield's investments in animated nature.
'Pen and ink in the drawing-room, Doctor Pell, said Toole, reverentially. 'Oh! no, no, Madam, excuse me, murmured Doctor Pell, gently pressing back Mrs. Sturk's fee, the residuum of Dangerfield's bounty, with his open palm. 'Oh, but Doctor Pell, urged she, in a persuasive aside, half behind him, in the shadow of the doorway.
'Very clever dog needs be sharp though, or he'll come to ha! and a gray trout came splashing and flickering along the top of the water upon the hook, and Irons placed the net in Dangerfield's outstretched hand, and the troutling was landed, to the distant music of 'God save the King, borne faintly on the air, by which the reader perceives that the band were now about to put up their instruments, and the gay folk to disperse.
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