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"Varya looked in this evening," said Masha, sitting up. "She did not say anything, but one could see from her face how wretched she is, poor darling! I can't bear Polyansky. He is fat and bloated, and when he walks or dances his cheeks shake. . . . He is not a man I would choose. But, still, I did think he was a decent person." "I think he is a decent person now," said Nikitin.
"Then would you mind telling him to come here, mother darling? I'm giving this doctor-man a prescription. Ah, please do what I ask you, mother! It is true about the prescription. It's not for himself; it's for the foreign people quarantined inside." She nodded towards the room where Shiel Crozier and his wife were shaping their fate.
"The finest in the world, darling! Twenty dollars in the hand and a remunerative job for him in the bush." Fifi did a few steps of a minuet. "Hooray!" said she in her weak little voice. Sharlee put her arms around the child's neck and said in her ear: "Fifi, be very gentle with that young man. He's the most pitiful little creature I ever saw."
"On my word, my dear fellow," cried out the professor, delightedly, "you will do me a real service, I was just considering about writing to Esperance's godfather!" "What a narrow escape! papa darling, and what a horrid surprise you were plotting without giving any sign!" "Then you prefer this arrangement? You accept Maurice and Jean as your knights-errant?
Nurse, we have come." "So I see, Miss Verena," said nurse. She lifted her very much wrinkled old face and looked out of deep-set, black eyes full at the young girl. "What is it, my darling child?" "How are we to bear it? Shall we fall on our knees and get round you in a little circle? We must talk to you. You must advise us." "Eh, dears!" said nurse. "I am nearly past that sort of thing.
"When are you going, Truxton? You you haven't told me." It was what he wanted. "I am going next Monday," he said promptly. As a matter of fact, he had forgotten the day of the week they were now living in. "Monday? Oh, dear!" "Will you?" "I I must cable home first," she faltered. "That's a mere detail, darling. Cable afterward. It will beat us home by three weeks. They'll know we're coming."
"Cleopatra was happy with us from the beginning; Arsinoe needed a longer time; but the King valued only the opinion of his older child, his darling, on whom he feasted his eyes and ears like a lover. He often shook his heavy head at the sight of her, and when she gave him one of her apt replies, he laughed so loudly that the sound of his deep, resonant voice was heard as far as the house.
You shan't be taunted and sneered at by any man on earth, if he were twenty times my father! What an angel you were, Jack, to keep quiet, and then talk as if nothing had happened! I was choking with rage!" "Poor darling!" said Jack Martin tenderly. "You take things too much to heart. It's rough on you, but you must remember that it's rough on the old man too.
I spoke hurriedly, but with fervour: and while with gentle violence I drew her from the portal, some thought, some recollection of past scenes of youth and happiness, made her listen and yield to me; suddenly she broke away with a piercing shriek: "My child, my child! he has my child; my darling girl is my hostage."
The lively affection seamen have for strong drink is well known; but in the South Seas, where it is so seldom to be had, a thoroughbred sailor deems scarcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling "tot." Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ration; and aboard of most of them, it is never served out even in times of the greatest hardships.
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