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What business! And at that thought, so natural and so peculiar, she uttered a little choked laugh. She ought, of course, to be delighted, but what was there to be delighted at? Her father didn't really care! Her mother did, perhaps? She entered the orchard, and sat down under a cherry-tree.
But around this simple fact of disappearance are often grouped the interests of many persons, which make a tangle worse than a poor fisherman's line. A proper detective will make no start in his search until the line is as straight and taut as if a black bass were sporting at the other end of it." All the men exchanged delighted glances at this simile.
When my name was announced by the usher, he sprang up from his chair and came forward with his face beaming and both hands stretched out. "Ah, you had forgotten me!" he said, and then he turned to greet Madame Guerard in a friendly way. "But I never thought I was coming to see you!" I replied: "and I am delighted," I continued, "for you will let me have everything I ask for."
"You seem to have had a good deal of walking," said Mr. Alwynn, rather taken aback, but anxious to be cordial; "but, at any rate, you will not walk back. You must stay the night, now you are here; mustn't he, Fanny?" Dare was delighted beaming. Then his face became overcast. His eyebrows went up. He shook his head. Mr. and Mrs.
It is a great pleasure always to welcome a former pupil." He looked at him very keenly for a few seconds, and then added, "I think, too, it is splendid of you to come very splendid." "It is a very great pleasure," Harris replied, delighted with his reception.
You are the archons who shall give judgment, and the whole world will thus see that we exercise according to law and order the authority which we have won with our arms. Sit around me, therefore, oh, citizens, and let the accused be brought forth!" The gaping mob was delighted with this new diversion.
An hour afterwards a radiant angel of a nurse claimed her for purposes of ablution. I once more returned to Hafiz. Then Barbara put her head in at the door. "Haven't you thought how delighted Doria will be?" "I haven't," said I. "I've more important things to think about."
"I hope you mean to settle in France." "It would be my dearest wish to do so, madam, but I stand in need of patronage, and I know that in France patronage is only given to men of talent, which is for me a discouraging circumstance." "On the contrary, I think you have reason to be hopeful, as you have some good friends. I myself shall be delighted if I can be of any assistance to you."
"I'm surprised at you, Phoebe, for being so dense," answered David with a delighted grin at having created a flurry. "Didn't you hear me tell Caroline Darrah Brown at least a week ago that possums and persimmons are ripe and that the first night after a rain and a fog we would all turn out and show her how to shake down a few? The whole glad push is going. Mrs.
These are the thoughts I have longed to hear from living lips, when I have been tempted to believe patriotism a delusion, and virtue but a name." Lady Florence heard, and her whole form seemed changed, she was no longer the majestic sibyl, but the attached, timorous, delighted woman.
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