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I guess she'd dine with Queen Victoria if she had a mind to." "I feel exactly as if I were at a pantomime," cried Betty, delightedly. "Even you " She caught herself up. "I mean I always thought the New England playwrights invented all their characters. Who are these plainly dressed women and and half-way ones?" "Oh, they're Representatives' wives mostly," drawled the old lady, who looked puzzled.
In the meantime a tall and spare young man of a red-bronze colour alighted from the five o'clock express at Ripton and grinned delightedly at the gentlemen who made the station their headquarters about train time.
"Guess you're out of a job now, cookee," said Shand. "Now we'll have something to eat besides lead sinkers," added Joe. Sam laughed with the others, and, retiring a little, watched how she did it. The girl affected him differently from the rest. Diffidence overcame him. He scarcely ever raised his eyes to her face. All watched her delightedly, each man showing it according to his nature.
"The king!" exclaimed the queen-mother. "The king has won," repeated the queen, delightedly. "Oh! the king! your dream!" said Madame, joyously, in the ear of Anne of Austria. The king was the only one who did not exhibit any satisfaction. He merely thanked Fortune for what she had done for him, in addressing a slight salutation to the young girl who had been chosen as her proxy.
It was hardly worth while searching the floor for a chamber-maid: he decided to inform the civil-spoken clerk, and have the key brought to the office, at which sapient resolve Puck, who was surely abroad in New York that night, must have chuckled delightedly.
The ladies swarmed around that person, quoted his sayings delightedly, and declared a million times in Wallie's hearing that "he was a character!" And the worst of it was that Helene Spenceley did not seem sufficiently aware of Wallie's existence even to laugh at him.
Now Princess Sultanam was a kindly foolish woman at heart, much given to impulses, and the sight of the upstanding little boy made her think instantly what a fine man he would make, and that brought another thought which made her sit up delightedly and clap her hands. "I have it, my lord!" she exclaimed, turning to Prince Askurry. "It is a grand idea!
Oh! if it's good pickin' you're after, they's berries for all creation 'long the river yet; an' jest wait a few days till old April gets done showerin' an' I plow this corn field!" Abram set a foot on the third rail and leaned his elbows on the top. The Cardinal chipped delightedly and hopped and tilted closer. "I hadn't jest 'lowed all winter I'd tackle this field again.
"Oh, yes!" cried Angela delightedly. "I should like to do anything to help." She did not mean to trespass on Esther's plan. This, she thought, was quite different work from what Esther was going to do. But her promptness added to Esther's vexation.
The girl in the doorway felt a hot surge of discomfort flare over her for the first time in her life for such a reason. There was something in the low voice that implied a lack, accused her of something. She resented it instantly. "If that is so," she said slowly, "light." The man laughed delightedly, and swung quickly down, dropping his rein. Tharon noticed that. That much was natural.
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