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The army of Louis was entirely routed, and the Duke considered it virtually destroyed. He wrote to the state council that he should pursue them the next day, but doubted whether he should find anybody to talk with him. In this the Governor-general soon found himself delightfully disappointed. Five days later, the Duke arrived at Reyden, on the Ems.
"I've fought side by side with North Carolina regiments, and I tell you, sir, they're the best fighters God ever made!" cried the general. "Did you ever hear that story about 'em when I was wounded?" Dudley shook his head and leaned forward, his hands clasped between his knees and an expression of flattering absorption on his face. "I can't recall it now, sir," he delightfully lied.
Barbara Paulovna had much practical sense, and a very great love of comfort, together with a great faculty of obtaining it for herself. What charming travelling knick-knacks appeared from various corners of the luxurious carriage that she had purchased to convey them to Lavretsky's country home! And how delightfully she herself made coffee in the morning!
So Marjorie obeyed, and, of course, Uncle Steve picked out the very book she wanted, and read to her delightfully for an hour or more. Marjorie's porch, as it came to be called, proved to be a favorite resort all summer long for the family and for any guests who came to the house.
I need joy almost as much as love; and who will give me joy if you do not?" After her return to Paris, for six weeks Therese lived in the ardent half sleep of happiness, and prolonged delightfully her thoughtless dream. She went to see Jacques every day in the little house shaded by a tree; and when they had at last parted at night, she took away with her adored reminiscences.
Here could we linger in genial meditation, while from the dark pannelled walls look down upon us lovely countenances of those who, centuries ago, have called this home portraits whose calm, meek dignity so far transcends the more active style in which it too often pleases us moderns to glare from our gilt frames, "looking delightfully with all our might, and staring violently at nothing;" costume and truth being utterly outraged, the roturier's wife mapped in the ermine of the duchess, and perchance dandling on her maternal lap what appears to be a dancing dog in its professional finery, but which, on closer inspection, turns out to be an imp of a child, made a fool of by its mother and milliner; and my lady in inadequate garments, and a pair of wings, flourishing as some heathen divinity or abstract virtue!
If we were to imagine a human appearance as made up of certain elements, a, b, c, d, e, f, etc., then we might suppose that beauty in one case was attained by a certain high development of a and f, in another by a certain fineness of c and d, in another by a delightfully subtle ratio of f and b. A, b, c, d, e, F, etc. a, b, c, d, e, f, etc. a, b, c, d, e, F, etc.,
In their poor gloomy cottage, over which tempest rushed, they scorned all that was hostile, intoxicated and delightfully fortified against the whole by the eternal magic of love. For six days they were husband and wife. In this time of leave-taking the preparations for the Iceland season occupied everybody.
He talked freely, with great vivacity, and delightfully, rising and walking about the room as his talk sparkled on. He heard, with evident pleasure, but with entire simplicity and manliness, of the American interest in his works and in those of Mrs. Browning, and the Easy Chair gave him a copy of Miss Fuller's paper in the Tribune. It was a bright and, to the Easy Chair, a wonderfully happy hour.
"Am I ever that, Prue?" asked Sylvia, pausing on the threshold with a shy yet wistful glance. "Ever what, dear?" "Pretty?" "Always so to me; and now I think every one finds you very attractive because you try to please, and seem to succeed delightfully."
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