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Denslow's merits as a man of business; she, too, has what, in lieu of a better term, our New England people call faculty. Denslow's enthusiasm, we should turn for serious advice and practical counsel to Mr. Denslow. "This opportunity," said Mr. Denslow, "is one that comes only once in a lifetime. You must not let it escape you. We should go at once to Mrs.
But Lily was rather difficult those days. She seemed, in some vague way, resentful. Her mother found her, now and then, in a frowning, half-defiant mood. And once, when Mademoiselle had ventured some jesting remark about young Alston Denslow, she was stupefied to see the girl march out of the room, her chin high, not to be seen again for hours.
"There ain't grub enough," suggested Jackson Denslow, who came up from the waist with calm disregard of shipboard etiquette. "The boys have all caught plenty of fish, and we want to get in before dark. So gee her round, Cap'n." "Don't you give off no orders to me!" roared the Cap'n. "Go back for'ard where you belong."
Honoria has fallen to-night. I shall transfer my allegiance." "And Denslow?" "A born sycophant; he thinks it natural that his wife should love a duke, and a duke love his wife." "So would you, if you were any other than you are." "Faugh! it is human nature." "Not so; would you not as soon strangle this Rosecouleur for making love to your wife in public, as you would another man?" "Rather." "Pooh!
"And this is the thing we want, we the people; the greater thing, the thing we shall have; that this government, this country which we love, which has three times been saved at such cost of blood, shall survive." It was after that speech that he met Pink Denslow for the first time. A square, solidly built young man edged his way through the crowd, and shook hands with him.
For much less than a million one may gratify the senses; great fortunes are not for sensual luxuries, but for those of the soul. To the facts, then. The advent of this mysterious duke, whom I doubt, hailed by Denslow and Honoria as a piece of wonderful good-fortune, has already shaken him and ruined the prestige of his wife. They are mad and blind." "Tell me, in plain prose, the how and the why."
I am the Duke's bottle-holder; Denslow and wife accept that function for the chivalrous Adonaïs." "I am of the Duke's party," replied Dalton, in his most agreeable manner. "To be in the daily converse and view of the most beautiful women in America, as I have been for years, is a privilege in the cultivation of a pure taste.
One day, when flushed and wearied with the peevish exactions of a hulking fellow whose indisposition was trifling, she said to Dr. Denslow: "It is distressing to find out how much unmanliness there is in apparently manly men." "Yes," answered the doctor, with his customary calm philosophy; "and it is equally gratifying to find out how much real manliness there is in some apparently unmanly men.
Under his dark and solid brows gleamed large eyes of abysmal blackness and intensity. "Is it Lord N ?" whispered Lethal, moved from his habitual coldness by the astonishment which he read in my face. "Senator D , perhaps," suggested Denslow, whose ideas, like his person, aspired to the senatorial. "Dumas," hinted Adonaïs, an admirer of French literature. "I heard he was expected."
It soothed the girl to attend to small duties, and she was washing and wiping Elinor's small stock of fine china when the bell rang. "Mr. Denslow is calling," said Jennie. "I didn't know if you'd see him, so I said I didn't know if you were in." Lily's surprise at Pink's visit was increased when she saw him.
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