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A solitary evening, added to these causes of discontent, had greatly ruffled the general's equanimity of temper, and when his wife appeared deep in the night, her clothes in disorder, her hair disarranged, and her face pale as death, he felt her return in this state as a positive insult to his house.
This departure disarranged Geoffrey's scheme for his friend's salvation; for he was not prepared to go the length of sacrificing his daily game of tennis. "What do you want to leave us for?" he remonstrated. "The bathing," said Reggie, "is heavenly. Besides, next month I have to go into villegiatura with my chief. I must prepare myself for the strain with prayer and fasting.
The desk, wrenched away, hung by a single hinge. The drawers had been pulled out and thrown upon the floor. To the left of the room stood the bed, which had been completely disarranged and upset. Even the straw of the mattress had been pulled out and examined. "Not the slightest imprint," murmured Gevrol disappointed. "He must have arrived before half-past nine. You can all come in now."
The sound of the voices, boxed in, filling a little space shut off from the great empty hall made the house seem very still. The saal was empty, the girls were upstairs at their housework. Miriam restlessly rising early had done her share before breakfast. She took Harriett's last letter from her pocket and fumbled the disarranged leaves for the conclusion. "We are sending you out two blouses.
His speeches were prepared with great care and must have been memorized. Before he spoke he prayed the gods that not a single unworthy word might escape his lips. We are told that his manner was so calm, so well poised, that during his speech his mantle was never disarranged.
The beautiful creature passed her hands over her eyes an instant, tucked in a stray lock of hair that had become disarranged, and after a look around the garden made those present a gracious bow and said, in a sweet but even toned voice: "I thank you very much." "We salute your Royal Highness!" cried the Wizard, kneeling and kissing her hand.
She noted that Lucy had just that frank look of Diana of the Uplands, and the delicate, sensitive face, refined with the good-breeding of centuries, but strengthened by an athletic life. Her skin was very clear. It had gained a peculiar freshness by exposure to all manner of weather. Her bright, fair hair was a little disarranged after her walk, and she went to the glass to set it right. Mrs.
She acknowledged Patrick's profound salute and his excuses with just so many degrees in the inclining of her head as the polite deem a duty to themselves when the ruffling world has disarranged them. 'Con! she called to her chattering husband, 'we are in England, if you please. 'To be sure, madam, said the captain, 'and so 's Patrick, thanks to the stars.
But the black hat, the drab coat of the civilian had long been left behind and here the face of a woman was unknown as the flying dragons of the world's youth. Now and then with a crash the remains of a house fell, as the block of stonework which alone supported it was disarranged by the working soldiers. "Where am I to go?" asked Fanny, as the street wound round the base of the hill.
"I will not rob you of your coffee, most dutiful of sisters!" she exclaimed. "I have had adventures oh, more than one, I can assure you. It has been a marvellous day and I am going to England." Anna looked at her sister gravely. Even in her painting smock and with her disarranged hair, the likeness between the two girls was marvellous. "The adventures I do not doubt, Annabel," she said.
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