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"I am quite ready to believe it. The transaction has been as providential for me as for the Signor Marchese." "Yes," answered the prince rather drily. "And now, my dear Meschini, will you leave me for a time? I have appointed this hour to see my last remaining daughter concerning her marriage. She is the last of those fair flowers! Ah me! How sad a thing it is to part with those we love so well!
Randolph answered drily. "Can you explain it, Daisy?" her father asked, gravely and kindly drawing her up to his side. Daisy struggled with some thought. "Papa," she said softly, "will mamma be satisfied to punish me and let it go so?" "Let it go how?" "Would she be satisfied with this punishment, I mean, and not make me say anything more about it?" "I should not. I intend to know the whole.
"It may be nothing but her annual attack of salvation," said the Parson drily. "I shouldn't worry about it if I were you; only keep an eye on her. She's not as young as she was, and it won't do her any good to be running about getting wet through." "She'll never listen to anything I say." "Well, Vassie seems able to manage her all right. She's a most capable girl, that!"
Sir Asher glared at the bold questioner. 'That seems a worse waste of breath, added Barstein drily. 'I said you were a mocker, said Sir Asher severely. 'It is a Divine event I pray for not the creation of a Ghetto. 'A Ghetto! Barstein groaned in sheer hopelessness. 'Yes, you're an anti-Semite too like your daughter, like your son, like all of us. We're all anti-Semites. 'I an anti-Semite!
She will fill the house with company that will suit me; and I shall just look sharp after her and keep her in order." "Hatty!" cried Fanny, in a shocked tone. "I hope you will keep yourself in order," said my Aunt Kezia, drily. "Little Cary, you have not spoken yet. What do you want to do?" Her voice softened as I had never heard it do before when she spoke to me.
The other replied, drily: "You can try elsewhere and see if any one will offer you more. I consider it worth fifteen thousand at the most. Come back; here, if you cannot do better." Monsieur Lantin, beside himself with astonishment, took up the necklace and left the store. He wished time for reflection. Once outside, he felt inclined to laugh, and said to himself: "The fool! Oh, the fool!
"I have been thinking," said she, "that they are distant relations, for the great-grandfather of this Sir Harry, who was knight of the shire in the reign of Charles I., married a daughter of the Walton family." Harley answered drily that it might be so, but that he never troubled himself about those matters.
However, some remark of Gavard's led the conversation to the subject of women. "Woman," declared Charvet drily, "is the equal of man; and, that being so, she ought not to inconvenience him in the management of his life. Marriage is a partnership, in which everything should be halved. Isn't that so, Clemence?"
Her crown prince renounced the throne and married a French singer." "And they say he is a very happy young beggar," said King drily. "It is the prerogative of fools to be happy," said Count Quinnox. "Not so with princes, eh?" "It is a duty with princes, Mr. King."
The dialogue then proceeded as follows: 'A fine frosty morning, Mrs. Mac-Candlish. 'Ay, sir; the morning's weel eneugh, answered the landlady, drily. 'Mrs. Mac-Candlish, I wish to know if the justices are to dine here as usual after the business of the court on Tuesday? 'Stay a moment, Mrs. Mac-Candlish; why, you are in a prodigious hurry, my good friend!
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