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Ginevra being, I suppose, tired with dancing, sought me out in my retreat. "Lucy Snowe! Lucy Snowe!" she cried in a somewhat sobbing voice, half hysterical. "What in the world is the matter?" I drily said. "How do I look how do I look to-night?" she demanded. "As usual," said I; "preposterously vain." "Caustic creature!
Well, she had a very good average intellect: but he could not absolutely say she was clever. "Come, let us see some of her letters." So Pen confessed that he had but those three of which we have made mention and that they were but trivial invitations or answers. "She is cautious enough," the Major said, drily.
I volunteered to assume nursing duty in the place of Leroy, but my offer was declined, the chief mate rather drily remarking that the presence of an Englishman by the captain's bedside was scarcely likely to accelerate the patient's recovery, while some of his ravings were of such a character that it was better for all concerned that I should not hear them.
"You're a bully fellow," he exclaimed in a tone of sincerity, but not entirely free from the false echo of his laugh, "and I'd love to tell you were you not certain to be bored stiff with it. Let me ask you, instead, what you're thinking about in this charmed circle?" "I'm sure you'd be bored stiff," she drily answered. He waited a moment.
"Would you, a clergyman, have George break the Commandments, and commit murder, John?" asks Theo, aghast. "I am a soldier's son, sister," says the young divine, drily. "Besides, Mr. Warrington has committed no murder at all. We must soon be hearing from Canada, father. The great question of the supremacy of the two races must be tried there ere long!"
Paul's got the soul of a great musician, an' he might as well be dead right now as to stay here, an' as for me I'd a heap rather be dead." "Oh, I see," commented Tom Burton very drily. "You figure that it'll be pleasanter for us to move into a palace somewhere, an' have a dozen or two servants waitin' on us. All right, where's the palace comin' from?" Ham spoke in absolute confidence.
'One certainly gets to know people rather well in times like these, said Jim, drily; but William's face was serene as ever, and, even as she prophesied, Scott did not appear.
'And you are content, said Godwin, drily, 'to have wasted ten years of your life for such a possibility? 'Wasted! Christian exclaimed. 'Come, come, Peak; why will you affect this wretched cynicism? Is it waste of years to have lived with the highest and purest ideal perpetually before one's mind?
Moreover, he was a man of sense and delicacy in his way, and the late circumstances of Jeanie's family, with the cause of her expedition to London, were not unknown to him; so that he answered drily, it was impossible to stop, as he must be early at Carlisle on some business of the Duke's, and he accordingly bid the postilions get on.
He examined the bed before he left the room again, turned back the sheets and pressed them down, and the straw rustled drily beneath; glanced into the sweating earthenware jug, refolded the coarse towel on its wooden peg, and then smiled again at the young man. "Supper," he said briefly.
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