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"But anyway, it's different." He dusted the cap by the simple expedient of slapping it several times against his leg. When he had hung it on the back of his head and pulled it well down in front as nine out of ten men always put on a cap he did indeed look different, though he did not look at all like the demon he named.
The meats have been of his worst lately." Then with a glance at the paper, "Your uncle's books must be dusted; I quite forgot it; I will set Susan to work this morning." "But," said Leila, "he does hate that, Aunt Ann. The last time she succeeded in setting together 'Don Juan' and 'St. Thomas
The door was opened by a homely, elderly woman, who dropped a curtsey directly when she saw Mavis, who explained who she was. "You're kindly welcome, miss, if you'll kindly walk inside. Trivett will be in soon." Mavis followed the woman to the parlour, where her hostess dusted the chair before she was allowed to sit. "Do please sit down," urged Mavis, as Mrs Trivett continued to stand.
There was a gate beside the road just there, with a small triangle of green before it, and a granite roller half-buried in dock-leaves. Without answering, the woman seated herself on this, and pulling a handful of the leaves, dusted her shoes and skirt. "Maria, you'll take a chill that'll carry you off, sitting 'pon that cold stone." "I don't care.
"Perhaps she is gone to heaven before him; she did not look like one long for this world. She left us so suddenly. Many things of hers besides these papers are still, here; but I keep them aired and dusted, and strew lavender over them, in case she ever come for them again. You never heard tell of her, did you, sir?" she added, with great simplicity, and dropping a half courtesy.
He sprinkled the writing, creased the paper, and dusted the sand back into the receptacle. And then of a sudden his blood seemed to freeze, and beads of cold sweat stood out upon his brow. There had been the very slightest stir behind him, and with it had come a warm breath upon his bowed neck. Someone was looking over his shoulder.
He has followed us." He struck the sausage furiously out of Herman's hand. "Tonight the police will come. And what then?" "If you had taken my advice," said the clerk, "you would have got rid of that fellow upstairs long ago." He picked up the sausage and dusted it with his hand. "But I do not believe the police will come. The child was bitten. I saw them enter."
She would blow away in that big hat if a high wind took her," declared Betty. "And all the little girls wear them in winter. Still, I suppose Old Boston must have been cold and bleak in winter." "It was not so nearly an island." There was a good deal of work to do on Friday, so shopping was put off to the first of the week. Doris proved eagerly helpful and dusted very well.
You see he was a sceptical young man, and his kinsmen dead and gone had passed certainly, in his imaginations of them, into no other world, save, perhaps, into some stiffer, slower, sleepier, and more pompous phase of ceremony the last degree of court etiquette as they lay there in the great, low-pitched, grand-ducal vault, in their coffins, dusted once a year for All Souls' Day, when the court officials descended thither, and Mass for the dead was sung, amid an array of dropping crape and cobwebs.
"Don't you suppose she knows how to Dear me! what's the use of trying to talk here?" She fell on the mantel-piece and dusted its vases in silent desperation. Her mother accepted this dictum as final a proof of Jane's altered status, and of the discretion with which she was carrying herself.
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