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She felt in her pocket, in which she always carried some gold by way of half-pence, took out a twenty-franc piece and threw it down to the old man. He, however, did not take any notice of it, but continued looking at her ecstatically, and was only roused from his state of bliss by receiving a handful of gravel which she threw at him, right in his face. "Do sing!" she exclaimed.
"Mais oui, madame!" cried Virginie, clasping her hands ecstatically. "Like a veritable angel!" "I shouldn't have thought it," commented her ladyship drily. Her shrewd eyes swept the child's tense little face with its long, Eastern eyes and the mouth that showed so vividly scarlet against its unchildish pallor.
'Play at croquet, forsooth, when rocks aren't to be had to scramble on every day! And scramble ecstatically they did, up and over slippery stone and rock festooned with olive weed, peeping into pools of crystal clearness, and admiring rosy fans of weed, and jewel-like actinias embellished by the magic beauty of intense clear brightness.
"There is no need," cried Denis. "Follow the narrow alley leading downward to the river, and take the boat of which young Carrbroke spoke. The river! Surely you could escape that way." "Boy," whispered Leoni ecstatically, "you are the deliverer of France! Hah!" he added, in tones full of regret. "And you will not be with us! The river yes. They would never dream that we escaped that way.
"Ah," Olivia confessed, "but I had thought so before when I knew it couldn't be you." St. George's heart gave a great bound. "When before?" he wanted to know ecstatically. "Ah, before," she explained, "and then afterward, too." "When afterward?" he urged. "Yesterday, when I was motoring, I thought " "I was. You did," St. George assured her. "I was in the prince's motor.
Set of reskils!... I've put my mark against Stridge, I have; and against Inglethwaite's name I've put a picture of a big boot one of my own making, too! The big boot!" he screamed ecstatically "that's what your man is a-going to get to-day. Set of " Robin smiled benignantly upon him, and glanced at the Returning Officer. "You hear what this gentleman says?" he remarked.
He was a notable purrer; never had there been an Ingleside cat who purred so constantly and so ecstatically. "The only thing I envy a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world." Doc was very handsome; his every movement was grace; his poses magnificent.
At the same late hour David was sitting at the window of his darkened room, smoking pipe after pipe, gazing raptly up at the moon-lit sky. "By George!" he would breathe ecstatically, "By George!" as though he had been seeing something wonderful in ecclesiastical architecture.
The rustle of her pretty skirt was like music to him. "Are you satisfied?" he asked, thinking of how well she did the night before. "Are you?" He tightened his fingers as he saw the smile she gave him. "It was wonderful." Carrie laughed ecstatically. "That was one of the best things I've seen in a long time," he added.
She walks about in it as if it were a blooming park, a Garden of Eden; and when she sees 'This is genteel, or 'This is improper, written on a mile-stone she stops ecstatically, as if she were listening to a nightingale or smelling a rose." Madame de Bellegarde wore a little black velvet hood tied under her chin, and she was wrapped in an old black cashmere shawl.
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