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Lee," requested the cook, "an' 'spress to him de mortification we 'speriences at being necessitated to tender him his tea outen de elegantest ob best Japan. 'Splain to him dat we 'se a real quality family, an' regularly accustomed to de finest ob plate, till de Hessians depredated it."
Harcourt, at the upshot of all things, must be conscious, at the bottom of her heart, that, if she is the elegantest dresser about town, it's not all her own merit." "Very true indeed, Mrs. Grace," replied her complaisant friend; "and what sums of money her millinery might cost her, if she had no one clever at making up things at home!
And everybody crowded back to Uncle Silas's little old church, and was ever so loving and kind to him and the family and couldn't do enough for them; and Uncle Silas he preached them the blamedest jumbledest idiotic sermons you ever struck, and would tangle you up so you couldn't find your way home in daylight; but the people never let on but what they thought it was the clearest and brightest and elegantest sermons that ever was; and they would set there and cry, for love and pity; but, by George, they give me the jim-jams and the fan-tods and caked up what brains I had, and turned them solid; but by and by they loved the old man's intellects back into him again, and he was as sound in his skull as ever he was, which ain't no flattery, I reckon.
Waldstricker air a awful big, handsome lookin' man," asserted Tess, thoughtfully. "Folks says he air good to the poor, too. He air the biggest, fattest, elegantest elder in our church." Andy flipped his fingers in the air and summed up what he thought of the last statement in five words. "Shucks! That fer the church," mocked he.
"Wh-h-h-h-y " He was sure she was mad. Tramping all night! He couldn't let her do this. She sprang up. She stared down at him in revulsion, her hands clenched. Her voice was hostile as she demanded: "What? Don't you want to? With me?" He was up beside her, angry, dignified; a man. "Look here. You know I want to. You're the elegantest I mean you're Oh, you ought to know!
"Well, it's just the elegantest thing vanilla ice-cream with hot fudge poured over it, and as soon as they pour the fudge it's steaming hot, you know simply scalding it forms into a sort of candy, and then when they serve it " "I fancy you want one, too, don't you?" "Oh, goodness me, yes! I always eat chocolate fudge sundaes.
His hair is negligent in the elegantest grace of the perruquier's art, his dress fashioned to the very line of fastidious elegance and simplicity, yet a simplicity his Creole taste makes unique and attractive. He has the true French persiflage, founded on happy content, not the blank indifference of the Englishman's disregard.
However, the sight of a steaming cup of tea that filled the air with its appetizing fragrance, soon mollified her, and after dispatching one cup at boiling point, she paused to take breath before partaking of a second. "You see this is all there is of it: The elegantest man you ever saw drove up all of a sudden to the tavern and wanted to know where Miss Graystone was boarding.
A rough looking Farmer is sitting with his back towards them, eating bread and cheese, and reading a newspaper. Landlady. Well, this, to be sure, will be the best dressed Montem that ever was seen at Eton; and you Lon'on gentlemen have the most fashionablest notions; and this is the most elegantest fancy cap Finsbury. Why, as you observe, ma'm, that is the most elegant fancy cap of them all.
The very nature of the news she was carrying suggested the sounds she made carrying it. "The elegantest thing has happened I mean's goin' to!" She could not wait to get quite there, but sent her news ahead of her through the transmitting medium of air. Miss Theodosia, on her porch, sat dreaming her love's young dream young, not old; not old! "The elegant elegantest! He's goin' to be cured!
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