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They had taken this room, because in case she attended the concert, Eugenia would wish to rearrange her hair, and make some little change in her personal appearance. "Then, too, when Mr. Hastings came," she said, "they would be by themselves, and not have everybody listening to what they said. By the way, mother," she continued, as she stood before the glass, "if Mr.
I took a seat on the sofa, and with the boy on my knee, and Eugenia by my side, held her hand, while she narrated the events of her life since the time of our separation.
The KING seated, near him the INFANTA CLARA EUGENIA. No she is sure my daughter or can nature Thus lie like truth! Yes, that blue eye is mine! And I am pictured in thy every feature. Are not my features his? Away, away! I'm lost in this abyss. COUNT LERMA and the KING. LERMA. Her majesty is in the antechamber. KING. What! Now? LERMA. And begs the favor of an audience. KING. Now!
A fond parent he was besides, devoted to his two sons, the elder called Louis and the younger Frederick; and from the outset he attended carefully to the education of the pair, choosing as their tutor a noted scholar, one Kenmat, while he allowed this tutors daughter Eugenia to be taught along with the princely pupils, and he also admitted to the group an Italian boy, Rafaello.
"Why, Delphy!" exclaimed Bernard, interrupting the flow of speech. "What's the matter with Moses?" Delphy snorted contemptuously and took breath for procedure, when the sharp cry of a baby came from Moses' cabin, and Eugenia broke in excitedly: "Why, there's a baby in there, Delphy! Whose baby is that?" "Git er long wid you, chile," said Delphy. "You knows er plum sight mo' now'n you ought ter."
"Whar be the filly hid, Tobe?" Eugenia asked, curiosity overpowering her. "Ax me no questions an' I'll tell ye no lies," he replied, gruffly.
In answer to her appalled look on him, he murmured apologetically, "I didn't know I was getting so much on me. It sort of spattered." It was, of course, as she led the deplorable object towards the house that they encountered Eugenia under a green-lined white parasol, on the way back from the garden, carrying an armful of sweet-peas.
"But I can economize in one way," she said, half aloud, and crossing the room she turned down the astral lamp which was burning brightly upon the table. "Don't, pray mother, make it darker than a dungeon!" petulantly exclaimed Eugenia, herself turning back the lamp.
You, who have been to a Court, and interchanged bows with duchesses, and I know not what besides nay, I do not accuse you; but if you had not been a mere boy, and an English boy-poor Eugenia herself confessed to me that you had a look a tender cleaving of the underlids that made her catch her hand to her heart sometimes: it reminded her so acutely of false Belmarafa.
He swept past Eugenia Frazer without even seeing her and brought up in front of the office once more, intending to send up and see if Jane had yet returned, but on the steps stood Leslie waiting for him. "She's gone to the woods up above the old quarry!" she said anxiously. "I've just found out. Benny, the kitchen boy, told me.
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