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You force the young girl to play the part of the ardent lover, and give to your monster the character of a cool, vain fop." "Monster? My God! she said monster!" cried Pollnitz, pathetically. "Fall upon your knees, mademoiselle, and pray fervently to your good fortune to forgive you; you have sinned greatly against it, I assure you.
A fop will gauge a man's worth by the size of his purse or the style and cut of the coat he wears. There are parents who would not mind their children's sitting beside a little darkey, but who do object most strenuously to their occupying the same bench with a dirty little Irish child.
Of course the account is absolutely true and the whole world could read it; only I don't intend a silly young fop shall think he can bully me on my own ship. Show Lathrop the statement." Kipping withdrew the paper and I began to read what was written in the log, but Roger now interrupted again. "Read it aloud," he said. "What in heaven's name do you think you are, you young fool?
At the halfway of the meal, a gorgeous popinjay he was a governor of an out-province driven into the capital by a rebellion in his own lands this gorgeous fop, I say, walked up between the groups of feasters with flushed face and unsteady gait, and did obeisance before the divan. "Most astounding Empress," cried he, "fairest among the Goddesses, Queen regnant of my adoring heart, hail!"
"FOP. Faith, Charles, I can't say she did or she did not, but we were playing the fool, and I took it
Had you been there with us, you would not have come here to-day. Get up, my lady, and return to your coach. Make way, there!" raising her voice. "Let that poor fellow," pointing to the ashen-faced coachman, "mount to his place. Be less disturbed, Sir Charles," to the trembling fop, "my friends will let you go free."
The train of Herstmonceux were but equipped for the hunt and in such weapons as they possessed the outlaws were far better versed than they, for with boar spear or hunting knife they often faced the rush of wolf or boar. "Martin! Boy, thou hast saved the young fop. "Dost thou yield, Norman, to ransom?"
Now amuse yourself by weaving a romance out of them and their owner." Amy seized them, and stepping inside the window, examined them by the candle. "A gentleman's gloves, scented with violets! Here's a little hole fretted by a ring on the third finger. Bless me! here are the initials, 'S.P., stamped on the inside, with a coat of arms below. What a fop to get up his gloves in this style!
"FOP. Why, really, madame, upon second view, it has not extremely the mode of a lady's utensil: are you sure it never held anything but snuff? "LADY BETTY. O! you monster! "FOP. Nay, I only ask because it seems to me to have very much the air and fancy of Monsieur Smoakandfot's tobacco-box. "MORE. I can bear no more.
The change of motive which already had had no slight influence on her own action and feeling had apparently ushered in a new era in her experience; but the sense of novelty in personal affairs was quite lost as she contemplated the transformation in the mercurial Strahan, who had apparently been an irredeemable fop.
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