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The charm of his handsome, healthy zest came over her. She liked his naked throat and his shirt-breast, which suggested the breast of the man beneath it. She was extraordinarily happy, with him so bright. The dark-faced pansies, in a little crowd, seemed gaily winking a golden eye at her. After breakfast, while Siegmund dressed, she went down to the sea.
Then she turned her eyes, bright with unshed tears, down again to him. "But all seems right again!" she said with a sweet, sad smile, "now that you have come back, my dear ... dear friend!" "God bless you for these words!" "I grieved terribly when I heard ... about you ... at first ..." she said almost gaily now, "yet somehow I could not believe it all ... and now...."
I now thoroughly understand the working of your excellent agency, and I am sure that it is a scheme that will continue to flourish." "Till the Brothers form a Union, and go out on strike," replied Miss Buller gaily. "The demand already exceeds the supply!" She rang the bell, and a neat parlourmaid showed me out.
Then the eight gentlemen went out, arm in arm, talking gaily on different subjects, until Quelus said, "Here is a solitary place, with a good footing." "Ma foi, yes." "Well! we thought that you would one day accompany us here to meet M. de Bussy, who has invited us all here." "It is true," said Bussy. "Do you accept?" said Maugiron. "Certainly; we rejoice at such an honor."
He was in search of information about battles and tournaments, for he was writing his famous 'History and Chronicle. To get news of all kinds he rode gaily about, with a white greyhound in a leash, and carrying a novel which he had begun for the entertainment of ladies and princes.
"You won't take my advice," said Christopher at last, "but I can't help telling you that unless you're raving mad you'd better drop the whole affair as soon as possible." "Not now not now, " protested Will gaily, consumed by an artificial energy. "Don't preach to me while the taste of a drink is still in my mouth, for there's no heart so strong as the one whisky puts into a man.
The young people of the family were Rosamond, a girl of seventeen, and her brother Martin, a few years older. The first time they met, Elise and Patty took a decided liking to the Barstows, and Rosamond often spent the afternoon with them, while they chatted gaily over their work, or went driving with them along the beautiful Bois, or visited the galleries with them. The weeks went happily by.
Orion quite understood these last words; he asked after the young girl, and then added gaily: "She promised me a collar yesterday for my little white keepsake from Constantinople. Fie! Mary, you should not tease the poor little beast." "No, let the dog go," added the widow, addressing the governor's little granddaughter, who was trying to make the recalcitrant dog kiss her doll.
"As it is Eugenie's birthday you had better play loto all together," said Pere Grandet: "the two young ones can join"; and the old cooper, who never played any game, motioned to his daughter and Adolphe. "Come, Nanon, set the tables." "We will help you, Mademoiselle Nanon," said Madame des Grassins gaily, quite joyous at the joy she had given Eugenie.
The crowd was pretty dense by this time, and the hum of talk filled the room when, on a sudden, a voice, which I recognised as Bassompierre's, was lifted above it. "Very well!" he cried gaily, "then I appeal to her Majesty. She shall decide, mademoiselle! No, no; I am not satisfied with your claim!" The King looked that way with a frown, but the Queen took the outburst in good part.
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