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"And," said Bart, a little assertively, "I am not a school-boy." "So I perceive," said Ranney, coolly. "The fault I find with you geniuses " "We geniuses!! " "Is," said Henry, "you perpetually fly and caracol about, and just because you can, apparently, and for the fun of the thing." "Eagles fly," said Bart. "And so do butterflies, and other gilded insects."
And the girl fully answered to the Prince's description of her tall, sturdy, with the bust of a goddess, a real antique, a Juno of twenty, her chin somewhat prominent, her mouth and nose perfect in contour, her eyes large and full like a heifer's, and her whole face quite dazzling gilded, so to say, by a sunflash beneath her casque of heavy jet-black hair.
And I shouldn't let you care for me." "Why shouldn't?" "I'm not half good enough. My life has always been lived at loose ends. Nothing bad, but a thousand things that you wouldn't like to hear I'm not a golden girl I'm a gilded one " "Why should you tell me things like that? I don't believe it." "Please believe it," she said earnestly, "don't whitewash things. Just let me begin again loving you "
The editor, having access to those gilded saloons to which Lord Palmerston once made historic reference, or profiting by personal acquaintance with a Minister, obtained more or less full knowledge of what the Queen's Speech would contain. But he was bound in honour to preserve his informant from possibly inconvenient consequences of his garrulity, and so the oracular style was adopted.
Accordingly they got into a hansom, and Mrs. d'Aubigne having given the address in Pimlico, of which George instantly made a mental note, they started. "Come in and have a drink," she said when they arrived, and accordingly he paid the cab half-a-crown it cost him and was ushered by the woman with a simper into the gilded drawing-room.
In our home, everything looks like a Japanese picture: we have folding-screens, little odd-shaped stools bearing vases full of flowers, and at the farther end of the apartment, in a nook forming a kind of altar, a large gilded Buddha sits enthroned in a lotus.
At all events he stood his ground, scrutinizing with rolling eyes that portion of the hall where two columns, with gilded Corinthian capitals, marked the door of the room which no man entered without purpose or passed without dread. Doubtless he was thinking of that which had so frequently been carried out between those columns.
A gilded framework divides the ceiling into squares, circles, and octagons, the compartments of which are filled with pictures in oil; and the walls are covered with immense frescos, representing various battles and triumphs of the Florentines.
General Gourgaud, place the Emperor's hat also on the coffin." Then began the appropriate religious ceremonies, and during the following week the public were admitted to view the coffin as it lay in state in the Chapelle Ardente. The crowd was very great. Women fainted daily, and many were almost pressed to death against the gilded rails. After all, there was little to see.
Newly clad from head to foot in a scarlet suit of King Olaf's giving, Leif stood aft by the great steering oar. The wind blew out his long hair in a golden banner. The sun splintered its lances upon his gilded helm. Upon his breast shone the silver crucifix that had been Olaf's parting gift.
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