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I should be proud to talk this matter over with Lord Arranmore. We are staying at the Metropole, and if your lordship would call there to-morrow and take a bit of lunch, eh, about one o'clock if it isn't too great a liberty." Selina had never loved her father more sincerely. Lord Arranmore smiled faintly, but good-humoredly. "You are exceedingly kind," he said.
The marks are just as they were. Boards have been laid over them and nothing's been disturbed." "You're rather done up, old man," Terry remarked, smiling across at me good-humoredly. "Of course it's quite on the cards that Cat-Eye Mose committed the crime but there are a number of objections.
"Yes," cried Lady Sara, forcing a smile; "and now you have given him a striking resemblance to George Barnwell!" Sophia, who did not perceive the sarcasm couched under this remark, good-humoredly replied: "May be so, Lady Sara; but I don't care for his black suit: obedience was the thing I wanted, and I have it in the present appearance."
"Never mind the consequences," her guardian answered good-humoredly. And so it was settled that there would be a grand ball at Mr. Rayne's house during Christmas week; the invitations were issued and busy preparations begun by all hands. The long drawing room and library were opened into one, and all their furniture conveyed into other apartments.
"I heard about that blast," he said, and smiled good-humoredly. "Lee Chang was much worried when I went in to dinner. His one consolation was that you had eaten the tart before the oil began to fall." "We were all right, only of course it rather daubed us up," said Bob. "Betty had to wash her hair." "My hair's nothing," declared Betty scornfully.
"We shall get no breakfast, Mr. Armadale, if I don't say Yes," said the major good-humoredly. "Do as you like, my dear," he added, turning to his daughter. "As long as it ends in your grandmamma's managing the matter for us, the rest is of very little consequence."
When you's a trading, trade and git you pay, but when you's a trabelling with gemplemans and he family, da's no time for trade. Ef you open you box at dem times, you must jest put in you hand, and take out de t'ing wha' you hab for gib, and say, 'Yer Cæsar somet'ing for you, boy!" "Hem! that's the how, is it?" said the pedler with a leer that was good-humoredly knowing.
"I think it isn't honest." "Not discussing business principles, to-day," retorted the Doctor good-humoredly. "It's a question of taste now. You're ashamed of the proprietary medicine game, aren't you, my dear?" Esmé laughed. Embarrassment with Dr. Surtaine was impossible. He was too childlike. "A little," she confessed. "You'd be glad if I quit it." "Of course I would.
"Then I'll be captain if I'm asked," promised Dan, with the grin that always lurked close to the surface of his face. While hundreds of midshipmen felt desperately blue on the homeward journey, Dalzell had already nearly forgotten his disappointment. "You'll never be asked," predicted Hepson good-humoredly.
He smiled good-humoredly at their importunity, and replied "I am afraid my friend's history has nothing very marvellous or mysterious in it.
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