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"Look out you don't get lost!" said Eben, with affected gayety. "I am here on a little business for the old man." Herbert did not believe this, in view of what he had seen, but he did not think it necessary to say so. "Good-morning!" said Herbert, in a tone polite but not cordial. "Good-morning! Oh, by the way, I have just been inquiring the cost of a ticket to St. Louis," said Eben, carelessly.
I cannot describe the effect which her expression had upon me. I had never seen her before, but her look was not such a one as she would bestow upon a stranger. I had the most powerful desire to stop and speak to her, but having no right to do so, I should have passed on, had she not said to me, in the best of English, 'Good-morning, sir. Then I stopped, you may be sure.
"Madam, I have the most profound respect for your conscience and your judgment. I trust that no meeting between us will be less pleasant than this one has been. I wish you good-morning!" "Good-morning, sir!" Sharpman bowed himself gracefully out, and walked briskly down the street, with a smile on his face.
As I said, it was a good beginning, but a few days afterwards Padre Damaso, who was the curate then, sent for me by the senior sacristan. Knowing his disposition and fearing to make him wait, I went upstairs at once, saluted him, and wished him good-morning in Spanish.
Frowenfeld entered after him, calas in hand, and with a grave "Good-morning, sir." " m'sieu'," responded the landlord, with a low bow. Frowenfeld waited in silence. The landlord hesitated, looked around him, seemed about to speak, smiled, and said, in his soft, solemn voice, feeling his way word by word through the unfamiliar language: "Ah lag to teg you apar'." "See me alone?"
When Strauss met us in the street and called to us with a certain unction in his melodious voice, "Good-morning, my dear children in Christ!" our hearts went out to him, and it seemed as if we had received a blessing. He and his son Otto used to call me "Marcus Aurelius," on account of my curly blond head; and how often did he put his strong hand into my thick locks to draw me toward him!
He saw a bright steel axe working all alone and cutting down a big pine-tree. No man was near it. "Good-morning, Mr Axe," he said. "I think you must be tired chopping at that old tree all by yourself." "Ah, master," said the axe. "I have been waiting for you a long time." "Well, here I am," said Jack; and he took the axe and put it into his pocket.
At that very moment, the General made a sudden movement and woke up; but the same instant the Marquise was standing before him, her hands resting on the card-table; and smiling upon him, she said, "Good-morning, my General!" The General murmured a few words of apology, but she laughingly pushed him back on his divan.
Will you not come in and look at our many curios? I shall have the pleasure of bringing them to your hotel. What is the number of your room, madame?" Bow. "No, please do not bring them to my room, for I am always out. I will come in and see them sometime." "Thank you, madame, please do so, madame, we have many fine curios." Bow. "Good-morning, madame."
Cameron, who neither offered her hand nor gave any token of greeting except a distant bow and a simple "Good-morning, madam." But Mrs. Lennox was too timid, too bewildered, and too anxious to notice the lady's haughty manner as she led them to the library and then went for her son.
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