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His tone was airily defiant. "Well make me out a list of irreproachables, and I'll work them off in rotation between whiles!" The implication of that last subtly made amends: and she had a taste for the minor subtleties of intercourse. "I shall do nothing of the kind! You're perfectly graceless this evening! I suspect all that scribbling goes to your head sometimes.
How it brought it all back to me the other day when I found in The Gypsy the direct but belated offspring of The Savoy a poem to Nini-patte-en-l'air. And does anybody now know or care who Nini-patte-en-l'air was? Or who La Goulue and the rest? Would anybody now go a step to see the Quadrille were any graceless acrobats left to dance it?
Annie had got safe on the high seat of the wagon, and was balancing her little feet on the inclined foot-rest, when a woman came running across the street, calling aloud, "Mr. Lancy! Mr. Lancy! You're not going to drive away without introducing me to your wife!" She was a thin little woman, with movements as nervous and as graceless as those of a grasshopper.
Helena de' Franchi gave the news of the ban to Giuseppe de' Franchi. She had learned it from one of her damsels, who had had it from Shloumi the Droll, a graceless, humorous rogue, steering betwixt Jews and Christians his shifty way to profit. Giuseppe smiled a sweet smile that hovered on the brink of tears. "They know not what they do," he said. "Thy parents mourn thee as dead."
And our nature, so worthless and senseless beyond everything, so graceless and dishonoured, hath he made higher than all things, and established it upon a throne of honour, with immortal honour shining round. What harm therefore came to God, the Word, that thou blasphemest without a blush? Go to!
The graceless boy has robbed his father of a hundred and fifty dollars, and is probably on his way West by this time." "He was to start by the three o'clock train, I think," said Herbert, and gave his reasons for thinking so. Ebenezer seemed so utterly cast down by this confirmation of his worst suspicions, that Herbert called Mr.
I would my mother had been here, soon would she have persuaded you. And yet," he added, with the smile of his accustomed gaiety, "it would have been an unco thing, as we say in Scotland, for her ladyship to have waited upon you, as her graceless son has done, and hopes to do again ere long. Down the cliffs I came, and up them I must make way back again.
Dabb unfortunately did not know how much it takes to cure a man of anything. Miriam felt it would be graceless not to see her aunt, although she had no particular desire for an interview just then. "My dear Miriam," began that lady, without waiting for a word, "I do regret so what has happened.
The Committee in the first flush of funds had spared no pains to reproduce the right atmosphere, and in that atmosphere Commander Headworthy laudably endeavoured to train up his crew of graceless urchins, and to pass them out at sixteen, preferably into the Navy or the Merchant Service, but at any rate as decent members of society.
Then the fairy embraced her with great affection, and gave her a bag full of spun thread, to present to the King and show him what a notable and industrious housewife she was. Renzolla took the bag, and without saying one word of thanks, went to the royal palace; so again the fairy was quite angered at the conduct of the graceless girl.
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