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Jerry industriously puffed away; Alick stared up unblinkingly into a chink of blue between the tree-tops; and Ned gravely whittled away at a tiny boat of wood, one of a fleet with which he kept Miss Queenie so numerously supplied that it bade fair to develop into a Lilliputian navy in time.
"Why, of course," she answered; "I meant to have told you before." Then, more gravely, "It's about Robin " "About Robin?" "Yes. I don't know really whether I ought to tell you, because, after all, it's only chatter and mother never gets stories right she manages to twist them into the most amazing shapes." "No. Tell me," he insisted. "Well there's a person whom mother knows Mrs. Feverel.
"When all have failed and Leicester has won, then all yield place to Leicester," said the Queen drily. The look on his face was not good to see, but he saluted gravely and rode away to watch the encounter between the most gallant Knight Tilter in England and the stranger. Rage was in his heart, and it blinded him to the certainty of his defeat, for he was not expert in the lists.
"Indeed," says C., "her ring!" "Yes," says the priest, "it was found in her tomb." "It was found in her tomb only think!" says C., turning gravely to me. I had to look another way, while the priest proceeded to introduce, by name, four remarkably yellow skulls, with tastefully trimmed red caps on, as those of St. Ursula and sundry of her most intimate friends.
My! wasn't her coffee awful? I hope the cook book will better it." He handed me two limp bills and a handful of small change. I took it gravely and put it in my purse. This was really not bad more than ten dollars in less than twenty-four hours. "Parnassus seems to be a gold mine," I said. "Which way do you think you'll go?" he asked.
"Well, I wish I had known that." Calmly and steadily then Mavis rose, and a moment later Gray saw her in the door and his own heart leaped at the rich, grave beauty of her. Gravely she shook hands, gravely looked full into his eyes, without a question sat down with quiet hands folded in her lap, and it was the boy who was embarrassed and talked.
But even if you are, a great many things may be hidden in a clearing, and some people are tall enough to look over a high hedge. Betsy Lavender says some men tell all about themselves without saying a word, while others talk till Doomsday and tell nothing." "And tell nothing," gravely repeated Mark, whereat no one could repress a smile, and Sally laughed outright.
'The bearing of the weight of your harness, young man, Saxon answered gravely, 'is one of the exercises of war, and as such only attainable by such practice as you are now undergoing. You have many things to learn, and one of them is not to present petronels too readily at folk's heads when you are on horseback.
Wheaton, and Roger, from among long lines of curious and repulsive faces. The former kissed their hands to her, and tried to give wan, reassuring smiles, which their tears belied. Roger merely bowed gravely, and then, with an expression that was singularly alert and resolute, gave his whole attention to all that was passing.
"Well, too much taken up with considering each other. You may call such a mistake as that by what ever name you please; it at any rate means, all round, their case. It illustrates the misfortune," said Mrs. Assingham gravely, "of being too, too charming." This was another matter that took some following, but the Colonel again did his best. "Yes, but to whom? doesn't it rather depend on that?
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