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"There go two words to that bargain," said Mrs. Starling after a half-minute's pause. "Two words have been spoken; mine and hers. Now we want yours." "Diana's got to take care of me." "Does that mean that she is never to marry?" "It don't mean anything ridiculous," said Mrs. Starling; "so it don't mean that." "I should not like to say anything ridiculous.
With a delicious feeling of content Sheen leaned back in his chair. It would be all right now. He felt that the matter had been taken out of his hands. A more experienced brain than his would look after the generalship of the fight. As the moments of the half-minute's rest slid away he discovered the truth of Joe's remarks on the value of a good second.
After the term of a length of months, could it be that the unhappy man and she were punished for the half-minute's acting of some interest in him? And Lord Ormont had been seen consulting Captain May; or was it giving him directions? Her head burned.
There, as soon as the majesties mount into their carriages from the station, they drive off as swiftly as their horses can trot, and their subjects, who have been waiting for hours to see them, make what they can of a meagre half-minute's glimpse of them. But how different was the behavior of that easy- going Majesty of England!
Meanwhile Edward and Cytherea, after lingering on the steps for several minutes, slowly descended the slope to the lake. The skiff was lying alongside. 'O, Edward, said Cytherea, 'you must do something that has just come into my head! 'Well, dearest I know. 'Yes give me one half-minute's row on the lake here now, just as you did on Budmouth Bay three years ago.
When it was surmounted the beasts needs must blow, though they pressed on willingly enough at a half-minute's end. A fairly level bit followed along the ridge of the foot-hill they just had climbed.
The lights remained lowered, and the company came forward to take the calls with the usual pause before Manders made his appearance, the usual extra half-minute's smiling and bowing. With practised unconcern he looked for a moment toward Eric's box and then looked away again, as though he had never expected to see any one there.
After the term of a length of months, could it be that the unhappy man and she were punished for the half-minute's acting of some interest in him? And Lord Ormont had been seen consulting Captain May; or was it giving him directions? Her head burned.
"Ah! but there are girls here who would give their eyes for ten minutes of Lord Lufton to themselves. You do not know how he's valued. He has the character of being always able to make himself agreeable to ladies at half a minute's warning." "Perhaps he had not the half-minute's warning in this case," said Lucy, hypocrite that she was.
"Whew!" retorted Pierce senior, "do you think I am afraid? I say that Arthur Channing stole the note lost by old Galloway." Tom, in uncontrollable temper, raised his hand and struck him. One half-minute's struggle, nothing more, and Pierce senior was sprawling on the ground, while Tom Channing's cheek and nose were bleeding. Gaunt had stepped in between them. "I stop this," he said.
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