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When Mattresse Aimable saw who it was she was so startled that she dropped her work, and made vague clutches to recover it. Stooping, however, was a great effort for her. Philip instantly stepped forward and picked up the net. Politely handing it to her, he said: "Ah, Maitresse Aimable, it is as if you had never stirred all these years!"

"Excuse me, gentlemen," he said, as he took a place opposite them, and began reading the papers of the day. "Bah!" said he, at last, "sont-ils grands ces journaux Anglais? Look, sir," he said, handing over an immense sheet of The Times to Mr. Gambouge, "was ever anything so monstrous?" Gambouge smiled politely, and examined the proffered page. "It is enormous" he said; "but I do not read English."

Only for "that"? "That" was everything, at this moment, to his long inanition, and the effect, as if she had suddenly and perversely mocked him, was to press the spring of a protest. "Isn't 'this' then riches?" "Riches?" she smiled over, handing him his cup for she had triumphed in having struck from him a question. "I mean haven't you a lot of money?"

"And plug the hole with that," he added, handing him a bit of wood which exactly fitted the hole in the deck. Watching for another lull in the blast, the hermit at last gave the order, and round they came as before, head to wind, but not quite so easily, and Nigel felt that they had narrowly escaped overturning in the operation. "Keep her so, Moses.

"Because," said she, "I knew you would try to take good care of my little Katie." "O, thank you ever so much, Aunt 'Ria," cried Dotty, handing the dolly at once to Prudy to be admired. But next minute her conscience pricked her. She had no right to a present. True, Katie ought to have known better than to try to swim; still, as Dotty acknowledged,

It was one of the bills I had given the piratical Negro there was no doubt about it. "Go up to Mr. Baker's store on the corner, Impy," she said, handing the girl the dollar bill, "and get a quarter of a pound of tea the kind he always sends me and ten cents worth of sugar cakes. Now, hurry. The supply of tea in the house happens to be exhausted," she explained to me. Impy left by the back way.

Will I be welcome as a boarder under your roof as long as I am looking into my old friend's books and papers?" "Not only welcome, but a protection to us, sir," answered Agnes. He took a set of ivory tablets from his pocket, with a pencil, and handing it to her politely, said: "Please write your answer." She wrote "Yes." The deaf lodger gave as little trouble as could have been expected.

"I suppose it means that the collection will be deferred," Morgon said, grinning over the city marshal's easy cut to generosity. "Indefinitely postponed," said Conboy, gloomily. "I'm goin' to put all my good cigars in the safe, and do it right now." "Here's something you may put in the safe for me, too," said Morgan, handing over his pocketbook. "Ain't you goin' to leave town?"

The barber loosened a screw in the back of the seat and removed the block with the cushion, handing it to his assistant. "The scissors, and a comb, Anton," he said briskly, lifting at the same time the heavy tress and judging its weight.

The honor of handing it is reserved to the sons and grandsons of France; in default of these, to the princes of the blood or those legitimated; in their default, to the grand chamberlain or to the first gentleman of the bed-chamber; the latter case, it must be observed, being very rare, the princes being obliged to be present at the king's lever as well as the princesses at that of the queen.