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"I was so busy thinking that I didn't see you. I hope I didn't hurt you." "Nothing serious. Didn't you hurt yourself?" "I bumped my head a little, but it only struck the earth. If it had been a stone, it might have been different. I had no idea there was any one up here except myself." "It was very kind of you to bow so low to a perfect stranger," said the other, his eyes twinkling humorously.
"As for Mrs. Malcourt, she is not merely a trump, she is a hundred aces and a grand slam in a redoubled Without! if that's possible. But Mrs. Ascott is my pillar of support in what might easily become a fool of a situation. "And you, you amateur idiot! are down there in town, humorously awaiting the shriek of anguish from me. Well, you've heard me.
His physical excellence and ability had always been manifest. This morning, his grave, dark eyes, upturned to her face as he caressed Boyar, were disconcertingly straightforward. He seemed to be drinking his fill of her beauty. His quick smile, still boyish, and altogether irresistible, flashed as she spoke humorously of his conquest of the outlaw colt Yuma.
Perhaps you thought I was crying over it. Can you imagine me in tears?" she added humorously. "Hardly," said Grace with a frank smile that was reflected on the tall young woman's face. "No, I am not one of the weeping kind," she declared sturdily. "I come of good, old, undaunted New England stock. My name is Patience Eliot and I live just outside Boston.
Esther was at the door to meet her, and even in this outer air she could hardly help putting up her nose a little at the exotic smell. Madame Beattie was swarthy and strong-featured with a soft wrinkled skin unnatural from over-cherishing. She had bright, humorously satirical eyes; and her mouth was large.
In short, you want a level-headed clergyman about thirty-five years old who will mind his own business" The smiles on the faces of the vestry deepened. The ability to put a matter thus humorously was a part of Nelson Langmaid's power with men and juries. "I venture to add another qualification," he continued, "and that is virility. We don't want a bandbox rector.
"What's wrong with the court? They won't mind a bump or two, and I've ordered new balls." "I meant it's better not. I really mean it." He seized her by the elbows and humorously danced her up and down the passage. She pretended not to mind, but she could have screamed with temper. Cecil glanced at them as he proceeded to his toilet and they impeded Mary with her brood of hot-water cans. Then Mrs.
She threw herself into it, for now that she had made such a point of keeping her conscience clear, that was one way of proving she had not been superficial the more so as the years, in their flight, had rather enriched than blighted those peculiarities which had been humorously criticised by persons less interested than Isabel, and which were still marked enough to give loyalty a spice of heroism.
We rang the bell in an outer vestibule, ornamented with several pairs of antlers, when a lady appeared, who, from her appearance, I have no doubt was Mrs. Ormand, the "Duenna of Abbotsford," so humorously described by D'Arlincourt, in his "Three Kingdoms." She ushered us into the entrance hall, which has a magnificent ceiling of carved oak and is lighted by lofty stained windows.
At the Council board, where the King had now found voice, one alone sat humorously interested and amused the Minister of Fine Arts. He was not an artist himself had he been he would never have been allowed to occupy that position; he was a Professor of History, Teller by name, and more than any of his fellow-ministers he studied life.
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