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When my Richardsonian epistles are published, there must be dull as well as amusing letters among them; and this letter is, I think, as good as those sermons of Sir Charles to Geronymo which Miss Byron hypocritically asked for, or as the greater part of that stupid last volume. We shall soon have more attractive matter.

The reporter, who had appraised the pair more expeditiously than the inspector had their goods, hypocritically drew them out, asking their opinion of America and Americans, which Archie set forth volubly.

'What what what? cried Georgina, passionately; 'what can the most ill-natured, the most censorious, accuse me of? 'It is not merely the ill-natured, said Theodora. 'I know very well that you mean no harm; but you certainly have an air of trying to attract attention. 'Well, and who does not? Some do so more demurely and hypocritically than others; but what else does any one go into company for?

In desperation he called in Tommy Reames rather more than an amateur in mathematical physics showed him Evelyn and her father marooned in a tree-fern jungle, and hypocritically asked for aid. Tommy's enthusiastic efforts soon became more than merely enthusiastic. The men of the Golden City remained invisible, but there were strange, half-mad outlaws of the jungles who hated the city.

You see two rows of shoulders resolutely set for action: heads in divers degrees of proximity to their plates: eyes variously twinkling, or hypocritically composed: chaps in vigorous exercise. Now leans a fellow right back with his whole face to the firmament: Ale is his adoration. He sighs not till he sees the end of the mug.

The lumbering vehicle started on its way, and the journey began afresh. At first no one spoke. Boule de Suif dared not even raise her eyes. She felt at once indignant with her neighbors, and humiliated at having yielded to the Prussian into whose arms they had so hypocritically cast her.

The words were full of kindness, but they hurt Don Juan; he could not pardon this heart-searching goodness on his father's part. "What a remorseful memory for me!" he cried, hypocritically. "Poor Juanino," the dying man went on, in a smothered voice, "I have always been so kind to you, that you could not surely desire my death?"

Nor had she hypocritically affected the reverse, as ductile women do, when they feel wanting in force to do the other. She was not unlike Nevil's marquise in face, he thought: less foreign of course; looking thrice as firm. Both were delicately featured. He had a dream. It was of an interminable procession of that odd lot called the People. All of them were quarrelling under a deluge.

"Not whales?" I asked, hypocritically, suppressing a smile. "No, not whales," he replied; "something much more interesting." We followed him blindly, Lucy much in doubt what the thing might be, and I much in wonder. after Mrs. Wade's letter, how Lucy might take it.

Coloquinte was there with the stamped paper still on his head; and old Giroudeau told him again, hypocritically enough, that no one had yet come in. "But the editor and contributors must meet somewhere or other to arrange about the journal," said Lucien.