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"Bandoola has a great reputation, and is immensely popular with them. From what you say, a considerable proportion of the fellows you met up there were Assamese levies, raised by the Burmese.
"Now, aren't you ashamed of yourself, sure?" said Mrs Gilmour, following up Bob's flank attack; his father and mother enjoying the discussion immensely, coupled as it was with the old sailor's comical embarrassment. "Tell me, now, aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
"Why Panshine, you know, who was here yesterday. He was immensely delighted with you. Between ourselves I may mention, mon cher cousin, that he is perfectly infatuated with my Liza. Well, he is of good family, he is getting on capitally in the service, he is clever, and besides he is a chamberlain; and if such be the will of God I, for my part, as a mother, shall be glad of it.
That sort of thing is lost in the sands of India, but it makes an oasis as it travels, and it sometimes seemed to me a curious pity that she and Anna should sit in the shade of it together, while Robert and Peter Chichele, their titular companions, blundered on in the desert. But after all, if you are born blind and the men were both immensely liked, and the shooting was good.
He rubbed his forehead as though it might have circles, too. "Which shall we hear first?" a voice asked behind him, "How you happened to bring little Robin here or how I did?" The words startled him more because of their tone than their unexpectedness. "I am immensely curious, I must admit, as to where you found Robin, but I feel that I owe you the first explanation."
By thoroughly dignified methods, scholarly analysis, and his natural poetical sense Hofmann introduced new ideas in virtuosoship which made him immensely popular at once. The question of progress in pianoforte playing is one that admits of the widest possible discussion.
This was his impatient way; but I made an effort, and sent off the other pieces to him in a hat-box. That was a year ago, and since then I have only heard the history of the smoking-table in fragments. My brother liked it immensely; but he thought it was too luxurious for a married man, so he sent it to Reynolds, in Edinburgh.
Temperly had 'known enough' to select, for the adornment of her walls, half a dozen immensely valuable specimens of contemporary French art. Her choice of other objects had been equally enlightened, and he remembered what Dora had said to him five years before that her mother wished them to have the best.
One of the children drew a bucket of clear, cold water from a spring and the three wanderers ate heartily and enjoyed the good things immensely. When Button-Bright could eat no more he filled the pockets of his jacket with cakes and cheese, and not even the children objected to this.
The Colonel also demurred on the ground that he was getting too old for such diversions, but Polly laid her hands upon his shoulders and coaxed him into acquiescence even a mummy must have unbent before such persuasion. As a matter of fact though, the Colonel was only too pleased with his invitation. It flattered him to be included with the young people, and he was immensely fond of Polly.
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