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"No, sing," said the little lad imperiously, and so the girl began to sing the thrilling love story of The Frog and The Mouse, till not only was Patsy's pale face wreathed in smiles, but the other children were drawn in an enchanted circle about the singer. So entranced were the children and so interested the singer that they failed to notice the door of the Stopping Place open.
Maillot sat plucking aimlessly at the margin of a newspaper, the tiny fragments floating unheeded to the floor; while Miss Fluette, strikingly handsome with her transparent complexion, her red-brown hair, and clear hazel eyes, sat imperiously beside him, alone in her assurance as to the outcome. The young man seemed to have forgotten her presence, so deep was his abstraction.
One evening, while a grand entertainment was in progress at the Hotel de Sairmeuse, he made his appearance, half drunk, and imperiously ordered the servants to go and tell Mme. Blanche that he was there, and that he was waiting for her. She hastened to him in her magnificent evening-dress, her face white with rage and shame beneath her tiara of diamonds.
"I have three children, Monsieur, three children," he repeated, in a supplicating tone. "Will you march!" replied Bergenheim imperiously, as he made a gesture with his gun as if to shoot him. Lambernier arose suddenly, and the expression of terror upon his countenance gave place to one of resolution mingled with hatred and scorn.
I shall have to leave my business to go to smash," he added, with a chuckle, "while I take my family into a barbarous land where every second man you meet has designs on a well-filled pocketbook " But he got no further, for Betty had run over to him and turned him imperiously around till his smiling eyes looked down into her gleeful ones. "Daddy," she cried, "do you really mean it?
La Cibot turned pale as death at the words; the words fell like a knife upon her neck. She stared wildly at Fraisier. "Listen to me, my dear child," began Fraisier, suppressing his inward satisfaction at his client's discomfiture. "I would sooner leave things as they are " murmured La Cibot, and she rose to go. "Stay," Fraisier said imperiously.
Never could he mistake the roar echoing there; it was the war-cry of Egyptian soldiers, the blast of the trumpet summoning the warriors, the clank of weapons, and the battle-shouts of hostile hordes. Ready for prompt action, he bent toward his yokemate, and whispered imperiously: "The hour of deliverance is at hand. Take heed, and obey me blindly."
"Alfred, dear, we may as well understand these little matters at once," said she. "What little matters, darling?" inquired Mr. Dinks, with interest. He was unwontedly animated, but, as he explained he had dined. "Why, this kissing business." "You dear!" cried Alfred, impetuously committing a fresh breach of the peace. "Stop, Alfred," said Fanny, imperiously. "I won't have this.
Merlin was listening to the clinking of ice and the fine laughter of all four at some pleasantry and that laughter of Caroline's that he knew so well stirred him, lifted him, called his heart imperiously over to her table, whither it obediently went. He could see her quite plainly, and he fancied that in the last year and a half she had changed, if ever so slightly.
There, at the extreme end of the line, stood a young man who, as far as appearance went, was the ideal Lord Finchley, as far as appearance went, a far better Lord Finchley than the late Mr Hill. He beckoned imperiously. "You at the end!" "Me?" said the young man. "Yes, you. What's your name?" "Rooke. Frederick Rooke, don't you know." "You're English, aren't you?" "Eh? Oh, yes, absolutely!"
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