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Sanchez followed close behind her, then came the artist, next his stout, clumsy wife, whom Ulrich had rarely seen, because she usually spent the whole day lying on a couch with her lap-dog. Last of all appeared the duenna Catalina, a would-be sweet smile hovering around her lips. The reception given him by the others was all the more joyous and cordial.
There was the simpering boarding-school miss of sixteen; the fat wife of a citizen with a baby in her arms, and another in anticipation; the lady of fashion, attended by her maid; the buxom widow, attended by a lap-dog, musical with silver bells, and there, too, was the elderly dame, attended by a host of grandchildren, to the horror of an old maid, who declares she 'can't BEAR young ones, which is true enough, literally.
Mrs. de Tracy laid, on the warm and smooth arm of her guest, one of her small, dry hands, sparkling with rings, and the procession closed with the companion and the lap-dog. In the dining room, the shutters were closed, and the candles, in branching candlesticks of silver, only partially lit a room long and low like the other.
Perhaps I will take a share in your luck, to make it ? to make it?" She played prettily as a mistress teasing her lap-dog to jump for a morsel; adding: "Oh! Algy, you are not a Frenchman. To make it divine, sir! you have missed your chance." "There's one chance I shouldn't like to miss," said the youth. "Then, do not mention it," she counselled him.
She had not then perceived how her fine clothes had been soiled in the brewhouse of the Old Woman of the Bogs. Her dress was covered with dabs of nasty matter; a snake had wound itself among her hair, and it dangled over her neck; and from every fold in her garment peeped out a toad, that puffed like an asthmatic lap-dog. It was very disagreeable.
"Lor' bless you, sir, the Kid don't know the word. 'E's just a puppy, sir, same as you see; a pet dog, so to speak. 'E's a regular old lady's lap-dog, the Kid is." "Well, you keep him away from my St. Bernards," says "Mr. Wyndham, sir," "or they might make a mouthful of him." "Yes, sir; that they might," says the Master.
Lemercier's coupe stopped beside the footpath. "What tidings of the Belle Inconnue?" asked the Englishman. "None; she was not there. But I am rewarded: such an adventure! a dame of the haute volee; I believe she is a duchess. She was walking with a lap-dog, a pure Pomeranian.
She passed, as she still passes her time, in the duties of an elaborate toilette, paying or receiving visits, giving or going to fêtes, and playing with her lap-dog. A strange wife for one of the most intellectual men of his day! And yet this total dissimilarity produced no discord between them; for she was proud of his acquirements, and he was indulgent to her less spirituelle tastes.
'Good heavens, Quin! cried the girl; 'he is but a boy. 'I am a man, roared I, 'and will prove it. 'And don't signify any more than my parrot or lap-dog. Mayn't I give a bit of riband to my own cousin? 'You are perfectly welcome, miss, continued the Captain, 'as many yards as you like. 'Monster! exclaimed the dear girl; 'your father was a tailor, and you are always thinking of the shop.
Everything that can most aggrieve the heart of man has befallen me here under his eyes. I have as much reason to complain of him as to accuse the reprobate natives of your city. He, no doubt, knows how to be avenged; the three-headed monster at his feet does not look like a lap-dog. Why, he would despise me if I should leave the punishment of the criminals to his tender mercies!
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