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"Dress up by all means, if it pleases you. It will be interesting to see the result. But, of course, I must be absolved from any experiments of the kind." "Oh, of course! And mother, too, if she likes, though I should love to see her made-up as Shylock! You must not see or ask about our dresses until the night arrives. They must be a secret. You will lend us all your fineries, mother won't you?"

"We cannot force our likes and dislikes," I said. "Well, you are married now, and part and parcel of him, and a wife's duty is to keep her own husband from hussies viscountesses or no they can call themselves." "What do you wish me to do?" "Why, tax him with it when he comes home to-night. Let him see you know and won't stand it.

"I am grateful to you for the compliment; but a woman likes to have her own way, and I intend to have mine as long as I can get it." Notwithstanding the wetting and cold to which every one had been exposed, few on board either of the boats complained of illness.

He is sorry to leave, and he likes going back at the end of the holidays, but as for any passionate, deep-seated love of the place, he would think it rather bad form than otherwise. If anybody came up to him, slapped him on the back, and cried, "Come along, Jenkins, my boy! Play up for the old school, Jenkins! The dear old school! The old place you love so!" he would feel seriously ill.

She will then possess a million, and can, if she likes, choose her husband among the sons of the peers of France. She is a daughter of the Casa-Reale." "Madame is right," remarked Solonet. "Why should she be more hardly pushed to-day than she will be fourteen months hence? You ought not to deprive her of the benefits of her maternity."

"The bank! you have grounded me on thorns." "Well, I'll tell ye: but you must promise faithful not to go and say I told ye, or you'll get me laad again: and I likes to laa them, not for they to laa me." "I promise, I promise." "Well then, I got a letter to-day from my boy, him as you was so good to, and here 'tis in my breeches-pocket.

Fancy her saying this is jolly after the grandeur she is accustomed to!" "No doubt she likes this better," retorted Ray. "Those very rich people don't do things any better than we sometimes not so well. Their parties are too stiff and formal." Suddenly Mr. Parker nudged his hostess. "Here comes Mrs. Brewster-Curtis," he said in a stage whisper.

"He's a spider goose!" said Sylvia. "And now, please, get out of the way. He won't eat if you watch him. I've got a good bit of meat, Betty," she continued. "It'll keep Dickie going for several days, and he likes it all the better when it begins to turn. Don't you Dickie?" "If you don't all leave the room, girls," said Fanny, "I shall have to report to Miss Symes."

"Where Louis XIV. met his bride, and Francois I. sealed his treason with his empty flourish " "Well, don't let us fight about Francois I. now; I want to know how Tom likes Eton." "He gets on famously. I am so glad he is in the same house with Hector." "Mr. Ramsden how is he?" "No better; he has not done any duty for weeks.

If she takes you then, she takes you with her eyes open, and she won't get tired of you and find out she likes some one else better. Promise me, John, that you'll wait till then. And I did promise, Kate; but I can't keep my word I can't wait in this state of anxiety and uncertainty, and perhaps lose you after all.