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I'd as soon wear a nose-ring as have Ralph wear a beard." "Why, everybody who is anybody in Europe wears a beard, or a mustache, anyhow," opposed Lydia. "I got to liking to see them." "Oh, of course if they do it in Europe, we provincial stay-at-homes haven't a word to say." Mrs.
I felt a liking for him and a compassion for him as he put his little kit in his pocket and with it his desire to stay a little while with Caddy and went away good-humouredly to his cold mutton and his school at Kensington, that made me scarcely less irate with his father than the censorious old lady.
Rachel seemed to see and hear a little of everything, much as a river feels the twigs that fall into it and sees the sky above, but her eyes were too vague for Evelyn's liking. She came across, and sat on the ground at Rachel's feet. "Well?" she asked suddenly. "What are you thinking about?" "Miss Warrington," Rachel replied rashly, because she had to say something.
The former had no liking for Rameau, who showed her none of the attentions her innocent vanity demanded, and she soon took herself off to her own room to calculate the amount of her savings, and dream of the Rue de Louvier and "golden joys."
Yet I have a kind of liking for the fellow, and my dream troubles me the star that fell from heaven." Tristan commented bluffly: "Hang the rascal while you can and thank heaven you are well rid of him." Even as he spoke the world seemed suddenly to be full of many noises and many voices.
Philip assented. "Caroline feels it as keenly almost as us. That is because she knows the man. Oh, he must be loathsome! Goodness me! I've forgotten to pack the ammonia!... It has been a terrible lesson for Caroline, but I fancy it is her turning-point. I can't help liking to think that out of all this evil good will come." Philip saw no prospect of good, nor of beauty either.
He had blue eyes and a long, sad moustache that swept down the lower half of his face and even below his chin, making him look older than he should. "I am for a Russian colonel," she said, liking his mild face. "That's right. Yes, a Russian colonel. Colonel Dellahousse. But can you manage by yourself? Can you really? I will tell him...."
At these honest words Dan tried to become honest too. At least he dropped his pretence of dignity, and became as a little child in his simple greed for sympathy. "But it isn't necessarily that; is it, mother?" "Yes, it's all that, Dan; and it's all right, because it's that. We don't like it, but our not liking it has nothing to do with its being right or wrong."
It was growing near to dusk when all their necessary arrangements had been made, and Starmidge was free to seek his long-delayed dinner. He had put himself up, of his own choice, at a quiet and old-fashioned inn near the police-station, where he had engaged a couple of rooms and found a landlady to his liking.
Everybody admitted, though, that he was a first-class engine-driver, and one who could always be relied upon to do exactly the thing in an emergency. This man took a liking to the bright-faced young brakeman from the very first; and, when Rod began to appear in his cab, he watched him with a real, but concealed interest.
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