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She threw open the blinds as she spoke, but carefully shut both windows again. "Oh, mayn't we have them open?" I ventured to ask. "The air is lovely." "If you like," my cousin replied. "Only, if you do, the sand may blow in." "Just at the top then." "At the top? I have not seen a window that opens at the top. We do not have them made so." "How funny!
"Daisy," she said one morning at the breakfast-table, "would you like to go with June and carry some nice things down to Mrs. Parsons?" "How, mamma?" "How what? Do speak distinctly." "How shall I go, I mean?" "You may have the carriage. I cannot go, this morning or this afternoon." "O papa, mayn't I take Loupe and drive there myself?"
"What's this?" he said; and he held up between his thumb and forefinger a piece of blue chalk. Victoire drew herself up and faced him gallantly: "Well, what of it? it is chalk. Mayn't an honest woman carry chalk in her pockets without being insulted and pulled about by every policeman she comes across?" she cried.
"Mayn't I ask some one to spend the day, mother?" she called, but Mrs. Graham was almost at the gate, nearly running to be in time for her train, and did not hear her. Mrs. Graham came home looking very white and tired. "Did Miss Addiscombe call?" were the first words she said. Louisa, who was bringing in the tea, looked meaningly at Dorothy, and went out without speaking.
Whoever has the nephew's ear, has the uncle's heart; or I should say, whoever has the nephew's heart, has the uncle's ear." "Mayn't we as well put hearts out of the question on all sides, sir?" said Buckhurst. "With all my heart," said his father, laughing, "provided we don't put a good living out of the question on our side."
'Though you mayn't know it, he said, raising his head, 'the Lord is a just and a terrible God, Bess; with a very strong sense of humour. It serves me right how it serves me right! Torp could understand it if he were here; he must have suffered something at your hands, child, but only for a minute or so. I saved him. Set that to my credit, some one. 'Let me go, said Bess, her face darkening.
"Well, if I'm a doin' all that, I can't go fur wrong, can I? And arter all, we mayn't like schools or schoolmasters, not over above, but we can't get on without 'em, I s'pose. But, look ye here, sir if I goes and tells you where you can get hold of this here boy, you won't go and wallop him now, will ye?" "I can make no bargains," said the Doctor; "I shall act on my own discretion."
"Isn't it going to get any tea then?" "Isn't what going to get any tea?" "It. The man thing you keep in there." "Yes. But it doesn't get it here." "I think you might ask it in. It might amuse me." Lucia ignored the suggestion. "I haven't talked," said Miss Palliser, "to a man thing for ages." "It hasn't come to be talked to. It's much too busy." "Mayn't it come in, just for a treat?"
But I want you to believe that my reason wasn't the one you thought. Now, tell me what you're going to do about Signor di Nivoli. Have you made a plan?" "One has popped into my head," I replied. "It mayn't answer, but will you give me carte blanche to try? If it doesn't work, I'll get you out of the mess in another way. But this would give us a chance of making Paolo eat humble pie."
She won't have to pay so much then, you know." He hesitated. "Do you think that's a thing that can be done?" "Oh yes, it can be done," she replied with an unmistakable emphasis. "But I mayn't do it? Mayn't I? It's all right if she doesn't know, you know." Miss Roots said nothing; but he gathered that she would not betray him, that she understood.
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