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And besides, don't you remember that I foretold a mildish winter?" "I was forgetting that I had married a prophet," she smiled. But all through the day the snow continued to fall steadily, although the wind had died away and, at intervals, the sun shone palely. At nightfall, it was still snowing. The day passed quickly, as Nora found plenty to occupy herself with.
That gentleman seems to want to take our pictures on account that our mugs are such handsome ones, no doubt; and if it was a mildish afternoon, I shouldn't mind having mine done; but as the weather's rather nippy like, we'd better be toddling, I think. They then swaggered off, and crossed the Ferry.
'I will compose a beautiful, dutiful, modest, oddest, beseeching, screeching, mildish, childish epistle to her, and you shall read it, and if you approve it, we shall despatch it, said Clotilde. 'There speaks my gold-crested serpent at her wisest! replied Alvan. 'And now for my visit to your family: I follow you in a day. En avant! contre les canons!
Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. His travels were profitable to himself.
'I will compose a beautiful, dutiful, modest, oddest, beseeching, screeching, mildish, childish epistle to her, and you shall read it, and if you approve it, we shall despatch it, said Clotilde. 'There speaks my gold-crested serpent at her wisest! replied Alvan. 'And now for my visit to your family: I follow you in a day. En avant! contre les canons!