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"The princess receives no one," said the servant, placing himself in a position to prevent the stranger's entrance. "She will receive me," said the unknown, dropping some gold-pieces into the servant's hand. "I will conduct you to her," said the suddenly mollified servant, "but I do it on your own responsibility." Princess Natalie was in her boudoir.
"It's worth anything to the man that loves it," was the Romany's response. He was mollified by the praise he had received.
But whether we poled our log canoe up to some stunted old willow-tree that sat low in the horizontal marsh, and took shelter under it to smoke our pipes, or whether we mollified the privation of snipe in the cabane at night with mellow rum and tobacco brought by me, still was Walker the old voyageur's favorite theme.
He's so egotistical, is Dangle. Always wants to mismanage everything himself." "He means to help me," said Mrs. Milton, a little reproachfully, touching his arm. Widgery was hardly in the mood to be mollified all at once. "He need not prevent ME," he said, and stopped. "It's no good talking, you know, and you are tired." "I can go on," she said brightly, "if only we find her."
William did not care at first to go near him, but the man continuing to make signals to him to come, at last William went; and the Dutchman told him that he had been with the general, who was much mollified by the slaughter of his men, and that now he could have anything of him. "Anything!" says William; "what have we to do with him?
Nothing was said of the fortune, which mollified Doctor Yardley a good deal, since he would be left to manage it, or at least to receive the income so long as no legal claimant interfered with his control. Elderly gentlemen submit very easily to this sort of influence.
"Because she wanted us to be good girls, and not worry you with questions," replied Nancy. "Oh! Well, that's all right," said the Squire, mollified. "Now what I want to know is did Cicely say anything to either of you about going away like this?" "Oh no, father," replied the twins, with one voice. "Well, I'm determined to get to the bottom of it.
"I am so anxious not to get what you call 'the sack' from here." The sub-editor, mollified, thought the staff need be under no apprehension, provided it showed itself teachable. "I have been rather a worthless fellow, Miss Hope," confessed Dick Danvers. "I was beginning to despair of myself till I came across you and your father.
I was nervous and exhausted, and in no condition to be scolded by anyone, so I said: "If you were not an old bachelor you would have known better than to have told a woman not to do a thing you would have known that, in all probability, that would be the very thing she would do first!" That mollified him a little, but we did not laugh life had just been too serious for that.
But Pearl, not a whit startled at her mother's threats any more than mollified by her entreaties, now suddenly burst into a fit of passion, gesticulating violently, and throwing her small figure into the most extravagant contortions.
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