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At the foot of one of the mountains which skirt the Gulf of Genoa just a few miles east of the line which separate France and Italy, there stood at that time the dwelling of a well-to-do Italian peasant. That the man was above the majority of his class, his neat homestead, his thrifty fields and vineyards, and the general air of comfort which pervaded his dwelling plainly betokened.
"Do you think they really wouldn't mind being tidied up a little? I should so like to give that room a good dusting, if it wouldn't vex them." "My dear, they will probably never know the difference except by a vague sense of improved comfort. Men are dreadfully untidy, as a general thing, when left to themselves; but they like very well to have other people make things neat." "Mr.
Wilfrid unlocked one of the drawers in his desk. As he drew it out, Beatrice stole to him, and peeped into the drawer. 'How neat, Wilfrid! she exclaimed. 'What a pretty pocket-book that is lying there. Do let me look at it. It was a morocco case, with an elastic band round it. Beatrice stretched her hand towards it, but he arrested her movement.
No one thought that he would do as well as that. You know they are fearfully rich she can't escape having a number of millions. Don't you think a man of forty is to be congratulated on having what he has been looking for for twenty years?" Miss Hitchcock's neat, nonchalant enunciation gave the picture additional relief. "I don't see how he has the face to show himself.
Here they passed through the streets of small, neat fishermen's huts, and then entered the last building. A footman in a gorgeous livery received them in the small hall, and opened with reverential politeness the door leading into the only room of the hut. The three men walked in, and locked the door carefully.
It is further ornamented by an exquisitely neat representation of the arms of the unfortunate nobleman, with all their quarterings, and by a pen-and-ink likeness of herself. Several others of her works are carefully preserved in both England and Scotland; and some, as late 1711, were in the possession of her own descendants.
His personal beauty and grace of manner were most charming. Why, all the girls in New Haven fell in love with him," said Dr. Munro, "and wept tears of real sorrow when they heard of his sad fate. In dress he was always neat; he was quick to lend a hand to a being in distress, brute or human; was overflowing with good humor, and was the idol of all his acquaintances." Dr.
Her face was scarlet neat and formal again now, but scarlet. "I am so sorry if I have talked nonsense. I am rather run down, I think, too much work, four important meetings yesterday. I sometimes think I shall break down. I have such alarming nerve-storms." She looked nervously at Sarah Brown.
He drank a little, and now and again he would drive off somewhere and stay away for a bit; but when he did come home again things never seemed to go well with him, and that was the pity of it! An evil spirit seemed to have got hold of him, said Lars. And Fruen? Fruen! She went about the house as before, and played on her piano, and was as pretty and neat as ever any one could wish.
When it is finally drawn to the side of the boat, a heavy, well-directed blow upon the nose completely stuns the creature, and the capture is then complete. There are here some neat public squares, a public park, wherein a military band plays occasionally, and half a dozen churches.
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