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"Not too near me, and you'll go like a bird," said his lordship. "He's a nice little horse, isn't he? When I'm going to be married, he'll be the first present I shall make her." "He'd tempt almost any girl," said Arabella. It was wonderful how well she went, knowing so little about it as she did. The horse was one easily ridden, and on plain ground she knew what she was about in a saddle.
Then if there are stars, you can lie and try to count how many go into the patch. It takes such a lot. And just look at that tiny, rusty grate in the corner. If it was polished and there was a fire in it, just think how nice it would be. You see, it's really a beautiful little room."
However, on Monday, as Gervaise had a nice little meal planned for the evening, the remains of some beans and a pint of wine, she pretended to herself that a walk would give her an appetite. The letter from the asylum which she had left lying on the bureau bothered her.
A nice way she is going for a decent daughter. Why don't you see to that girl better you, ain't you her mother!" Melanctha Herbert had always been old in all her ways and she knew very early how to use her power as a woman, and yet Melanctha with all her inborn intense wisdom was really very ignorant of evil.
These men were not here just because they were glad to see him, of that he was sure. He probed their minds and even before Panek spoke, he knew. "The boss sent us to bring you to see him first thing, the boss did," Panek's voice was gruff, yet somewhat friendly. "That's mighty nice of him," Hanlon tried not to let his feelings show, but to take this as a natural courtesy.
I didn't have to be ordered twice to go and take a steamboat ride. I fetched the shore a half a mile above the village, and then went scooting along the bluff bank in the easy water. Pretty soon we come to a nice innocent-looking young country jake setting on a log swabbing the sweat off of his face, for it was powerful warm weather; and he had a couple of big carpet-bags by him.
He got near a thousand pounds out of my pocket the other day on that understanding. I don't speak about the money, but now it's a lump others would have made a nice row about it but is he a liar? Is he a seducing, idling, vagabond dog? Is he a contemptible scoundrel?" "He is my lover," said Emilia. She stood without changing a feature; as in a darkness, holding to the one thing she was sure of.
Grass because of a disagreeable husband who was not dead, "compromised" herself with a very much drinking gentleman from Boston because she sat in a small space with him behind the chimney for smoke from the engine, and I thought it was a nice word to fit into the conversation with Madam Whitworth at that time. And I think it did fit better than I had quite intended that it should.
She 'sisted, and 'sisted, till 'em brung you in here, 'case she say it cool and nice. Oh, Miss Alice so fine." "In Miss Johnson's room," and Hugh looked perfectly bewildered.
Chrissie collapsed into silence; but, veiled by her thickly-flowing hair, she grimaced to herself and scowled at her friend, who was regarding her with that air of enjoyment which it is impossible not to feel when a companion receives a nice little snub for her pains!
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