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"Well, first of all I see a very celebrated painter in a box a man who has improved considerably on the weak draughtsmanship displayed by Nature in her human figures, and the amateurishness of her glaring sunsets." "Who's that?" inquired Addie and Esther eagerly. "I think he calls himself Sidney Graham but that of course is only a nom de pinceau." "Oh!" said, the girls, with a reproachful smile.
"None at all, if you please, she doesn't wish her name to appear and has no nom de plume," said Jo, blushing in spite of herself. "Just as she likes, of course. The tale will be out next week. Will you call for the money, or shall I send it?" asked Mr. Dashwood, who felt a natural desire to know who his new contributor might be. "I'll call. Good morning, Sir." As she departed, Mr.
It was not, indeed, surprising that Abel Doe should possess another name; since it was a common practice among renegades like himself, from some sentiment of shame or other obvious reasons, to assume an alias and nom de guerre, under which they acquired their notoriety: the only wonder was, that he should prove to be that person whose agency in the abduction of Edith would, of all other men in the world, go furthest to sustain the belief of Braxley being the principal contriver of the outrage.
I had a little supper at Lady Harrington's on Sunday, en famille; Lord and Lady Barrymore were there. She goes on with her pregnancy. I found Beauc. sitting with his future, en habit de gala; he soon went away to the Opera, so I had a tete a tete. Mr. He is very well spoke of, et le nom est assez beau. Quinze goes on vigorously at Almack's.
"Nom du diable!" cried the commandant, when his lady's breath was gone, "what does this mean?" "It means, sir," answered Clark, promptly, "that you are my prisoner." "And who are you?" gasped the commandant. "George Rogers Clark, Colonel in the service of the Commonwealth of Virginia." He held out his hand restrainingly, for the furious Monsieur Rocheblave made an attempt to rise.
"Then Idaho has struck a new book," says I, "for the one he had was by a man who writes under the nom de plume of K. M." "He'd better have stuck to it," says Mrs. Sampson, "whatever it was. And to-day he caps the vortex. I get a bunch of flowers from him, and on 'em is pinned a note. Now, Mr. Pratt, you know a lady when you see her; and you know how I stand in Rosa society.
"Or Spain: or Sicily: or what about Majorea? Let's slip off alone in a nom de plume and an aeroplane to some place where no one ever goes, all roses and lemon thyme and honey-coloured cliffs and a bay of blue sea " "Should you like to be alone with me?" "Yes ... why not?" "Good!" said Hyde laughing. "I see no reason if you don't."
And he could have given them no greater punishment, for he took them from the firing line, and sent them back to wait among the reserves until the morning. "Nom de Dieu!" said Maisonville, wrathfully, as he watched them go, "they should hang." "The stuff that brought them here through ice and flood is apt to boil over, Captain," remarked the Colonel, dryly.
Mon bien Cher M. Reeve, Je ferai naturellement tous mes efforts pour vous rapprocher encore plus de l'Institut, et vous y donner un rang digne de vous; mais je ne dois pas vous laisser ignorer qu'il y aura lutte. Je ne sais s'il vous conviendra que votre nom soit discute.
You can, if you like, publish this little story about Florence and myself in some of your society gossip I do not mind at all or you can keep it quiet. You have but to say in one of your issues that the nom de plume under which your talented author wrote is, for reasons of her own, changed. You can give me a fresh title. The world will suspect mystery and run after me more than ever.
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