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The haughty sullenness of her countenance and manner, and the ostentatious extravagance of her dress, for she had not yet adopted the Venetian habit, were strikingly contrasted by the beauty, modesty, sweetness and simplicity of Emily, who observed, with more attention than pleasure, the party around her.
'He's a magnificent fellow, observed Lord B. 'Come, let us all go on deck. 'You have not seen my aunt, papa. 'True; I'll go in to her, and then follow you.
In my attendance upon the sessions of the courts I have observed some gentlemen of the legal profession who were graduates of distinguished law schools, but yet made very poor barristers. I have noticed others who never saw the inside of a law school, but yet made very able barristers."
It was, I take it, because he had sympathy for the creatures he observed, that their actions had stamped themselves on his memory, because he had seen them emotionally. We have seen how well he remembered the many sheep-dogs he had owned, how vividly their various characters are portrayed in his account of them.
Upon the furnace were accumulated in disorder, all sorts of vases, earthenware bottles, glass retorts, and mattresses of charcoal. Jehan observed, with a sigh, that there was no frying-pan. "How cold the kitchen utensils are!" he said to himself. In fact, there was no fire in the furnace, and it seemed as though none had been lighted for a long time.
With each new arrival there was a fresh bout of talk, that sounded like complaints and explanations; but I observed one thing, none of those that came late had any share in the division of my spoils.
"There are three mulattoes in that bunch over by the dune. And see that tall, skinny, dark man with the oilskin coat over his left arm? That must be Captain Bego." "He certainly looks like Vinton's descriptions," Norton observed. "And he's giving orders as if he " "Hark! What's that noise?" Breathlessly they waited and listened.
I have, in truth, observed, and shall never have a better opportunity than at present to communicate my observation, that the world are in general divided into two opinions concerning charity, which are the very reverse of each other.
'Trot, said she, 'I don't care for strange faces in general, but I rather like that Barkis of yours, do you know! 'It's better than a hundred pounds to hear you say so! said I. 'It's a most extraordinary world, observed my aunt, rubbing her nose; 'how that woman ever got into it with that name, is unaccountable to me.
A little after twelve o'clock a Battery boatman observed her coming, and hied him around to the police dock to have a look at the murderous pirates he had heard about, only to see her heading up the North River, past the Battery. A watchman on the elevator docks at Sixty-third Street observed her charging up the river a little later in the afternoon, wondered why, and spoke of it.
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