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"Oh, Mr Cheney, pray forgive me!" she cried, looking more beautiful than ever with the flush which overspread her face. "I came in to ask about a word in your editorial which I could not decipher. I waited for you, as I felt sure you would be in shortly and I was so TIRED I sat down for just a second to rest and that is all I knew about it. You must forgive me, sir! I did not mean to intrude."
It was not etiquette to disclose the affairs of one client to another, but if there was a cantankerous customer, one who was never satisfied with prices and quality, that client was Miss Mapp.... He allowed a broad grin to overspread his agreeable face.
At last, just as the rosy sunset gilding began to overspread the landscape, Bessie Hennock, weeping into her apron, made her appearance without her companion. Her account of their adventures was curious. I will relate the substance of it more connectedly than her agitation would allow her to give it, and without the disguise of the rude Northumbrian dialect.
My compliments to Mrs. Nicol and all the circle of our common friends. P.S. I shall be in Edinburgh about the latter end of July. LII.-To MR. ROBERT AINSLIE. ARROCHAR, 28th June 1787. My dear sir, I write this on my tour through a country where savage streams tumble over savage mountains, thinly overspread with savage flocks, which sparingly support as savage inhabitants.
"Decline?" cried Count Tristan, breathing hard, while his face rapidly changed color; for at one moment it was overspread with a death-like pallor, and then, suddenly grew purple. "Decline? Such a thing is not to be thought of; you are jesting?" "I was never more serious in my life."
As he laid aside the last sheet a sudden pallor overspread his face, and for a moment he leaned back in the fauteuil, quite faint and exhausted. "Dearest sir!" cried the steward, hurrying toward him, "are not the papers all in order?" "It is just as I feared," said the count, sighing.
Then Dessauer relieved me at the stair-head as I went to approach my father. I saw a change in him, very startling, indeed, to see. "In the uttermost extremity" he was, indeed, as he had written. A ghastly pallor overspread his face; his eyes were wild, his breathing came both quick and hard.
"I don't know what you mean," said Julius stiffly, but a large and burning blush overspread his countenance. "Shucks!" retorted Tuppence. She laughed, and closed the door, reopening it to add with dignity: "Morally, I shall always consider I have been jilted!" "What was it?" asked Jane as Tuppence rejoined her. "Julius." "What did he want?"
In Rex's nature the shame was immediate, and overspread like an ugly light all the hurrying images of what might come, which thrust themselves in with the idea that Gwendolen was again free overspread them, perhaps, the more persistently because every phantasm of a hope was quickly nullified by a more substantial obstacle.
The infinite relish and gusto with which he repeated these last words of his are utterly indescribable; while the grin that overspread his fat countenance, wrinkling up its fleshy folds, can only be compared to the expression one sees carved out on those hideous gargoyles with which the architects of former days decorated the odd corners of our cathedrals.
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