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'I believe I can say honestly, that truth is one of my strong points, she parried lightly. 'I want you to be serious. I mean it seriously. I want you to tell me what determined you on marrying a rough chap like me? That letter thinking of you among those grandees, you talking a language that's worse than Greek to me, brings the wonder of it home.
"What on earth did you and Peter quarrel about?" she added, curiously. "I've often wondered," parried Nancy. "And you've never seen him since?" reflected Louisa. "No. Has he changed much?" "Well, some. He is gray and kind of tired-looking. But it isn't to be wondered at living the life he does. He hasn't had a housekeeper for two years not since his old aunt died.
They struck and parried, circling and dodging, till their lungs were on fire, and neither had strength enough left to strike a telling blow. The rage had gone out of them by then. It had become a dogged struggle for mastery. And failing that, there came a moment when they staggered apart and stood glaring at each other, choking for breath. As they stood, Tommy Ashe spoke first.
It is very obvious that they might have been greatly aggravated by slight changes; but it is not easy to see how they could have been more skilfully met and parried than by the measures which have actually yielded such brilliant results. The most signal triumph of Mr. Chase's whole system of finance is to be found in the truly marvellous success of his favorite five-twenty bonds.
He parried it with the reply, correct enough in form as in fact, that the disposal of his sister rested with the Dowager Empress. But her hostility to Napoleon was well known. After the half overtures of Erfurt she had at once betrothed her elder daughter to the Duke of Oldenburg.
But Philip, whatever else he may have been, was no coward, and had squared off to face me by the time I had run the distance between the stakes. He was heavier than I, though not so tall; and he parried my first blow and my second, and many more; having lively work of it, however, for I hit him as often as I was able.
"I do," said Dick, with the rising inflection which was his habit, when the words were used for a bait to catch another question. "Well, where is he, then?" Dick straightened up and smiled down upon her queerly. "Count ten before you ask me that again," he parried, "because maybe you'd rather not know."
"When when dost thou expect Philadelphus?" he asked next. "Why do you ask?" she parried. "I I have a message for him," he essayed finally. "Is he here?" "Tell me, who art thou?" the woman asked pointedly. A vision of the girl, flushed and trembling with pleasure at sight of him, flashed with poignant effect upon him at that moment.
Twice, stooping low, he parried with his arm, taking the slash with a gasp but thrusting as he took it, and each thrust struck home.
The priest continued, "Here is a boy I have brought you for a pupil, and your chief claim to fame may yet be that he worked here with you in your studio." Perugino parried the thrust with a smile. He looked at the boy and was impressed with his beauty. Perugino afterwards acknowledged that the only reason he took him was because he thought he would work in well as a model.
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