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"I wouldn't miss it for worlds." "I've been thinking about that," said Eloise, slowly, after a pause. "I suppose we'll have to be conventional." "Why?" "Because everybody is." "The very reason why we shouldn't be. This is our wedding, and we'll have it to please ourselves. It's probably our last."
"Isn't it strange, doctor," she went on, after a pause, "how we think we understand, and then suddenly awake to find we have not been understanding at all? Karl and I had a long talk yesterday, and in that talk he seemed able to let me right into it all. All summer long I did my best, but I see now I had not been understanding.
The single word sounded rather as a shriek than an adjuration; and so pierciugly it ran through the hearts of all present that the very officers, hardened as their trade had made them, felt as if they would rather have faced death than answered that command. A dead, long, dreary pause, and Aram broke it. "Madeline Lester," said he, "prove yourself worthy of the hour of trial.
And we are going to have gnocchi done in a special way with cheese. Gnocchi with cheese! Please please don't disappoint me." "But I haven't been very well the last two days, and I'm rather afraid of the cold." "I am so sorry. But it's absolutely dry under foot. I swear it is!" A pause. Then his voice added: "Since I came in I have refused an invitation to dine out to-night.
The ice was broken, however, and with less pause than at first, she now replied, "Alack! alack! she never breathed word to me about it." A deep groan passed through the Court. It was echoed by one deeper and more agonised from the unfortunate father.
The pause gave him time to think of another argument, which might otherwise have escaped him. "When we were married, me dear Jane," he said, "there was a detective in the room to watch the presents. Two of them. I remimber seeing them at once. There go two of the boys, I said to mysilf. I mean," he added hastily, "two of the police force." "But detectives at wedding receptions are quite ordinary.
There was another pause, then Markovitch broke out with: "I suppose you think I've been here trying to steal something." "Oh no oh no no " stammered Bohun. "But I have," said Markovitch. "You can look round and see. There it is on every side of you. I've been trying to find a letter." "Oh yes," said Bohun nervously. "Well, that seems to you terrible," went on Markovitch, growing ever fiercer.
"You hear her, Foster, and you, young maiden, hear this lady," answered Varney, taking advantage of the pause which the Countess had made in her charge, more for lack of breath than for lack of matter "you hear that her heat only objects to me the course which our good lord, for the purpose to keep certain matters secret, suggests in the very letter which she holds in her hands."
All the more readily might this happen, if the impetuous fisherman had a quarrel with some of his neighbours on hand at the very time, and was exercised in conscience about the duty of bringing it to a close. At the first pause, the current which had been for a time flowing under ground, burst out on the surface.
Be true and honest and fearless, and all shall go well with you and your work, and all with whom your work lies, and so with your parents and me too, Curdie, she added after a little pause. The young miner bowed his head low, patted the strange head that lay at the princess's feet, and turned away.
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