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Perhaps it would have been different had not the items always been, perforce, so much the same. There was so little chance to be "original" one must use the same little forms and phrases over and over again: "A large gathering assembled on Monday night at the home of " "Mrs. So-and-so, who has been here visiting Mrs.
One June day, on which she seemed to have withdrawn into herself all the tokens of summer, brought decision to our lover of artificial roses, who had cared so little hitherto for the like of her. Grand-duke perforce, he would make her his wife, and had already re-assured her with lively mockery of his horrified ministers.
Such, indeed, was his foresight that he had brought with him to London, and there left awaiting further need of it, that personal baggage which Loo had perforce left behind him at the Hotel Gemosac in Paris. They made but a brief halt in London, where Colville admitted gaily that he had no desire to be seen. "I might meet my tailor in Piccadilly," he said.
The hardest problem which confronted the givers was how to hang their offerings and slip away before the recipient opened her door and nabbed the stealthy donor. As there was only one door knob to each door, the gift baskets must perforce be set in a row before it. Each girl had private dark intent of smashing the ten-thirty rule and creeping out into the hall after lights were out.
"Will you abandon the idea of going on the stage, or studying for that purpose?" "Perforce. Father won't consent." A look of relief drove the trouble from the dark eyes fixed on hers. "I'll be twenty-one in a year, however," she added carelessly. John was wise enough to perceive the wilfulness that prompted this reply, and he deftly changed the subject of conversation.
In the towns he is warmed and fed and clothed so spontaneously and easily that after a time he perforce begins to doubt himself, to wonder whether his powers are not atrophied from disuse. And so, with his naked soul, he fronts the wilderness.
The doctor drove us in and out among the trees, and had once nearly turned us all perforce out of the buggy, having got his wheels locked in the stump of a tree. The speckled honey-suckers, yellow and black, chirped and gabbled up among the trees.
Allen accepted perforce and proceeded with his farewells, but as he was stooping down to kiss little five-year-old Kate Gould, something wet, cold, and sloppy came with great force on them both, almost knocking them down and bespattering them both with black drops.
"Oh, heavens!" said Manuel, "but I am embracing a monomaniac. Dear Freydis, whatever I might say would be perforce the same old words that have been whispered by millions of men to many more millions of women, and my love for you is a quite unparalleled thing which ought not to be travestied by any such shopworn apparel."
"Say, Wollaston Lee," she called out, and the boy approached perforce, lifting his hat "say," said Maud, "I hear you and Maria eloped last night." Then she giggled. The boy cast a glance of mistrust and doubt at Maria. His face turned crimson. "We just went in to find Evelyn." "Oh!" said Maud, teasingly. "You are mean to talk so," said Maria. Maud laughed provokingly.
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