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But Miss Demolines, when she found herself seated, and perceived that on the other side of her was Mr Ponsonby, a married man, commenced her enterprise at once, and our friend John Eames was immediately aware that he would have no difficulty as to conversation. "Don't you like winter dinner-parties?" began Miss Demolines.
"I blushed for you. I almost felt ashamed, after all the president said, that you had given so little." "You seem, Miss Eschelle," remarked Mr. Ponsonby, "to be enthusiastic about the education and elevation of the colored people." "Yes, I am; I quite share Mr. Henderson's feeling about it. I'm for the elevation of everything."
The we was a masterpiece of loyalty, and French was suitably impressed by it. "Dear Mrs. Ponsonby," he said, "you speak as if I were likely to misjudge Simeon, whereas my object in coming here was to prevent your misjudging him by allowing your sensitive conscience to forbid pleasures he would be the first to suggest."
I'd got no faith in man nor woman left, and I'd got nothing but suspicion by my honesty; so why should I not give in to the way of the world, and try if it would serve me. But then, my Lord, it struck me that if I had nothing else, I had still my God left. Louis grasped his hand. 'Yes, I'm thankful that Miss Ponsonby asked me to read to the Cornish miners, said Madison.
Negotiation was the strong ground of the government, and they kept it. Finally, the bill was introduced by the Chief Secretary, and warmly supported by Grattan, Curran, Ponsonby, Forbes, and Hutchinson, Provost of Trinity College. It was resisted in the Lower House by Mr. Speaker Foster, Mr. Ogle, and Dr.
He told himself that he was fortunate when he discovered Claire, with Lionel on one side of her and Ponsonby on the other; he had wanted the help of an audience; now he was going to have one. Claire saw him before the others did, and skated swiftly across to him. "But why don't you put your skates on?" she said, pointing to them in his hand. "You're not much good there, you know, on the bank."
"I wish she had shown a little more emotion at his going," was Stephen's reflection as he helped her out, forgetting how he had dreaded any evidence of distress; but he only said: "May I come back to tea, Mrs. Ponsonby? I should like to talk this over with Simeon to-night."
Paul's and Westminster Abbey! The organ was played while I was there, and there was an anthem beautifully chanted by voices that came from afar off and remotely above, as if out of a sunny sky. Meanwhile I looked at such monuments as were near; chiefly those erected to military or naval men, Picton, General Ponsonby, Lord St.
Is there poison in the dish? Or do you live only on fruit and flowers? continued Miss Ponsonby. 'Do you know, she added, with an arch smile, 'I think you must be a ghoul. A sort of smile struggled with a scowl over the haughty countenance of the Englishman. 'You will come! said Miss Ponsonby, most winningly. 'I have already trespassed too much upon Major Ponsonby's hospitality, muttered Mr.
Ponsonby looked redder than usual, and then laughed, and said, "Well, I was only three years old when I left Halifax." "I knew it!" cried Carmen, clapping her hands. "Now come in and have a cup of English breakfast tea. That's imitation, too." "The mistake you made," said Margaret, "was not being born in Spain." "Perhaps it's not irreparable," the count interposed, with an air of gallantry.
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