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I didn't ask you to set the day. I set it myself. I told you to be ready." Her cheek flushed prettily at the remembrance of that impetuous courtship, when even her dread of her ogre brother had been overborne by the Cap'n's masterful manner, once she had confessed her love. "I know what love is myself," went on the Cap'n. "He don't know; that's what the trouble is with him. He ain't been waked up.
I suppose courage is a cumulative thing, if only one has time to accumulate, and these boys in khaki treated even the cannonading as if it were all "in the day's work." It was just dusk when the bicycle corps returned up the hill. They had to dismount and wheel their machines under the barricade, and they did it so prettily, dismounting and remounting with a precision that was neat.
Before they left the old farm, first Emilio and then Tomaso took grandmother Ruth's hand very prettily and said, with deep feeling, "Vi ringrazio," several times, and managed to add "Tank you." After his return from Portland the old Squire told us that he had gone with the lads to the place where they lodged and had taken an officer with him.
"It is the son," remarked a voice which I thought I remembered, and then my father followed me. "We are on board, Mr. Aiken," he called. "Never mind the boat. Get your men on the braces, or we'll blow on shore." "Yes, Captain Shelton," said the voice again. "You are on board, to be sure, and very prettily done. I have been waiting for you all evening.
He told me its barbaric botanical name, but it escapes me." "That which we call a rose," said Juliet, holding the perfumery to her nostrils and inclining herself prettily towards him, "would smell as sweet by any other name." O Youth and Love! O fortunate Time!
They are about starting off, when Mrs Gancy says interrogatively, "Why shouldn't we go too?" meaning herself and Leoline, as the daughter is prettily named. "Yes, papa," urges the young girl; "you'll take us with you, won't you?" With a glance up the hill, to see whether the climb be not too difficult, he answers, "Certainly, dear; I've no objection.
Here two sons were born to them; and when they were all discovered and carried to Rome, Peponilla prettily told the emperor that she had brought up two sons in the tomb, in order that there might be other voices to intercede for her husband's life besides her own. They were, however, put to death.
In a few moments the table was covered with a clean cloth, with knife, fork, and spoon neatly in place; and it was certainly not the rough maid down below in the simple kitchen to whom it had occurred to decorate the dish so prettily with parsley and radishes. The meal looked far more appetising than usual, and this was Gähler's work. "Where did you get the radishes from?" Reimers asked.
She had changed her festal dress, with its amplitude of flounce and train, for a closely fitting half-antique habit whose scant outlines would have been trying to limbs less shapely, but which prettily accented the graceful curves and sweeping lines of this Greyport goddess. As Islington rose, she came toward him with a frankly outstretched hand and unconstrained manner.
The captain left Betty's traveling-bag on the great stone doorstep, and turned to go away, but Betty thanked him prettily for his kindness, and said that she had spent a delightful afternoon. She was now warmly kissed and hugged by Aunt Mary, who looked much younger than Aunt Barbara, and she saw two heads appear at the end of the long hall.
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