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Devine found out that the lady was the daughter of a very rich tradesman, and he was not by any means displeased, for romantic actors have just as keen an eye to business as other folk. Before the pleasant afternoon closed, he had gained permission to call the truant Letty, and she primmed her rosy lips as he taught her to say Will. Decidedly Mr. Devine was no laggard in love.

'You are kind, said the Countess, smiling internally at the vulgar creature's misconception of Evan's requirements. 'Did he ever talk much about Mary Fence? asked Mrs. Wishaw. "Polly Fence," he used to say, "sweet Polly Fence!" 'Oh! I think so. Frequently, observed the Countess. Mrs. Fiske primmed her mouth. She had never heard the great Mel allude to the name of Fence.

He saw the fine thin lips, like a woman's, primmed in satisfaction. He heard words of compliment "none so swift and certain as you" "in truth, a master-hand" "I know not where to look for your like." Delicious speeches seemed to soothe his ear. And gold, too, bags of it, the tale of which would never appear in any accompt-book. Nay, his fancy soared higher.

Her arms were folded, her mouth primmed into an expression of respect, mingled with obstinacy, her whole mind apparently bent up to the solemn interview. But at present her mistress was far too indignant for such condescension.

Her arms were folded, her mouth primmed into an expression of respect, mingled with obstinacy, her whole mind apparently bent up to the solemn interview. But at present her mistress was far too indignant for such condescension.

'It is at Steynham. Rosamund primmed her lips at the success of her probing touch; but she was unaware of the chief reason for his doting on those fair locks, and how they coloured his imagination since the day of the drive into Bevisham. 'Now leave me, my dear Nevil, she said. 'Lord Romfrey will soon be here, and it is as well for the moment that you should not meet him, if it can be avoided.

Evening dress was becoming to Geoffrey. The Ladies' Society fluttered at sight of him, and primmed itself, and shook out its skirts. Geoffrey's face was radiant over his white tie. He had planned a cozy evening in his own room, with a new treatise on orthopaedics that had just come; but no one would have thought that he took delight in anything except Society meetings.

I repeated something out of Dean Swift and she said I was fit for the stage and you may think I was primmed up with majestick Pride but upon my word I felt myselfe turn a little birsay birsay is a word which is a word that William composed which is as you may suppose a little enraged.

I am under a fine servitude now;" and she primmed up her mouth, but her eye laughed, "little Miss here, chooses to be waited on by me, and me only; and here I am, with nothing to do but to attend on my lady." "Little Miss," said Mr. Dymock, "what little Miss? who have you got there?" "Neither more nor less," replied Mrs. Margaret, "than your foundling." "Impossible!" said Mr.

Miss Paynham primmed her mouth, admitting to herself her inability to repeat such a tale; an act that she deemed not 'quite like a lady. She had previously come to the conclusion that Mrs. Warwick, with all her generous qualities, was deficient in delicate sentiment owing perhaps to her coldness of temperament. Like Dacier also, she failed to comprehend the patronage of Mr.