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I'll go fetch it; the expression is irresistible it is killing. Excuse me a minute." Miss Pritty rose and tripped she never walked from the room. During much of the previous conversation our hero had been sorely perplexed in his mind as to his duty in present circumstances.
De cane was wave in de wind, de garden smell like a bouquet, de white-cap was jump up and down on de river; seven belles demoiselles was ridin' on horses. 'Pritty, pritty, pritty! says old Charlie. Ah! Monsieur le Père, 'ow 'appy, 'appy, 'appy!" "Yass!" he continued the Colonel still staring "le Compte De Charleu have two familie. One was low-down Choctaw, one was high up noblesse.
"That is true, dear," assented Miss Pritty, with a tender look. "Now you speak like your old self; but you must not blame me for being so foolish. Indeed, I know that I am, but, then, have not my worst fears been realised? Are we not in the hands actually in the hands of pirates real pirates, buccaneers ugh!" Again the poor lady drooped her head and shuddered.
Peggotty, looking at the fire, 'kiender worn; soft, sorrowful, blue eyes; a delicate face; a pritty head, leaning a little down; a quiet voice and way timid a'most. That's Em'ly! We silently observed him as he sat, still looking at the fire. 'Some thinks, he said, 'as her affection was ill-bestowed; some, as her marriage was broken off by death. No one knows how 'tis.
What elegance of design, what columns of sculptured marble, and fine tessellated work stuck up where few people can see it, even when they try to." "True, Geo'ge. De water would run as well out ob a ugly fountain as a pritty one." "But it's not that I wonder at, Peter; it's the putting of such splendid work in such dark narrow lanes that surprises me.
"And if they do, a shot'll bring help." He was in the doorway, now. "W'y," he cried, "here's thet fool Norwegian goin' t' th' landin'. Wal, he is pritty shy on sand!" "We'll be killed if the Indians come, Dallas." It was Marylyn, whispering up fearfully to her sister. "We'll be careful, honey. Keep away from the coulée after this. Walk toward Brannon, always."
Miss Pritty, as if fascinated, leant forward, the better to observe her foe. Suddenly, like the lightning-flash, and without even a shriek of warning, she lost her balance and dived head-foremost into the bosom of Rooney Machowl! Well was it for the bold Irishman that Miss Pritty was a light weight, else had he that day ended his career in the jungles of Borneo.
Then throwing them apart she said brightly: "No, I say at Madame La Rose. Me, my room is all fill'. At Madame La Rose, I say, I think you be pritty well. I'm shoe you be verrie well at Madame La Rose. I'm sorry. But you kin paz yondeh 'tiz juz ad the cawneh? And I am shoe I think you be pritty well at Madame La Rose." She kept up the repetition, though Mrs.
Joe Baldwin was enjoying a quiet pipe at his own fireside in company with his buxom wife and his friends Mr and Mrs Rooney Machowl when Miss Pritty tripped up to his door and knocked. She was received warmly, for Joe sympathised with her affectionate and self-denying spirit, and Mrs Joe believed in her. Woe to the unfortunate in whom Mrs Joe alias Susan did not believe.
"You're a curious creature," answered Edgar, with a smile. "Is Miss Pritty at home?" "No, sir, she ain't." This answer appeared to surprise and annoy him. "Very odd," he said, with a little frown. "Did she not expect me?" "No, sir, I think she didn't. Leastways she didn't say as she did, but she was very partikler in tellin' me to be sure to hoffer you a cup of tea."
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