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Verena coloured at the sound of her own words. "Well, I could see how much she felt, that time at her house." "What did she feel?" Basil Ransom asked, with the natural provokingness of a man. I know not whether Verena was provoked, but she answered with more spirit than sequence: "Well, you know you did pour contempt on us, ever so much; I could see how it worked Olive up.
At her words the breast of Shibli Bagarag took in a great wind, and he hung his head a moment to ponder them; and he thought, 'There's provokingness in the speech of this old woman, and she's one that instigateth keenly. She called me by my name! Heard I that? 'Tis a mystery! And he thought, 'Peradventure she is a Genie, one of an ill tribe, and she's luring me to my perdition in this city!
At her words the breast of Shibli Bagarag took in a great wind, and he hung his head a moment to ponder them; and he thought, 'There's provokingness in the speech of this old woman, and she's one that instigateth keenly. She called me by my name! Heard I that? 'Tis a mystery! And he thought, 'Peradventure she is a Genie, one of an ill tribe, and she's luring me to my perdition in this city!
She made no protest, but let him help her to put them on and wrap her up, while her godmother thought it advisable to walk toward the door. "Tonight was your moment, Madame," he said, in a low voice. "But the gods are often kind to me, and my hour will come!" Tamara summoned everything she knew of provokingness into her face as she looked up and answered: "Tant pis! et bon soir!
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