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David had subsided, and once more began relighting his pipe; he looked up at the name. "Frank Seaford oh, did you? How is he? I haven't seen him for some time " "So I gathered," Peter remarked dryly. "He seems to be getting on very well since Ringsmith took him up." "Ah! Ringsmith's right. He's a beautiful artist. Did you see " Peter interrupted. "I think I've seen all Seaford's work.
One evening when he had waited until he was out of all patience with Aggie, he was told by his late and apologetical spouse that she had been helping Zoie to redecorate her bedroom to fit the coming occasion. "It is all done in pink and white," explained Aggie, and then followed detailed accounts of the exquisite bed linens, the soft lovely hangings, and even the entire relighting of the room.
Seeing himself thus firmly repulsed, he begs to assure her, on the word of a gentleman a commodity always on hand, and exceedingly cheap with us he was far from intending an insult. He meant it for a bit of a good turn nothing more. "Always fractious at first these sort of people are," pursues Keepum, relighting his cigar as he sits on the sofa, squinting his right eye.
The sounds, at first faint, grew louder and louder, plainly indicating that some person was suffering extreme pain. "I did not like this hotel, much, when we came in," said Jerome, relighting the lamp, which had been accidentally extinguished. "Nor I," returned Clotelle. The shrieks increased, and an occasional "she's dead!" "I killed her!"
If you want to know, it reminded me of those things in bottles in those herbalistic shops at Plymouth preserved in spirits of wine. White an' crumply things previous to birth as you might say." "You 'ave a beastial mind, Pye," said the Sergeant, relighting his pipe. "Perhaps. We were in the front row, an' 'Home an' Friends' came on early. Vickery touched me on the knee when the number went up.
He took back his move; not without a secret pleasure that she was not too yielding too much of the ingenue! 'We shall soon discover them, he said carelessly, relighting his cigarette. 'By the way, I saw what company you were in after lunch! You didn't hear any good of the book or me there! 'I liked them all, she said with spirit. 'They love their country, and they believe in her. Where, Mr.
When he reached the cell he listened, and heard Thaël's great bellows puffing and blowing, although no one had yet been appointed to succeed him. Gildas suddenly opened the door with his master-key, and saw before him little Sylvestre Ker actively employed in relighting Thaël's furnaces. St.
Orsetti and Malatesta suddenly find that their cigars want relighting, and turn aside. Orazio seats himself at a distance, and scowls at Prince Ruspoli. Nobili gives a quick glance round. An instant tells him that something is wrong. Prince Ruspoli breaks the awkward silence. He walks up, looks at Nobili with immovable gravity, then slaps him on the shoulder. "I congratulate you, Nobili.
Finally she ran into the proprietor, just turning from relighting the big lamp. The proprietor, being angry, rescued the accordion roughly; whereupon Anne pouted and cast appealing glances on her friends. The friends responded to a man. The proprietor set up the drinks. The music started up again.
We are now in mid-winter, and a more delicious season cannot well be imagined; the early mornings and evenings and the nights are very cold, but the hours from 10 A.M. till 5 P.M. are exquisitely bright, and quite warm. We are glad of a fire at breakfast, which is tolerably early, but we let it out and never think of relighting it until dark.
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