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"Rebuild it!" was Darsie's instant and daring reply, whereat the farmers' daughters laughed en masse, and the Percivals looked haughtily displeased. "Father built it!" "Awfully good of him! And wicked of his architect. I shan't employ him to build my house!" "I think," said Noreen loftily, "that we had better confine ourselves to discovering the scheme of decoration.
Dashwood, however, conforming, as she trusted, to the wishes of that daughter, by whom she then meant in the warmth of her heart to be guided in every thing, met with a look of forced complacency, gave him her hand, and wished him joy. He coloured, and stammered out an unintelligible reply.
Edward smiled at the characteristic reply, and told him it was an antique Irish sword. "A sword?" he exclaimed. "Isn't it short for a sword?" "All the swords of that day were short." "When was that?" inquired the boy. "Somewhere about two thousand years ago." "Two thousand years," exclaimed Gusty, in surprise. "How is it possible you can tell this is two thousand years old?"
Terrible secret you have said it!" "Do you, by any chance, refer to my mother's death? Is it that you knew all these years her murderer and have kept it secret?" There was no reply. She covered her face with her hands and turned away. "Am I right?" he persisted. She rose to her feet, goaded, it seemed, by his persistent questioning into a sort of frenzy.
Now, living generally, as you do, here in London, don't you think that men and women living in crowds often get off the line of truth and kindness? Don't you think that being all together, backed up, as it were, by each other as a soldier is by his regiment when going into battle they often become hard, brutal, almost get the blood-lust into them at times?" Isaacson did not reply for a moment.
Can you not read me for a thing that surely must be common as humanity the unwilling sinner?" "All this is very feelingly expressed," was the reply, "but it regards me not. These points of consistency are beyond my province, and I care not in the least by what compulsion you may have been dragged away, so as you are but carried in the right direction.
The porter who seizes one's luggage does not know when he is using French words or Arabic, or when he introduces Italian, Turkish, or Spanish, and cannot be induced to make an attempt at Arabic to a European unless the latter absolutely refuses to reply to his jargon.
"Let the signal be a few notes of the song Brighteyes learned from the white preacher. Go." Without a word of reply, the girl began to move gently forward, maintaining her recumbent position as she went, and gradually, as it were, melted away.
The young man did not reply, and the subject was dropped for the remainder of the ride home. Mary Stansfield and Grace Willerly were sitting together, about three weeks after the above conversation, in an arbour in the garden attached to Lady Willerly's house.
"Forgive me, sire," I answered, "when I say that I feared lest I should not please your majesty; and I was excessively desirous of convincing mesdames of my respectful attachment." This reply was pronounced to be fitting and elegant, altho' I had not in any way prepared it.
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