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That evening, at dinner in the big Viceregal tent, he stood up with the badge and the collar of the Order on his breast, and replying to the toast of his master's health, made a speech few Englishmen could have bettered. Next month, when the city had returned to its sun-baked quiet, he did a thing no Englishman would have dreamed of doing; for, so far as the world's affairs went, he died.
"Would you have married my niece in your present state of mind, without fear or compunction?" Febrer hesitated before replying.
Dinsmore himself appeared at this moment, and Elsie, starting forward with clasped hands, and the tears running down her cheeks, looked piteously up into his face, exclaiming, "Oh, papa, dear are you going away, and without me?" Without replying, he took her by the hand, and turning back into his room again, shut the door, sat down, and lifted her to his knee.
But the more plainly we speak to each other the better. I come now to ask whether you will release Veranilda to me, instead of waiting until you are compelled to release her to the Greeks. Before replying, Petronilla clapped her hands, then stood waiting for a moment, and said at length: 'You can now speak without hearers. I did not think you would be so imprudent in your words.
The rich valley in which the ancient city of Lichfield stands looked peculiarly beautiful and fertile that day. Lady Stukely, whilst replying to the eager talk of her excited little boy, could not but gaze around her with admiration, familiar as the scene was to her; and even the boy seemed struck, for he looked up and said: "I hope the little prince will be pleased with our town.
"Yes, perhaps you are right," he said sadly, "though it would be a dreadful loss to Laurel Spring to us all if you went." "Do I look so VERY bad, doctor?" she said, with a half-mischievous, half-pathetic smile. The doctor thought her upturned face very adorable, but restrained his feelings heroically, and contented himself with replying to the pathetic half of her smile.
Courtland thought it well to call upon Mr. Ayrton in order to thank him for his kindness in replying in the House of Commons so effectively to the questions put to the various ministers by Mr. Apthomas; and Mr. Ayrton had asked Mr. Courtland to dinner, and Mr. Courtland had accepted the invitation, Miss Ayrton begging Mrs. Linton to be of the party, and Mrs.
His majesty was tossed to his heart's content; but after his aerial journeys he wished to laugh at those whom he had amused. He began by proposing that the queen should take part in the game; on her replying by shrieks of laughter, his majesty did not insist.
Gilder's thick gray brows drew down in a frown of displeasure, while his eyes opened slightly in sheer surprise over the secretary's unexpected remark. He hesitated for only an instant before replying with an air of great dignity, in which was a distinct note of rebuke for the girl's presumption. "The profits from my store are large, I admit, Sarah.
Then she asked some question regarding the purchase of some cutlery, and on her father replying she left the flat. After she had gone, he resumed the narrative, which was certainly of deep interest, as you will see. He went on: In the first week in January, a gay house-party assembled at Hawstead Park, Lord Teesdale's fine old Elizabethan seat a few miles from Malton, not very far from Overstow.
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