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"Coeranus!" she exclaimed, with stern reproof; but she failed to hear the senator's excuses, for her husband, Seleukus, followed her down the steps, and with a hasty sign to her, advanced to meet his guests. Theocritus was spokesman, and notwithstanding the mourning toga which wrapped him in fine folds, his gestures did not belie his origin as an actor and dancer.

Louis, too, sir. I will find a way to get there. I will make a way. And I will find a way to help myself along, and do what I can to help the rest, too." She spoke it like a princess. Mrs. Hawkins smiled proudly and kissed her, saying in a tone of fond reproof: "So one of my girls is going to turn out and work for her living!

On Besworth Lawn, of all places! and they used the word 'picnic. "A word suggestive of gnawed drumstick and ginger-beer bottles." Adela quoted some scapegoat of her acquaintance, as her way was when she wished to be pungent without incurring the cold sisterly eye of reproof for a vulgarism. Both Laura and Mabel, when they heard of the mighty entertainment fixed for Besworth Lawn by Mr.

They were old friends, and more than once in a youth far from model Tom had experienced certain physical reproof at her hands, for which he bore no ill-will. There was anxiety on his face as he asked: "There hasn't been any accident, has there, Euphrasia?" "No," she said. "No new row?" inquired Tom. "No," said Euphrasia.

The most gentle soothing, the most tender reproof, availed at last to quiet her; and she stood clinging to his arm still, and looking down into the fire. "I did not think it would be so soon," she said. "It was not soon to him, Elfie." "He told me to thank you for singing.

But he waved aside the attention with indignant indifference, and went on with his foolish reproof unworthy of record except for Gibbie's following behaviour. Beaten down by the suddenness of the storm, Donal had never risen from his chair, but sat glowering into the fire.

Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper. HOR. Art. Poet. 163. The youth Yielding like wax, th' impressive folly bears Rough to reproof, and slow to future cares.

Old Put at once accepted the reproof as intended, for it was well known that in moments of excitement, when carried away by the furore of battle, he had often used words which he would not care to review in print. He detested a coward, and when he met one in retreat he did not hesitate to employ strong language in expressing his opinion.

His conviction of the excellence of the English Constitution sometimes made him severe in the reproof of measures which he thought injurious to it; but his politeness and good temper prevented any disagreement even with those whose sentiments were most opposed to his own.

Sclater's, until its expression at length was that of pitiful unconscious reproof, mingled with sympathetic shame. He had never met anything like this before. Nothing low like this for all injustice, and especially all that sort of thing which Janet called "dingin' the motes wi' the beam," is eternally low had Gibbie seen in the holy temple of Glashgar!