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What he would have said to the summons had the marches been already redd between Lex and Rex, and had the affairs of the Church of Christ not been still too much mixed up with the affairs of the State, I do not know.
'You almost convince me, said the physician, who had quite forgotten to help himself a second time to green peas, though they were the first he had seen that year. 'Upon my word, Herr Rex, you almost convince me. And yet you are a very young man. 'How old do you think I am? inquired Rex with a faint smile. The doctor examined his face attentively and then looked long at his hands.
Hastily catching up the letter, Rex walked, with a firm, quick tread, toward the study, in which the strangest tragedy which was ever enacted was about to transpire. "I am your mother, Pluma," repeated the woman, slowly. "Look into my face, and you will see every lineament of your own mirrored there.
"I hear you have come to audit the accounts," said Frank, leaning on the counter and opening his gold cigarette case. "Hardly that," drawled Jasper. He reached out his hand and selected a cigarette. "I just want to sort out a few things. By the way, your uncle had a letter from a friend of yours." "Mine?" "A Rex Holland," said the other.
With Korps students, the butterfly becomes sooner or later a crawling, philistine grub. The moral superiority of the worm over the moth is manifest in his works. Have you read your speech over? 'I know it by heart. Help me with the scarf, will you? 'Vanity of vanities! laughed Rex as he began to knot the coloured silk. Greif's costume is worth a word of description.
"I'm awfully sorry, Syd," began Rex, as soon as the three were left alone and had stepped into the elevator. "I never felt so disgraced in my life." "You did nothing wrong," replied Syd, pressing his hand against his forehead for an instant as if it pained him. "But what are you doing in town?"
You will renounce your engagement to marry Hilda von Sigmundskron. You will enter the ranks and serve your king as a private soldier, which is the only course open to a penniless gentleman. I know you too well to think you will hesitate a moment. My brother leaves a son by his wife, who goes by the name of Rex, and to whom he is now writing.
"Indeed, it is a perfect shame!" cried the colonel. Ruth had to laugh. "As I remarked to Rex, early this morning," her father continued, adjusting his eyeglass, "hang the Gomps!" Rex discreetly offered no comment. "Moreover," the colonel went on, bringing all the severity his eyeglass permitted to bear on them both, "I decline to go walking any longer with a pair of lunatics.
My host, the superintendent of the mine, was a shrewd but rather ignorant Cornish miner. He had married a Spanish woman, and did not mean to return home; but his admiration for the mines of Cornwall remained unbounded. Amongst many other questions, he asked me, "Now that George Rex is dead, how many more of the family of Rexes are yet alive?"
She had hoped he would clasp her in his arms, whispering some sweet compliment, then say to her "Darling, won't you sing to me now?" She swept toward the piano with the air of a queen. "I want you to sit where I can see you, Rex," she demanded, prettily; "I like to watch your face when I sing you my favorite songs."
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