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"I suppose we must believe that Gloy is all right," said Lowrie, "so we needn't concern ourselves about his life at the present time." "He says he is still the prisoner," said Yaspard musingly; then after a long pause he added, "Look here, boys, we might as well go on with this night's performance as far as we can without our captive. "All serene," was Lowrie's reply; and Gibbie added, "Just so."

The heavens of international politics were as serene as the evening sky; not yet was the storm-cloud that hung over Ireland bigger than a man's hand; east, west, north and south there brooded the peace of the close of a halcyon day, and the amazing doings of the Suffragettes but added a slight incentive to the perusal of the morning paper.

"I suppose you do smoke, don't you?" "Occasionally with some people. Honestly, have you ever done it before?" "Four times," said Alicia, and then turned rose-colour with the apprehension that it sounded amateurish to have counted them. "I thought it was one of your privileges to do it always, just as you " "Go to bed with our boots on and put ice down the back of some Serene Highness's neck.

She was no great baby-handler, nor had she any of the phrases adapted to the infant mind; but that pretty little serene blue-eyed girl had been her chief thought all day, and she was abashed by recollecting how little she had dwelt on her own duties as her sponsor, in the agitations excited by the doubts about her coadjutor.

She shrank discreetly against the stone wall at her side, and there for three long hours she remained crouched, watching and waiting for the hour to chime when the grim black gate opposite would open. The last tinge of crimson and purple had faded before the golden glories of the day as the sun climbed higher and higher in the serene blue sky.

Before long every feathered creature was flying hastily away in amazement and affright. The army was drawn up in battle array, and the noble Coligny, serene and confident, rode along the lines. "Soldiers!" he exclaimed, "the time has come. The enemy are before us. We must beat them or die. Soldiers, if we lose this battle, the sacred Cause to which we have pledged our lives is overthrown.

No figure is more essential for social intercourse, or moves round the cultivated or political circle of his life with more serene success. To the great comfort of cultivated and political circles, the type of Swift is not so frequent or so comprehensible.

She blossomed and throbbed she was happy and appreciative. She was charming to everyone, but ran to Cameron for safety and kept her sweet eyes on Raymond. So secretly did she do this that no one but Cameron suspected it. The perfectly serene atmosphere that surrounded him and Nancy permitted him to understand the state of affairs.

Not boisterous or impulsive, like Sally, her nature burned with a bright and steady flame, white and cold to some, golden and radiant to others. Her form was slender, and every motion expressed a calm, serene grace, which could only spring from some conscious strength of character.

Its serene and soft appearance might pall if it were not now and then, and often suddenly, and with little warning, transformed into a wild coast, swept by a tearing wind, enveloped in a thick fog, roaring with the noise of the angry sea slapping the rocks and breaking in foam on the fragments its rage has cast down.