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"Your own shape is far better than any you can assume," said De Valette; "and by these silken locks, which, if I had looked at, I must have known, you cannot impose on me again." "Twice deceived, beware of the third time," said the page, laughing; and, breaking from De Valette, he was in a moment on the threshold of the door.
Carew smoothed down the silken book-marker, and began reading in a low voice. It is to be feared that the Psalmist's words of joy were not heard with understanding ears that night. A short prayer followed; softly and melodiously Mrs. Carew asked for blessings upon the bowed heads around her, and the servants left the room. "Have you not seen Christian since you went to see Mrs.
Once under the roof of that old thief, I can soon find my way to your apartment by the help of a silken ladder." "Oh!" she said, petrified with horror, "if you love me don't go to Maitre Cornelius." "Ah!" he cried, pressing her to his heart with all the force of his youth, "you do indeed love me!" "Yes," she said; "are you not my hope? You are a gentleman, and I confide to you my honor.
So the police had little enough trouble in 'sweating' him. He told everything he knew. And there's a wholesale round-up of the motor-robbery bunch going on this afternoon as a result of it. But what I can't understand " "It's as clear as day," insisted the Mistress, stroking a silken head that pressed lovingly against her knee. "As clear as day.
Then the woman fell down again as if dead. "My sister, little Marlinchen," "Ah," said Marlinchen, "I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything," and she went out. "Gathered together all my bones, Tied them in a silken handkerchief," Then he threw down the shoes to her. "Laid them beneath the juniper-tree, Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!"
I had peopled its broad plains with bright beautiful forms in silken attire, amongst whom a love of the elegant and the beautiful pervaded all classes of the community, and who in long ages ago had attained to arts and learning which it has taken us centuries of careful study and elaborate research to acquire.
A buff-coat, richly embroidered with silken lace, supplied the place of armour; and a massive gold chain, with its medal, hung round his neck. His black velvet bonnet was decorated with a string of large and fair pearls, and with a small tufted feather; a long heavy sword was girt to his side, as the familiar companion of his hand.
And all these greens were rich green beyond description; and yet the richness and the greenness passed even as we gazed upon it, going out of the gray clouds and into the sea, which assumed the exquisite golden pink of polished copper, while the hollows of the smooth and silken ripples were touched by a most ethereal pea green.
I was on the point of giving up in despair, and proposing an adjournment to the silken ottomans of the Kursaal, when I observed a young man lounging back on one of the objects of my quest, with his feet supported on the rounds of another. This was more than his share of luxury, and I promptly approached him.
In fact, if he knew the exact truth, he might take a reasonable offer for The Dutchman." Langdon nodded approvingly. He loved his subtle master; cards up his sleeves tingled his nerves, and loaded dice were a joy for evermore. Crane proceeded to unwind the silken cord.
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