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Still there was storm in the warm, sweet air to-night and back yonder over the hills to the north, the sky brightened fitfully with lightning. Slipping his hand carelessly into his coat pocket for a pipe, Philip laughed. "My Lord!" said he lightly. "The hieroglyphical cuff! I should have given that to the Baron. . . . Themar," added Philip, packing his pipe, "is an infernal bounder!"
If I had paid more attention to it it would have been better for me." "What is it, Marian?" asked Jessica. "Wait and see," replied Marian. "Oh, it's a good one, and appropriate, too." After saying good-bye to Marian the four chums walked on together. "Are you happy, Anne, dear?" said Grace, slipping her hand into Anne's.
The golden locks had ripened to nut-brown, but still caught stray gleams of nestling sunlight. 'Twas with a foreboding regret that Herminia kissed Dolly on both peach-bloom cheeks at parting. She almost fancied her child must be slipping from her motherly grasp when she went off so blithely to visit these unknown friends, away down in Dorsetshire.
For ten years Echochee fed and clothed him, hunting alligators and watching her chance of slipping the skins to a market.
Slipping into the bedroom, she threw herself face downward on the pillow and sobbed herself to sleep. When she awakened, she found that the guests and Miss Wilson had departed. She prepared for bed and was standing in her night clothes when Mary came back into the room, a tearful little maiden. But Miss Wilson was unmoved. "I'm so sorry and ashamed," began Elizabeth.
"Thank you for letting me see her picture, and for everything you said about Captain Sherwood for everything, remember I want you to remember." With a light pressure of her fingers she was gone, slipping away through the shrubbery, and he did not see her again.
But now there was another Death’s Head in the room, a burly, headlong, infatuated male which drove headlong at the tumbler and clung to it, slipping, sliding, filling the room with a feathery tattoo of wings.
The raft, released from its moorings, moved slightly out toward the former position, the chain slipping into the water and dragging behind. Don was satisfied with the result of his idea and ran down to the spot where the logs could be readily edged into the water if the small ice floes were out of the way. He pushed and worked at the ice until a clear pathway of water lay before the logs.
"Do you know what I'm going to call you?" said Clifford, slipping a plump hand into hers, and gazing up into the shining brown eyes. "Princess Carmel!" And Carmel bent down and kissed him. Princess Carmel In the long talk which Cousin Clare had had with Mr. and Mrs. Greville in Sicily, it had been arranged that Carmel was to be sent to school with Lilias and Dulcie at Chilcombe Hall.
He remembered Lucien, whom he had met at Mme. du Val-Noble's, and bowed with a semblance of friendliness which the poet could not doubt. Des Lupeaulx was in favor, he was a Master of Requests, and did the Ministry secret services; he was, moreover, cunning and ambitious, slipping himself in everywhere; he was everybody's friend, for he never knew whom he might need.
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