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"Yes, sir," replied the bookseller, smiling with evident pride; "Mr. Gladstone just bought it; I haven't a book for sale Mr. Gladstone just bought them ALL!" The bookseller then proceeded to tell me that whenever Gladstone entered a bookshop he made a practice of buying everything in sight.
It was Olga Petrovna herself, apparently not the least distressed by the recent tragedy. "Oh, what a pleasant surprise!" she said, smiling broadly. "You are just in time for supper. Kuzma Petrovitch is not at home. He is visiting the priest, and has stayed late. But we'll get on without him! Be seated. You have come from the examination?" "Yes.
I should think of you simply as a very honest man the most honest man I ever knew." Warburton's face glowed. "Should should?" he murmured. "Can't it be shall?" And Bertha, smiling now without a touch of roguishness, smiling in the mere joy of her heart, laid a hand in his. When Mrs. Cross came home she brought with her a changed countenance.
Farther on a beautiful headless statue of a woman had been discovered in the cella of a sepulchre, and he beheld it, again whole, with features expressive of grace and strength smiling upon life. The inscriptions also became perfect; he could read and understand them at a glance, as if living among those dead ones of two thousand years ago.
"I don't know. I feel so stupid!..." She had been smiling while she was telling this to him, but now she dismayed him by bursting into tears. "Eleanor!" he exclaimed, not knowing what to say or to do, and she let herself subside into his arms and lay there, half laughing and half crying. "I'm being a ... frightful ... fool," she said between sobs, "but I ... I can't help it!"
"When are you going back to England?" was a frequent question; and he assured them he now hoped to go before many weeks; and then, smiling, added that they would be certain to hear from him. As the crowd thinned out a little, Abigail Williams called him aside; "and did you really see the yellow bird, Master Raymond?" said she archly. "The yellow bird!" replied he dreamily.
"On the contrary," the Prince protested, smiling, "I need you, Dr. Whiles, so much that I am paying you a thousand guineas " "To remain in these two rooms," the doctor remarked quietly. "It is not your business to think that or to know that," the Prince said. "Do you accept my offer?" "If I should refuse?" the doctor asked. The Prince hesitated. "Do not let us suppose that," he said.
Shall we reread it together? when you come down to stay with us at Silverside?" "Indeed we shall," he said, smiling; "which also reminds me " He drew from his breast-pocket a thin, flat box, turned it round and round, glanced at her, balancing it teasingly in the palm of his hand. "Is it for me? Really? Oh, please don't be provoking! Is it really for me? Then give it to me this instant!"
"A little like hurricane weather," said the broadly smiling Charlie Webster, mopping his brow.
"Yes, I know you did," he interrupted gayly, "but do listen to that music." Honor rose, thus appealed to, and smiling an adieu to her first companion, she thrust her round white arm into Vivian's, as he led her triumphantly into the ball-room, where many couples were already on the floor. "See, we have lost some of it already," he exclaimed, putting his arm around her slender waist.
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