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But I had to sit and listen smilingly, and of course show none of my horror at their attitude, for more muzzling even than being a guest is being the betrothed of a Prussian officer.
Lily had two white ones. She walked up and down the block with a very grand air. Then Miss Chrissy met Margaret at the house of a mutual acquaintance, and invited her very cordially to call on her, and Margaret did the same. Miss Chrissy lost no time, but came card-case in hand, and made herself very agreeable. "Would you like to go down and call on Jim's girl?" Margaret asked smilingly.
"The understanding was that we were to win. You lost, and that ended the bargain. I should have shared the losses. I haven't forgiven you for that yet, you know." "How ungallant that would make me!" he said, smilingly, as he trifled with the long, thin, lacquered case. "You wouldn't want to make me ungallant, would you? Be a good fellow a good sport, as they say. Guess, and it's yours."
He still smilingly held out the keys. Fannie sat still. She tried to smile but turned very pale. "Jeff-Jack," she gasped, "you can't go. I beg you, don't try. I beg you, Jeff-Jack." "Got to, Fannie." He sat up in the bed. John thrust a pillow behind him. "Well, I " her bloodless lips twitched painfully "I can't let you go. The doctor says he mustn't, John." Ravenel smiled on. "Got to, Fannie.
Came Florence Grace Hallman smilingly from Great Falls, to canvass the town for "accommodations."
"Do I!" Dicky paused and squinted up at the tall Southerner. "What do you suppose I brought you out from your Consulate for to see the view from Ebn Mahmoud? And you call yourself a cute Yankee?" "I'm no more a Yankee than you are, as I've told you before," answered the American with a touch of impatience, yet smilingly. "I'm from South Carolina, the first State that seceded."
In despair, the king of the hoopoes then flew to the monarch sitting on his ivory throne at Jerusalem, and begged him to change their golden crowns for crests of feathers. Solomon the Wise smilingly gave the order; at once lovely red and black feathers took the place of the golden plumes, and the slaughter of the hoopoes in Palestine forthwith ceased.
Perhaps she might learn to like some one better than Her sober reflections stopped there. She could not bring herself to the point of breaking her long comradeship with the girl who had failed her. Uncle John Roland was still staring at her and smilingly shaking his gray head. "I don't know. I can't think, and yet "
He looked rather doubtingly rather confused; said something about "honour," glanced at Emma and at Harriet, and then seeing the book open on the table, took it up, and examined it very attentively. With the view of passing off an awkward moment, Emma smilingly said, "You must make my apologies to your friend; but so good a charade must not be confined to one or two.
Young Powell, a little shy notwithstanding the friendly disposition of the other, answered him smilingly, aware somehow that there was something marked in this inquisitiveness, natural, after all something anxious. His name was Powell, and he was put in the way of this berth by Mr Powell, the Shipping Master. He blushed. "Ah, I see. Well, you have been smart in getting ready.