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But one of the party had desired letters to be sent poste restante, Amsterdam. The post-office is hard by that awful palace where the Atlas is, and which we really saw. There was only one letter, you see. Only one chance of finding us. There it was. "The post has only this moment come in," says the smirking commissioner. And he hands over the paper, thinking he has done something clever.
She looked up at him with an expression of unalloyed pleasure. 'I am so glad to see you. I was delighted when I heard you were coming. 'I tried to get a smile from you at dinner but I couldn't. 'I didn't see I didn't understand. Besides, I hate smirking and telegraphing. Also I'm very shy you won't have forgotten that.
At the word "daughter" Mr. Snale grinned again, apparently to somebody behind me, and I found that one of his shopwomen had entered the counting-house, unobserved by me, while this conversation was going on, and that she was smirking in reply to Mr. Snale's signals. In a moment the blood rushed to my brain. I was as little able to control myself as if I had been shot suddenly down a precipice.
Hopewell must wait on him." Janice turned to see Joe Bodley, the fat, smirking bartender from the Lake View Inn, now entering the store. "Afternoon, Mrs. Drugg!" he called after the storekeeper's retreating wife. "I won't bite ye." "Mr. Drugg will be right in," said 'Rill, beckoning Janice away. Hopewell entered, violin in hand. He greeted Janice in his quiet way and then spoke to Bodley.
"Do you think I could listen to all that praise of myself and not blush?" said Rotha, turning aside. "I could just try me and see," responded Liza, with a laugh. "That's nothing to what Nabob Johnny said to me once, and I gave him a slap over the lug for it, the strutting and smirking old peacock. Why, he's all lace lace at his neck and at his wrists, and on his "
Alleyne crossed himself as he gazed at this unnatural sight, and could scarce hold his ground with a steady face, when the two dancers, catching sight of him, came bouncing in his direction. A spear's length from him, they each threw a somersault into the air, and came down upon their feet with smirking faces and their hands over their hearts.
On the contrary, he concealed it, as far as was possible, behind his burly back, and, looking down from the full height of his contempt upon the sinister smirking creature who advanced to greet him with that false smile on his face, he asked severely, "What are YOU doing here? That's what I have to ask. What foxy ferreting have you come down to Mambury for?"
"I think 'twas what you said to Mr. Pengarvin." "That little smirking wretch? What has he to say or do in this?" She looked away from me and said: "He is my father's factor and man of affairs." "Ah, I have always to be craving your pardon, Margery. But I said naught to this parchment-faced to this Mr. Pengarvin, that might offend your father, or any."
Monsieur, you are of her family. I can assure you that I have shown your cousin all the respect and consideration in my power." He looked at me as if I were some smirking carpet knight who prated of conventions when a man was dying. "Where is she?" "In my camp, monsieur." "Take me to her." "Monsieur, I must refuse."
Just now she and I were talking it over together. "We won't give you up, my child," I said, "to a common man! Only if some prince comes from foreign lands, and blows his trumpet at our door." But things didn't turn out our way. Now there he sits the man who is going to tear her away fat and flabby! Staring and smirking at her! He likes it! Oh, confound you!
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