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It seemed more hopeful to abide by it yet a little longer than to adopt the throat-cutting system by the people, recommended by Wilkes and Leicester as an improvement on the old constitution. This was the view of Lord Buckhurst. He felt that threats of throat-cutting were not the best means of smoothing and conciliating, and he had come over to smooth and conciliate.
Dorry! come and be kissed by the Squire. It was Rose, living and glowing; Rose, who was the brilliant young Amazon, smoothing the neck of a mettlesome gray cob. Evan's heart bounded up to her, but his limbs were motionless.
He was smiling at me; there was a flush upon his cheek; his eye had a light in it, and with that a glow of tenderness which was different from anything I had ever seen; and it was glittering too, I think, with another sort of suffusion. His hand came smoothing down my hair and then touching my cheek while he looked at me. "What are you going to do with yourself now?" he said softly.
And after the allotted half hour had struck, she sat up, smiling at Ailsa, and, slipping to the floor, dressed rapidly, talking all the while in her pretty, gentle way about bandages and bones and fractures and dislocations. A few minutes after she had completed dressing and was standing before the glass, smoothing the dark, silky masses of her hair, Dr.
Agnes did not hear her, and as she reached the doorway, she started at the strange position of the parties Uncle Joseph still smoothing the curls which drooped over him, and Agnes saying to him: "You heard his name was Remington, did you not James Remington?" Like a sudden revelation it came upon Maddy, and she turned to leave, when Agnes, lifting her head, called her to come in.
I got it from him before midday, on my mere word that I was certain of an order from his Lordship." "You are indeed much to be envied," said the Lieutenant coldly, returning the two documents. "Ah, but I am just at the beginning. If you would favor me by smoothing the way to his Lordship, the Archbishop of Mayence, I in return " "Out upon you for a base-born, profit-mongering churl!
"Now, Topsy, let's see you do this," said Miss Ophelia, pulling off the clothes, and seating herself. Topsy, with great gravity and adroitness, went through the exercise completely to Miss Ophelia's satisfaction; smoothing the sheets, patting out every wrinkle, and exhibiting, through the whole process, a gravity and seriousness with which her instructress was greatly edified.
And to Madame Dalibard's astonishment, for this nature was wholly new to her experience, she saw him, even in that first interview, composing his rough face to smiles, smoothing his bluff, imperious accents into courtesy, listening patiently, watching benignly, and at last thrusting his large hand frankly forth, griping Percival's slender fingers in his own; and then, with an indistinct chuckle that seemed half laugh and half groan, as if he did not dare to trust himself further, he made his wonted unceremonious nod, and strode hurriedly from the room.
"Nor your brother," said Adolphus. "Nor your father, Johnny," added Mr. Tetterby. "Are you wet, 'Dolphus, my boy?" said his father. "Come and take my chair, and dry yourself." "No, father, thank'ee," said Adolphus, smoothing himself down with his hands. "I an't very wet, I don't think. Does my face shine much, father?" "Well, it DOES look waxy, my boy," returned Mr. Tetterby.
"Oh, I'm so ashamed," gasped Polly, coming to, and hiding her face on Mrs. Pepper's breast. "Don't you feel badly, Polly child," said Mamsie, smoothing her brown hair gently; "you're all tired out. The little brown house is all safe just think of that!" Polly thrust up her head and took one look. "Mamsie," she whispered, holding to Mrs.
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