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First, Gatty himself came to her, and, casting uneasy glances at the door by which his mother had just gone out, said: "Christie!" "My lad!" "I want to paint your likeness." This was for a souvenir, poor fellow! "Hech! I wad like fine to be painted." "It must be exactly the same size as yourself, and so like you, that, should we be parted, I may seem not to be quite alone in the world."
Some were killed and several wounded when the thing exploded. I afterward saw one of those who had been wounded and he told me about it. At this stage of the soldier's career he is always a "souvenir hunter," picking up and carrying around with him all sorts of things, from German bullets to big shells.
It was fairly to be assumed that his committee did not want his autograph to distribute for a souvenir; they must want it for some vital purpose, to meet some new move of the bosses.
Permit me to offer you some copies of our new prospectus, and also a photograph of this building, as a slight souvenir of your visit here." She fitted papers and picture into a square envelope stamped with an anchor in red ink, and handing it to Miss Gordon, walked to the door and opened it.
"Hear him!—slandering those brilliant occasions, everyone of which is a jewel in the crown of Aunt Mary’s bonnet." "We’ll begin by dining out," said Burnett. "I’ll give the dinner. One of the souvenir kind of affairs. A white mouse for every man and a canary bird for the lady. We’ll have a private room and speeches and I’ll get megaphones so we can make her hear without bustin’."
He was not a good son of the Church, but he was an excellent Christian all the same, and it was his pride to have restored so valuable a life. Gaston told me the whole story. "My child," said the Pope, "some souvenir of your own skill and kindness you shall accept from me; I insist upon it."
It was a memento-magazine. The tourists were eagerly buying all sorts and styles of paper-cutters, marked "Souvenir of the Rigi," with handles made of the little curved horn of the ostensible chamois; there were all manner of wooden goblets and such things, similarly marked.
So I made up my mind that this little old souvenir from Uncle Samuel wouldn't hang on my distinguished breast till I got back and paid Tom Slade what I owed him and made sure that he'd got his own Cross safely back and was wearing it again. Do you get me?" "I got my Cross back," said Tom, "and it's home. So you can put that on. You got to tell me how you got it, too.
"To throw it aside a week later?" lazily inquired Martel. "You are like the rest of these nineteenth-century vandals, you can see nothing picturesque that you do not wish to deface for a souvenir; you cannot even let simple happiness alone, but must needs destroy it in a vain attempt to make it your own or parade it as an advertisement."
The next day they embarked on board the steamer, and returned to Geneva. I have already said that Geneva is a very famous place for the manufacture of watches and jewelry, and that almost every person who goes there likes to buy some specimen of these manufactures as a souvenir of their visit.
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