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There are so many things I want, that I do not know which I want most." "I thought you had money enough to buy whatever you needed. By the way, how much money have you saved, Teddy?" "Let me see," reflected the lad, counting up on his fingers. "Why, I must have a little more than three thousand dollars in the bank. Mrs. Cahill is taking care of it for me, you know." "Fine, fine! That is splendid.
Willoughby has also written to me especially about his wonderful knowledge of our northern lines. Stay! Bring him yourself, to-morrow, at ten o'clock." "Splendid! Splendid!" cried the love-lorn General, rubbing his hands, as he hastened away in his carriage to meet Alan Hawke! "I am ready for him, if he is ready for me!
He has offered a big reward for information which will lead to the conviction of one or more of the chief culprits, and I am determined to get that reward with your help, if you will give it." "What is the reward?" I asked simply. "Five thousand francs," he replied. "Your knowledge of English and Italian is what caused me to offer you a share in this splendid enterprise "
Further, all those splendid vessels of burnt earthenware, as, for instance, funeral, wine, or water urns, five feet high; likewise, all of those vessels with a beak-shaped mouth, bent back, and either short or long. I have met with many very curious vases in the shape of animals with three feet.
She took pleasure and pride in his work, and showed it to me as something in which she felt an almost personal interest. For my part, I freely confess that, viewed as a national monument, it seems to me a grand one. What a splendid historic corridor is old Westminster Hall, with its ancient oaken roof!
In a handsome gold frame was a copy of Velasquez' Innocent X., that Stroeve had made in Rome, and placed so as to make the most of their decorative effect were a number of Stroeve's pictures, all in splendid frames. Stroeve had always been very proud of his taste.
Cousin, you are to be my cavalier if it please you; and my uncle and aunt will attend us." "I am devotedly at your service, Annie; and I will at least point out to you some of the dazzling beauties of our court the splendid Mrs. Bingham, the Miss Allens, and Miss Chews, and the brilliant Sally McKean." "And the lovely Cornelia Moran?" "She will not be there."
The Island of Snakes had been lost sight of for some hours, and the fresh breeze of evening was playing upon the cheeks of the Lady Nisida as she sat at the open casement of her splendid saloon, watching the ships that followed in the wake of that in which she was, when the sounds of voices in the adjacent cabin attracted her attention; and as the partition was but slight, and the persons discoursing spoke Italian, she could not help overhearing the conversation which there look place, even if she had possessed any punctilious feelings to have prevented her from becoming a willing listener.
L'Ami Fritz looked quite moved out of himself. He seized Anna by the hand. "I congratulate you!" he said heartily. "What a splendid thing to go on winning like that. I wish I had been there, for I might have followed your luck!" They all four walked out of the Casino. It was a very dark night. "And what will you do with all that money?" Monsieur Wachner solicitously inquired.
They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the real overwhelmed by the ideal. Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. They considered that they had already arrived.
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