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Harry was for going straightway to his mother in her bedroom where her black maidens were divesting her ladyship of the simple jewels and fineries which she had assumed in compliment to the feast protesting against the odious match, and announcing that they would go home, live upon their little property there, and leave her for ever, if the unnatural union took place.
He straightway immersed himself in business matters with the shrewdness and concentration that ever aroused his young brother's deepest admiration. "What a marvellous grip you've got on things, Luke!" he exclaimed at the end of it. "No wonder you are always on the top! You're great, man, you're great!" "I guess it's just my speciality," the millionaire said, with his weary smile.
'Yea, yea, said Gold-mane, laughing also, 'but he asked it not of thee. 'That is sooth, she said, 'but since thou hast asked me, I will tell thee that if thou slay him it will be my harm as well as his; and in my country a man that taketh a gift is not wont to break the giver's head with it straightway.
Say but the word, that thou wilt be mine own, your mistress straightway in a sack is sewn, and thou the sharer of my heart and throne."
She straightway got into her carriage and drove up to Cavendish Square, hoping to find Mrs. Francis Armour at home. There had been house-parties at Greyhope since Lali had come there to live, but this visitor, though once an intimate friend of the family, had never been a guest.
So, to take up life and begin again was no great evil. She saw her way. She would be brave and strong; she would make the best of, what was left for her among the possibilities. She sent for the lecture agent, and matters were soon arranged. Straightway, all the papers were filled with her name, and all the dead walls flamed with it.
"No," replies young hopeful: "they didn't say GUESS once." And straightway the fawning-innkeeper returns to us, professing, with his butter-lips, the greatest admiration of all Americans, and the intensest anxiety to serve them, and all for pure good-will. The English are even more bloodthirsty at sight of a travelere than the Swiss, and twice as obsequious. But to return to our American.
And when this vexed the young lord, and he said, "How now, sweet maid, you know not how enough to thank God and me for your rescue, and yet you speak thus?" She answered, smiling sadly, that she had only spoken thus to comfort the poor Custos. But I straightway saw that she was in earnest, for that she felt that although she had escaped one fire, she already burned in another.
It is a fine, airy, silver wine, such as fairies may drink at their revels, unharmed of it; but when a mere mortal sips of it, it mounts straightway to his brain, to the undoing of his daylight common sense.
And straightway she did. "What do you think of Mr. Breitmann?" soberly. "He is charming sometimes; but he has a little too much reserve. Doubtless he sees his position too keenly. He should not." "Do you like him?" "Yes," frankly. "So do I; and yet there are moments when I do not." The admiral filled his pipe carefully. "But your reason?" surprised. "That's just the trouble.
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