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Three days after that wild drive she left Russia left Russia and came " "To you!" cried Blake. "What a superb situation! She came back to you the companion of her youth to you, adventuring here in your own odd way! Oh, boy, it's great!" "It is strange yes!" said Max, suddenly curbing himself. "Strange? It's stupendous!"
And every now and then she would come down riding like a Brunhilde, with her hair all blown about her and her eyes Ach, superb!" The little dowdy woman threw up her hands. Her neighbour's face shewed that the story interested and amused him. "A Valkyrie, indeed! But how a feminist?" "You shall hear.
My Cousin was beautifully attired; he wore a most superb cravat, of a deep ruby colour, and an under-waistcoat of the brightest amber; but, in fact, he always attracts admiration; and I think, without vanity, that I looked extremely well in the new brown dress I took with me from home.
In addition to the orders of the King of Spain and the letters of the Marquis de Grimaldo, I was also furnished with those of the nuncio for the Prior of the Escurial, who is, at the same time, governor, in order that I might he shown the marvels of this superb and prodigious monastery, and that everything might be opened for me that I wished to visit; for I had been warned that, without the recommendation of the nuncio, neither that of the King and his minister, nor any official character, would have much served me.
Janet's increasing knowledge of its organization and processes only served to heighten her admiration for the confidence Ditmar had shown from the beginning. It was superb. And now, as the probability of the successful execution of the task tended more and more toward certainty, he sometimes gave vent to his boyish, exuberant spirits.
The episcopal office, aside from its spiritual aspects, had become a great worldly dignity as early as the fourth century. It gave its possessor rank, power, wealth, a superb social position, even in the eyes of worldly men. "Make me but bishop of Rome," said a great Pagan general, "and I too would become a Christian."
Susie smiled sadly as she looked at the wreck that was poor Aggie. "No, my dear; but I haven't seen quite enough of you. There isn't much left of you, you know." "Me?" She paused, and then broke out again, triumphant in her justification: "No matter if there's nothing left of me. They're alive." She raised her head. Worn out and broken down she might be, but she was the mother of superb children.
On this occasion the Gonzaga, with two hundred and sixty Mantuan gentlemen, mounted on superb horses, contested the prizes with the Marquis of Ferrara, at the head of two hundred Ferrarese, equally mounted, and attended by their squires and pages, magnificently dressed. There were sixty thousand spectators of the encounter.
It would be a pity to have it turned out into the cold: her own had long been used to chill and to hunger. "Susie, won't you go with us sleigh-riding to-morrow evening?" Gertrude asked. "Mr. Falconer and I have planned a sleighing-party for to-morrow evening. They say the sleighing is perfectly superb." "Is that what you've been doing?"
She was dark of course, with a low broad forehead, about which clustered little short curls; her eyes were superb, at once laughing and melancholy; her features suggested rather pride than softness; but her smile was enchanting, open, sunny, like a burst of light from behind a cloud. Nothing could be more real than this vision.
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