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Best of all, it's near the door, and every customer will give me a sustaining breath." "Millie is standing it capitally for a beginner," Belle remarked, with the air of a veteran, as Mildred eagerly drank her cup of tea and asked for more. "I was so tired the first night that it seemed as if I could scarcely swallow a mouthful."
"To your health, Reine!" said he, with forced gayety, "next time we clink glasses together, I shall be an experienced soldier you'll see!" But, when he put the glass to his lips, several big tears fell in, and he had to swallow them with his wine. "Well!" he sighed, turning away while he passed the back of his hand across his eyes, "it must be time to go." She accompanied him to the threshold.
It was a district of factories, and the only restaurants were the Great Western Cooking Depots, where one could get a steak and bread and cheese for fivepence, but the rooms and tables and accessories were, to say the least, unappetising. Hunger had to be satisfied, however, and I had to swallow my pride and my five-pennyworth.
At luncheon Diana cautioned Betty against swallowing a fish-bone. "You might die, darling, if you did." "Then I shall swallow every single bone I can," announced Betty. "But, darling," said Diana, "why do you say that? You don't want to die. You are quite happy, aren't you?" "Yes, I'm very happy, but I want to die, all the same."
"That's right," agreed the younger man. "We'll play this out alone. You cut yore stick an' drift. If we git through I'll sure come back an' thank you proper some day." Recently Lee had read "The Three Musketeers." From it there flashed to her a memory of the picture on the cover. "I know what we'll do," she said, coughing from a swallow of smoke.
Now, lady, I cannot doubt that as the first part of the prophecy has come true, so the last part would come true also did I tempt the spirits of my ancestors by disregarding it, and, therefore, White Swallow, though all I have is yours, yet you cannot fly home with us." Now Suzanne pleaded with him long and earnestly, as did Sihamba, but without avail, for he could not be moved.
"Sir Thomas and Lady Kicklebury, 2. No saying no: we MUST ask them, Charles. They are rich people, and any room in their house in Brobdingnag Gardens would swallow up OUR humble cot. But to people in OUR position in SOCIETY they will be glad enough to come. The city people are glad to mix with the old families." "Very good," says Fitz, with a sad face of assent and Mrs.
A poet might have wished some leafage about the shrine, a little moss in the crevices of the freestone, a break in the even courses of the brick; he would have longed for a swallow to build her nest in the red coping that roofed the arches of the windows.
Matlack was seated on his log, and he smoked, while Mrs. Perkenpine sat on the ground, her head thrown back and her arms hugging her knees. "Phil," said she, "that there moon looks to me like an oyster with a candle behind it, and as smooth and slippery as if I could jest swallow it down.
Her narrow face was as swift as light in its volatile changes, and her little chin dipped occasionally into the fluff of her ruffled bodice like a swallow into the water. Every movement she made was strange and sweet to see. She cried out in admiration of everything, and clapped her slender hands like a wondering child.
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