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The occupants of the room, in undress uniform, turned upon her at first in hostile surprise, but, as she threw her veil farther back in alarm, the elder of the two said: "Pray, madam, what is it; are you ill?" "No; may I sit down, please? Thank you. I am come to, to " What should she say? How expose the doubt of her father?
Without saying a word she began to undress, and got into bed. She was submissive and nothing more, and did not give me so much as a kiss. At the end of a quarter of an hour I was disgusted with her and got up, and giving her a bank note for twenty guineas I told her to put on her clothes and go back to her room. "You must all leave my house to-morrow," I said, "for I am ill pleased with you.
When they land, Eugene takes Cecil in his arms and carries her up the terrace with a strange emotion of tenderness. He is fond of teasing her and hearing saucy replies, but ordinarily he does not care much for children. Violet helps to undress the sleepy girl and gives her more than the dozen kisses. Floyd has said in his letter, "I shall keep yours on interest until I come."
There were, Bland said, three bullets buried in the mattress, so it was fortunate that we had not carried Clithering up earlier in the day. "Let's get the waiter," said Bland, "if he hasn't gone away, and tell him to undress this fool!" "It's hardly necessary to undress him, is it?" "Better to," said Bland, "and take away his clothes.
The figure was that of a French officer, in undress, and was six feet high. Across the nose and eyebrow there was a deep scar, which made the repulsive face grimmer. The officer elevated his chin and his eyebrows, with a scoffing chuckle, and said: "I have shot a stork, with a rifle bullet, when he thought himself safe in the clouds, for mere sport!" Ha! ha! ha! Adieu, Monsieur!"
One winter morning, when he began to undress himself on the beach, the crowd gathered around him as though attracted by a phenomenon. Even the fish of the Gulf had to him an insufferable slimy taste. "I'm going back home," he would finally say to the notary and his wife. "I can't understand how in the world you are able to live here!"
They left the room like threatened children, and on the landing they took each other's hands. "Is she mad?" Miriam whispered. "Are we all mad? What's happening to us all?" "I think she was just dazed. Come to bed. I'll help you to undress." "Once before you did. That night it rained " "Yes. Don't talk." "But if she goes out of her mind, will it be my fault?
Instead of going to Eda's she walked alone, seeking the quieter streets that her thoughts might flow undisturbed. At ten o'clock, when she returned, the light was out in the diningroom, her sister had not come in, and she began slowly to undress, pausing every now and then to sit on the bed and dream; once she surprised herself gazing into the glass with a rapt expression that was almost a smile.
The men of war with their cartridge moustachios saluted us by firing their muskets, the wadding of which struck me and my palanquin, for which I did not thank them, as a bit of the wadding burnt my cheek. On reaching the Castle at Cape Coast I was so wearied that I was almost too lazy to undress.
Consulted on the subject, Tiberius replied that the law must be observed. Originally instituted in prevention of offences against the public good, it was found to change into a crime, a word, a gesture or a look. It was a crime to undress before a statue of Augustus, to mention his name in the latrinae, to carry a coin with his image into a lupanar. The punishment was death.
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