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The ushers opened the doors; at sight of the magistrates in scarlet robes, motionless upon their seats, the officer was for a moment abashed; he cast his eye from bench to bench, his voice faltered when he read the order signed by the king to arrest "MM. d'Espremesnil and De Montsabert, in the grand chamber or elsewhere." "The court will proceed to deliberate thereon, sir," replied the president.
Tsi-puff took up position behind him. Dexterous ushers sidled sideways towards me, keeping a full face to the Presence. I seated myself Turkish fashion, and Phi-oo and Tsi-puff also knelt down above me. There came a pause. The eyes of the nearer court went from me to the Grand Lunar and came back to me, and a hissing and piping of expectation passed across the hidden multitudes below and ceased.
From then on, at twelve minute intervals, it is your duty to say, "Fellows, we have got to go to a tea right away. Come on let's go." Each time you will be handed another drink, which you may take with either your right or left hand. After an hour the telephone will ring. It will be the groom. He will say, "Everybody is waiting for you and the ushers," to which you reply, "We are just leaving."
I clapped my hands, shouted "Bravo! lay on, Johnny go it you have done it now you may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb;" but the ushers began to muster round, the boy hung aloof, and Pagoda, uncertain which side the neutrals would take, laid down his arms, and surrendered at discretion.
He comes to the carriage himself, gives me his arm to go upstairs, is so much obliged to us for honoring his house, ushers you in to dinner, at least on the first day, and seats you, etc., etc. Do not imagine us in fresh, new-looking rooms as we should be in New York or Philadelphia. No, in London even new things look old, but almost everything IS old.
The First Consul, as I believe I have already said, slept in the same bed with his wife; and they lived together, sometimes at the Tuileries, sometimes at Malmaison. As yet there were neither grand marshal, nor chamberlains, nor prefects of the palace, nor ladies of honor, nor lady ushers, nor ladies of the wardrobe, nor pages.
It was built of cheery iron-spot brick in an improved Gothic style, and the main auditorium had indirect lighting from electric globes in lavish alabaster bowls. On a December morning when the Babbitts went to church, Dr. John Jennison Drew was unusually eloquent. The crowd was immense. Ten brisk young ushers, in morning coats with white roses, were bringing folding chairs up from the basement.
It is the securing to those who believe its message the best eternal conditions. It is not a matter of 'elevation' it is a matter of translation. Not into a bettered life, but into a new life with an eternal outlook into a new realm altogether, and that divine the Gospel we carry ushers its believers! How would the poor, irrelevant argument I have quoted have affected Paul?
I can rig up an altar, and we'll have the bride in a white, trailing gown; the groom, best man, and ushers in dress suits to advertise our gents' department, the bridesmaids and relatives in different colored evening dresses, and in this way we can announce our big clearing sale of summer goods in the ready-to-wear department. It'll make a swell window and draw crowds.
'Call me the ushers of the hall, my lord, he said. In a moment the two officers were before him. 'Search and see, and bring me word who is absent, said the marquis. The two gentlemen went down into the crowd, one from each side of the dais. A minute or two passed, and then Mr. Cook came back and said, 'My lord, I cannot find Caspar Kaltoff. 'Caspar! Art not there, Caspar? cried lord Herbert.
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