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This is what enables man to persist in a certain pleasing delusion regarding woman's natural attitude. When she occasionally pleases herself by a simulation of subjection he immediately thrills with pride, crying, "Aha! I have her mastered!" Of course he finds out his mistake later. It pleased Esther, though not cold, to wrap herself in the shawl and it pleased Callandar to see her do it.
Full of excitement, and her eyes filled with a penetrating, enquiring gaze upon Louis, she answered: "Louis, I should be false to the lessons I have endeavored to teach you in these last fleeting hours of my ill-spent life, were I not to rejoice in any destiny that would wrap up your future career in the glory of God; but I fear the enthusiasm of your young heart will misguide you.
"You see," continued Miss Cursiter, as if defending herself from some accusation conveyed by the frown, "as it is we have kept her on a long while for her sister's sake." "Of course we must put it to her prettily, wrap it up in tissue paper." "You are not giving me your opinion." "It seems to me I've said a great deal more than I've any right to say." "Oh you. We know all about that.
Through all this talk between the young lady of the store and the father who was buying something for his son's Christmas, to help busy Santa Claus, the White Rocking Horse never said a word. But he was doing as much thinking as a wooden horse ever did; I am sure of that. "I'll get some big sheets of paper and wrap the horse up for you," said the young lady clerk to the man.
"Make yourself warm and snug," said Brown. "That's what the buffalo robes are for. I must steer, so I have to keep in the open. If I were you I'd wrap up in those robes and go to sleep. I'll wake you when we're there." "All right," answered Staples. "That's not a bad idea." "General George Washington!" said young Brown to himself. "This is too soft a snap altogether.
And she rushed into the next room, and half a minute later came back with her hat and wrap. "Allan," she said, "tell them to call me a cab!" He tried to protest again; but she would not hear him. "You can ride with me," she said. "You can talk then. Call me a cab! Please save me that trouble."
He occupied the nearest place to the fire, in consideration for the scarecrow-like raggedness of his garments, which now began to weigh upon Judy's mind amid the comfort of her magnificent wrap. "Froze stiff you'll be in thim ould tatters, man alive," she said despondently.
"My, you look good in dem clothes," she said patting his sleeve. "I can remember some wars, too; when we got back dem provinces what Napoleon took away from us, Alsace and Lorraine. Dem boys is passed de word to come and put tar on me some night, and I am skeered to go in my bet. I chust wrap in a quilt and sit in my old chair." "Don't pay any attention to them.
"Let you take a handful of rowan berries and lay them on the stomach or wherever the pain might be, and if you wrap them in a yellow cloth it will be better; but they'll work well enough without that, only not so quick." Driven off by the constable Mrs. Doolan went back to Flanagan's shop. She was quite calm and did not any longer appear to be the worse for the porter she had drunk.
If possible, she would prevent that final catastrophe which her intuition told her was imminent which she knew must overtake either one or all three of them should Don Felipe and the Captain meet again that night in Chiquita's presence. There was not a moment to lose, and seizing a light wrap which lay on a chair beside her, she flung it about her shoulders and hurriedly left the room.
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