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She was talking at length, as one who in the past had been well accustomed to giving monologues and to holding drawing-rooms in subjection while she chattered, and to making drawing-rooms feel glad that they had consented to subjection. She was saying: "You've no idea what the valley of the Clyde is now. You can't have.
And isn't it the most exciting play you've ever read? Ned Carrington saw it in Paris, and declares it frightened him into being good for a whole week!" "Oh, Elsie," exclaimed Honora, apologetically, "I haven't read a word of it." Mrs. Shorter glanced at the pile of favours. "How was the dance?" she asked. "I was too tired to go. Hugh Chiltern offered to take me." "I saw Mr. Chiltern there.
And, if that last dogma of his be not Heaven's truth, then my outlook on life is all wrong, and this book's a failure! As Radley placed his muscular frame in the deck-chair, Chappy greeted him with these regrettable remarks: "Hallo, Radley, aren't you dead yet? How the devil are you? My word, how you've grown!" The match started, Doe and our captain opening the Kensingtowe innings.
You've been expressing something that there's not a man or woman that hasn't felt. I feel it when I realize that I may lose Terry; so does Braithwaite. Lord Dawn felt it when he couldn't drag his wife down to him and couldn't climb up to her. And his wife must have felt it too, when she sat always by herself.
"Why, Dollie, you'd feel lost if you went to school," he had said, "'cause you've always played in your yard." He had not meant it unkindly, but he had offended little Dollie. "I WOULDN'T feel lost outside of our garden any more than you would, Harry Grafton, so now!" she had cried. "Don't you mind, Dollie," the boy had answered, but Dollie DID mind very much.
"You've turned him against me!" cried the girl despairingly. "You mean you have turned him against you," retorted her aunt. "Anyhow, you can't wheedle him this time. He's as bent as I am. And you must promise us that you won't see Sam again." A pause. Then Susan said, "I can't." "Then we'll send you away to your Uncle Zeke's. It's quiet out there and you'll have a chance to think things over.
"But I don't believe it. It's only bluster and brag, of which I think our fellows ought to be ashamed. Why, you've more than once seen the French soldiers drive our men back." "Well, yes," said Punch grudgingly. "But that's when there have been more of them." "Not always, Punch." "Why is it, then?" "Oh, when they have had better positions and our officers have been outflanked."
I couldn't bear to leave you, it'll be a whole week before we get another day. Do you suppose I'd I'd do anything to insult you, Janet?" With her fingers still tightened over the door-catch she turned and looked at him. "I don't know," she said slowly. "Sometimes I think you would. Why shouldn't you? Why should you marry me? Why shouldn't you try to do with me what you've done with other women?
"But how could you go on with such a correspondence? It's incredible!" Mr. Grew looked at his son thoughtfully. "I suppose it is, to you. You've only had to put out your hand and get the things I was starving for music, and good talk, and ideas. Those letters gave me all that. You've read them, and you know that Dolbrowski was not only a great musician but a great man.
"Do come down, Madeleine. Before you've gone round twice, you'll be able to throw off all those mufflings."
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