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Well, then, I say it would be a burning shame for us to consent to touch one penny of what he offered to give, in the fullness of his heart, while he was laborin' under that delusion. And I move he be not asked for it. We've got quite as much as we need, without it. I put my motion." "That is, YOU don't put it," suggested Winch, correctingly.
"Drive on aboot yer faither an' John Rorrison," she said; "it's verra entertainin'." "Bairdieson," said Winsome, correctingly. Ralph, now reassured that he was interesting Winsome as well, went on more briskly. Winsome had slipped down beside her grandmother, and had laid her arm across her grandmother's knees till the full curve of her breast touched the spare outlines of the elder woman.
"I can see the good news in your face." "Not Sir Stephen Lord Highcliffe!" said another, correctingly. Maude slid her arm in Stafford's, and stood, her lovely face flushed, her eyes sparkling, as she looked round. "And no title has been more honourably gained," a voice said. "Or will be more nobly borne!" echoed another.
Inexpressibly dear as she was to him, he offered her his arm with the most reserved air, as he added, correctingly, "I will take you, at any rate, into the drive." Thus they walked on together. Grace vibrating between happiness and misgiving. It was only a few minutes' walk to where the drive ran, and they had hardly descended into it when they heard a voice behind them cry, "Take out that arm!"
"It wouldn't matter if he did," remarked Celia. She appeared to comprehend his nervousness and take pity on it, for she added, "It is my brother Michael, as good a soul as ever lived. He is quite used to my ways." The Rev. Mr. Ware drew a long comforting breath. "Oh, I see! He went with you to bring you home." "To blow the organ," said the girl in the dark, correctingly.
'I have not explained yet. Paula seated herself on a stone bench, and Charlotte went on: 'Miss Power thought of making a Greek court of this. But she will not tell you so herself, because it seems such dreadful anachronism. 'I said I would not tell any architect myself, interposed Paula correctingly. 'I did not then know that he would be Mr. Somerset. 'It is rather startling, said Somerset.
"Matthew Moon, mem," said Henery Fray, correctingly, from behind her chair, to which point he had edged himself. "Matthew Moon," murmured Bathsheba, turning her bright eyes to the book. "Ten and twopence halfpenny is the sum put down to you, I see?" "Yes, mis'ess," said Matthew, as the rustle of wind among dead leaves. "Here it is, and ten shillings.
'A serviceable dog, Agostino remarked correctingly. 'Keep true to the form of animal, Carlo. He has done good service in his time. 'You listen to the man? Carlo said, now thoroughly amazed. 'An indiscretion is possible to woman, my lad. She may have been indiscreet in some way I am compelled to admit the existence of possibilities. 'Of all men, you, Agostino!
"Oh! that will be nice," gushingly replied Mrs. O . "Where do you live?" "I live in the Rue de Courcelles," I answered. "Oh! Roue de Carrousel," she repeated. "What number?" "Rue de Courcelles," I replied, correctingly; "twenty-seven." Mrs. O 's next question was, "Oh! have you a flat?" "A flat!! No," I said, "we have a hotel. Every one knows our hotel in the Rue de Courcelles."
"All I meant was," said Dick, rather sorry that he had spoken correctingly to a guest, "that 'tis in the dance; and a man has hardly any right to hack and mangle what was ordained by the regular dance-maker, who, I daresay, got his living by making 'em, and thought of nothing else all his life." "I don't like casting off: then very well; I cast off for no dance-maker that ever lived."
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