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This, in turn, was quelled, and a curious quiet reigned again as the deputies from the nobles made their appearance in their rich dress, with cloak gold-faced, white silk stockings, and beplumed hat. "You would have to walk with the tiers were you of the procession, Monsieur Calvert," said Madame de St.
He had grown skilled in repeating them. Under the even murmur of his voice, her face grew tranquil; she sank little by little into a state of well-being; her one fear was that he would cease speaking. On the writing-table, a gold-faced clock ticked solemnly: its minutes went by unheeded.
Knowest thou aught of these things, most noble Hellitysplit?" and the king drew from the upper pocket of his gold-faced vest a paper of John Anderson's solace and proceeded to take a chaw. "Treason stalks monster-like throughout unhappy France, my liege!" said the noble Hellitysplit. "The ranks of the P.Q.R.'s are daily swelling, and the G.R.J.A.'s are constantly on the increase.
All I want is to listen to you," he stammered. She drew out a little gold-faced watch on an enamelled chain. "Oh, don't calculate," he broke out; "give me the day! I want to get you away from that man. At what time was he coming?" Her colour rose again. "At eleven." "Then you must come at once." "You needn't be afraid if I don't come." "Nor you either if you do.
A gold-faced clock stood in the birth chamber, the gift of a German King, and from the door of the chamber eunuchs were stationed. Exactly as the clock proclaimed midnight, mouth and mouth carried the cry to a man on the roof 'A Prince is born! A Prince is born!
At the edge of the awning, the caller, a gigantic fellow in gold-faced uniform, shouted the numbers in a roaring, sing-song that dominated every other sound.
Said, in the darkness, another enchanter: "But far from their choiring the high King sat, in a gold-faced vest and a gold-laced hat, counting heaped monies, and dreaming of more francs and sequins and Louis d'or. Through the slumberous pare, under arching trees, to her labors went singing the maid Dénise "
The room was not as she had seen it on the two occasions when it had been the battle ground where she and Betty fought for a man. Plaid travelling-rugs covered the divans. A gold-faced watch in a leather bracelet ticked on the table among scattered stationery. A lady in a short sensible dress rose from the table, and the room was scented with the smell of Hungarian cigarettes. "I beg your pardon.
'Is it not enough! asked the Maharajah irritably, while the little prince's face fell. 'Your Highness, stammered Tooni, 'it is great riches may roses be to your mouth! But I have a desire rather than the money 'What is your desire? cried the little prince. 'Say it. In a breath my father will allow it. I want the gold-faced one to come and play.
Around the edges of the hall excited girls, and chaperons themselves no less agitated, were standing up on chairs and benches, splitting their gloves and breaking their fans in their enthusiasm; while every male dancer on the floor ensigns in their gold-faced uniforms and "rovers" in starched and immaculate shirt-bosoms cheered and cheered and struggled with one another to shake hands with a man whom two of their number old Yale grads, with memories of athletic triumphs yet in their minds carried into that ball-room, borne high upon their shoulders.
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