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Now, now, keep calm! don't mind me. It's only a figure of speech! That's all very nice; it suits some people. It wouldn't suit me." "What would suit you?" queried Errington. "You find everything more or less of a bore." "Ah, my good little boy!" broke in Duprez. "Paris is the place for you. You should live in Paris. Of that you would never fatigue yourself."
And, as for him, I should have been in love with him myself, if I had not had my guests to attend to. Ah, society is as absorbing as a husband!" Upon the boat, Paul Jacquemin did not leave the side of the matchmaker. He followed her everywhere.
This remarkable figure was standing before the picture like one enraptured: he raised himself on tiptoe; he stooped down till he became quite small; then he jumped up with both feet at once, heaved deep sighs, groaned, nipped his eyes so close together that the tears began to trickle down his cheeks, opened them wide again, fixed his gaze immovably upon the charming Magdalene, sighed again, lisped in a thin, querulous, mutilated voice, "Ah! carissima benedettissima!
If, on the other hand, a neighbor of the last victim hears of it in time, and later Pesita comes to him, he assures Pesita that he is for Carranza, whereupon Pesita cries Viva Villa! and falls upon the poor unfortunate, who is lucky if he escapes with his life. But Americans! Ah, Pesita asks them no questions. He hates them all, and kills them all, whenever he can lay his hands upon them.
Cally!" whispered Mattie Allen, turning simultaneously, and for the first time, from Mr. Canning. And Mr. Canning said: "Ah! what's happened?..." In almost the same moment all three had become aware that the rattle of talk and laughter outside the little room had entirely died away.
You do not know how frightened I grow when the bullets whistle around me." She laid her fingers on my lips with the prettiest motion in the world. "Hush," she said. "I will not listen to such blasphemy." "At least," I protested, "I am not so brave as you, no, nor as your mother, Dorothy. I had no thought that she was such a gallant woman." "Ah, you do not know my mother!" she cried.
"Ah, you brute! you have given me a lot of trouble for the last dozen years, and will, I suppose, to my dying day." "Tell us the yarn, Quatermain," said Good. "You have often promised to tell me, and you never have." "You had better not ask me to," he answered, "for it is a longish one." "All right," I said, "the evening is young, and there is some more port."
Ah," said he, plaintively, "how mony days hae I sat through storm, and frost, and sleet! how mony nights hae I watched in the still moonlight, amang the reedy creeks! how mony times I hae weized a slug through a bird a'maist amang the clouds! but I hae had a' my labor in vain, in vain."
"Failure of the rear movement, cease firing ordered from the front," said the major quietly. "Now we shall have time to repair damages." "Ah, major," cried the captain, "if I could only be as cool as you!" and he wrung his hand. "My dear Strong, you are a regular lion," replied the major. "You were getting hard pressed there." "And you were as calm as if nothing were the matter."
"Never mind, Wilfrid. We all have our feelings." "Precisely. Well, no doubt Jacob will make peace. As for Ah, here comes Montresor!" A visible tremor passed through Lady Henry. The door was thrown open, and the footman announced the Minister for War. "Her grace, sir, is not yet returned."
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