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Hortense opened her eyes, saw Wenceslas, and her color came back. In a few minutes she had quite recovered. "So this was your secret?" said Lisbeth, smiling at Wenceslas, and affecting to guess the facts from her two cousins' confusion. "But how did you steal away my lover?" said she, leading Hortense into the garden. Hortense artlessly told the romance of her love.
Gibbs, still gazing in blank astonishment, caught a seraphic smile on the face of her brother as Miss Harris continued her ministrations, and in a pardonable fit of temper the overwrought woman gave him a box on the ear, which brought him round at once. "Where am I?" he inquired, artlessly. Mrs. Gibbs told him.
They begged hard, of course, to be taken with papa and mamma. 'I have had a charming letter from the bride, this morning, dated Cologne. You cannot think how artlessly and prettily she assures me of her happiness. Some people, as they say in Ireland, are born to good luck and I think Arthur Barville is one of them.
But at this juncture up came two rather rollicking older girls, one of whom was fair, with a red complexion. AS soon as their loud voices had driven the governess away, the smaller of the two, who had a pronounced squint, turned to Laura. "Hullo, you kid," she said, "what's YOUR name?" Laura artlessly replied. She was dumbfounded by the storm of merriment that followed.
The room had then become useless, and for some time was quite deserted, except by Fanny, when she visited her plants, or wanted one of the books, which she was still glad to keep there, from the deficiency of space and accommodation in her little chamber above: but gradually, as her value for the comforts of it increased, she had added to her possessions, and spent more of her time there; and having nothing to oppose her, had so naturally and so artlessly worked herself into it, that it was now generally admitted to be hers.
Her gratitude shewed itself more by the tone of her voice than by her words, and her confidence being already captivated she told me artlessly, but not without some dignity, her short history or rather her situation, and she concluded by these words: "I must in the course of the day find a less expensive lodging, for I only possess six francs."
The by-roads are pricked out with trees, which follow each other artlessly and divide the infantile littleness of orchards. This landscape holds us by the soul. Roundly one's gaze embraces all the panorama, which is delightful as the rainbow. From the Place, then, where one feels himself so abundantly at home, we enter the church.
She sat down for the first time, taking a chair opposite Diana. "You see," she said, artlessly, "I have no personal inclination for society, which is doubtless so large a part of your own amusement. It seems to me artificial and insipid." "Those who view from a distance the husk of a cocoanut, have little idea of the milk within," declared Diana, softly. "True," answered Beth.
My mother leaned forward and compelled him to meet direct her eyes that were friendly and clear and candid as a child's. "Mr. Flint," said she artlessly, ignoring his questions, "Mr. Flint, you've been with Armand and me quite a long time now, have you not?" "A couple of lifetimes," said he, wonderingly. "A couple of lifetimes," she mused, still holding his eyes, "is a fairly long time.
She prattled artlessly of theatre parties followed by a supper at one of the fashionable restaurants, and of new acquaintances whom she entertained, and through whom her social circle was enlarged, without divining that the sprightly narration was a thorn in the flesh of her hearer. Selma was capricious in her reception of these reports of progress.
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