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If you visit the Dominica in the evening, you find the same crowd, only with a sprinkling of women, oftenest of your own country, in audacious bonnets, and with voices and laughter which bring the black eyes upon them for a time. If it be Sunday evening, you will see here and there groups of ladies in full ball-dress, fresh from the Paseo, the volante waiting for them outside.

In vain the fleet-footed and audacious Spinola moved stealthily or fiercely to and fro, from one point to another, seeking an opening through which to creep, or a weak spot where he might dash himself against the chain. The whole line was securely guarded. The swollen river, the redoubts, and the musketeers of Maurice, protected the heart of the republic from the impending danger.

"No one at all, just; a laggard by the roadside a lass with no home, no kin, and that for a fortune," and she flung out her two empty hands, palm uppermost, and laughed. "And you are audacious enough to think you are richer than I." This time there was no sneer in his voice, only an amused toleration. "I am," said Patsy, simply. "You have youth and health," he conceded, grudgingly.

They have this proposal under consideration, though they are naturally rather reluctant to give up the plaudits of the public, even for so honorable a position." "Professor Riccabocca," said Philip, considerably annoyed by this audacious invention, "you ought to have consulted me before publishing such a falsehood as this." "Falsehood, Mr. de Gray? Really I'm shocked!

If it is the gods who wish to punish my son for his audacious wishes, their anger is swift Karadeucq, come near me." "What! Madalen there you are weeping and embracing the boy, as if really misfortune threatened him. Come, be more sensible!" "Do you not hear the dogs barking louder and louder? And there is Erer now running to the door. There is something wrong going on outside "

It was not a time for talk of any kind, either when they were slowly and not quite smoothly dropping through the lugubrious upper part of the structure, where it was darkened by a rough weatherboarding, or lower down, where the unobstructed light showed the grim tearful face of the cliff, bedrabbled with oozy springs, and the audacious slightness of the elevator.

He is now a tall man, and again a short man; sometimes young and audacious, sometimes old and leering. He only once took a feminine guise: that blessed form was irksome to him. He prefers the freedom of masculinity and ineffables.

Now of course I didn't "discover" her or any rubbish of that kind; the audience were already mad about her, but I did know her for what she was, even in that brilliant "all-star" company and before she had played in the classics and won enduring fame. The audacious, superb, quaint, Irish creature! Never have I seen such splendid high comedy!

The shades of her beautiful maids of honour, "sweet Molly Lepell," Mary Bellenden, and Sophy Howe, still haunt the Broad Walk. He added an audacious description of the manner in which the news was received at Court, and of the behaviour of the principal persons in the circle.

The progress of the inquiry continually opened new subjects of criminal prosecution; the audacious informer, whose falsehood was detected, retired with impunity; but the wretched victim, who discovered his real or pretended accomplices, were seldom permitted to receive the price of his infamy.