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Without being able to say he was a hypocrite, he struck me as being one. He was not bad-looking, and about thirty-five; he had a band of adoring girls and women about him. I was desolate and disliked him and went away. But I returned. I went up to him and told him brutally that I disbelieved in him and in everything he believed in, explaining that I wanted nothing on false pretences.
Like this, we shan't get away before evening. Look, look there.... Why, that must be Napoleon's own. See what horses! And the monograms with a crown! It's like a portable house.... That fellow's dropped his sack and doesn't see it. Fighting again... A woman with a baby, and not bad-looking either! Yes, I dare say, that's the way they'll let you pass... Just look, there's no end to it.
"Sure, I know," agreed the man with the plaid cap. "She's not bad-looking, though." He paused. "Wonder what he's thinking about his money, I guess, or maybe he's got remorse about that fellow Shuttleworth." "Probably...." But the man in the plaid cap was quite wrong.
He was not bad-looking, was clever and could be very agreeable when he chose. Marya Dmitrievna Pesto that was her maiden name had lost her parents in childhood. She spent some years in a boarding-school in Moscow, and after leaving school, lived on the family estate of Pokrovskoe, about forty miles from O , with her aunt and her elder brother.
And he dressed all up. He looked splendid." "I dare say. He isn't bad-looking in his everyday gear. And you are having a good time?" "A most beautiful time, Uncle Leverett. I went to church Christmas morning. And a lady asked us both to a party yes, it was a party.
"He isn't bad-looking," said March, handing his glass to General Triscoe. "I've not seen many kings in exile; a matter of a few Carlist princes and ex-sovereign dukes, and the good Henry V. of France, once, when I was staying a month in Venice; but I don't think they any of them looked the part better. I suppose he has his dream of recurring power like the rest."
Long and lank as he is, he is not bad-looking even now. "When he appeared as an orator he pleased his hearers. This turned his head, and a spendthrift's blood runs in his veins. To bring his fair young bride to a stately mansion, he undertook the bad cause of the thievish tax-collector Pyrrhus, and cleared him." "He bought a dozen false witnesses." "There were sixteen.
I was rather sorry the lot fell upon me; for I was always bashful, and never thought much of myself but once. I think my bashfulness was mostly owing to my knowing myself to be not very good-looking. I believe that I am not considered a bad-looking old man; indeed, people who remember me at twenty-five say that I have grown handsome every year since.
He has an honest eye and is not at all bad-looking, and tells a capital story. But Kit fell upon him about something, and I had to cover him. It's a wonder that he ever came near the place again." "He has been at the Lodge eight times since then," explained Kate, with much composure; "but he will on no account be left alone with the head of the household.
"Well, so glad to have seen you, Miss Phaeton," said he, "but I must run on. Goodbye." "Goodbye, Mr. Gay," said she. And, lifting his hat again, smiling again gayly, he was gone. For a moment or two I said nothing. Then I remarked: "So that's your friend Gay, is it? He's not a bad-looking fellow." "Yes, that's him," said she, and, as she spoke, she sank back in her seat for a moment.
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