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He then answers properly to Miss Gordon Cumming's flash-light picture of him as a person who is dressed in "a turban and a pocket handkerchief." All day long one has this monotony of dust-colored dead levels and scattering bunches of trees and mud villages. You soon realize that India is not beautiful; still there is an enchantment about it that is beguiling, and which does not pall.
If you have another engagement, pray do not let it interfere with the pleasure I am seeking. Nothing could be more exacting, my dear Prince. She signs herself 'B. Guile, and I am sure she is magnificently beguiling, if you will pardon the play on words." "You wouldn't adopt that tone of suspicion if you knew Miss Guile," said Robin stiffly.
The wife of the proprietor desiring to share a knighthood with her husband, the proprietor, anxious to please but unwilling to pay, incontinently sacked the tame editor who was beguiling an amiable dotage with the County Times and looked about for a wild editor, whom unquestionably he found in Mr. Pike.
He defied the earth-magic, defied those sylvan deities who as he divined, sought to enthral him. For the moment he confounded Honoria's influence with theirs. It was something of a battle, and not the first one he had fought to-day. For the great, white road which leads onward to Perfection looked dusty and arid enough no reposeful shadow, no mystery, no beguiling green glooms over it!
The first event of the day was always Mary's bathe, which gradually became a spectacle for the whole beach, so ingenious were the blandishments of the father who wooed her into the warm sandy shallows, and so beguiling the glee and pluck of the two-year-old English bébé.
I will do so now, in the hope of beguiling you out of your present morbid state of feeling, while it may answer the purpose of teaching you a good, moral lesson, which I trust you will not easily forget. "Man's happiness depends in a great measure on the sympathy of others.
Wix's own choosing, where there was nothing of that sort; no haloes on heads, but only, during long sermons, beguiling backs of bonnets, and where, as her governess always afterwards observed, he gave the most earnest attention.
I read it in your countenance, I heard it in your voice," said Cesarini, seating himself. "I have been idly beguiling a very idle leisure, it is true," said Maltravers. "But you do not write for yourself alone you have an eye to the great tribunals Time and the Public." "Not so, I assure you honestly," said Maltravers, smiling.
Fifteen minutes later the two gentlemen were seated in the Restaurant des Platanes, an agreeable spot whose terraces sloped down toward the sea, and there before a large Russian salad and a bottle of good wine they renewed their acquaintance. You cannot imagine anything more beguiling than this Montenegrin prince.
As usual with him, there was about this venerable person a beguiling air of innocence and confidence in his fellow man, a simple attitude of trustfulness not entirely borne out by his method of handling a racing stable. Certain dishonest horsemen and bookmakers were beginning to suspect that Old Man Curry was smarter than he looked.
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