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Franklin, "suppose I put you up to my point of view, before we go any further. I see three very serious questions involved in the Colonel's birthday-gift to my cousin Rachel. Follow me carefully, Betteredge; and count me off on your fingers, if it will help you," says Mr.
'Since it is so, said the Dictator, not without a gasp in his throat as he said it, 'come with me, Helena. 'Oh, thank God, and thank you! the girl cried. 'See here this is your birthday, and I had no birthday-gift ready to give you. Ah, I have been thinking so much about you about you, you yourself that I forgot your birthday.
"Is that Mr. Laudersdale's age?" "How did you know Mr. Laudersdale Was my father?" "By an arithmetical process. That is his age?" "Yes; and yours?" "Not exactly. I was thirty-seven last August." "And will be thirty-eight next?" "That is the logical deduction." "I shall give you a birthday-gift when you are just twice my age." "By what courier will you make it reach me?" "Oh, I forgot. But Mr.
And when at last the bow grated on the sands of the Sorrento landing-place, Katy drew a long, regretful breath, and declared that this was her best birthday-gift of all, better than Amy's flowers, or the pretty tortoise-shell locket that Mrs.
But now I remember; and here is a birthday-gift for you the best I can give! And she seized his hand and kissed it fervently. 'Helena, the Dictator said, with an emotion that he tried in vain to repress, 'let me thank you for your birthday-gift. And he lifted her head towards him and kissed her lips.
Left alone, after the transaction, with the knowledge that his visitor designed the object bought of him as a birthday-gift to her father for Maggie confessed freely to having chattered to him almost as to a friend the vendor of the golden bowl had acted on a scruple rare enough in vendors of any class, and almost unprecedented in the thrifty children of Israel.
Echo had taken the souvenirs of the hunt and trail which Jack had collected, and, with a woman's touch of refinement, had used them for decorative effects. She had in truth made the room her very own. The grace and charm of her personality were stamped upon the environment. The men of the ranch fairly worshiped Echo. Sending to Kansas City, they purchased a piano for her as a birthday-gift.
If it had been possible to overlook such an event as the loss of a jewel worth twenty thousand pounds, I believe with my lady's opinion of her late brother, and her distrust of his birthday-gift it would have been privately a relief to her to let the thieves get off with the Moonstone scot free. I went out with Mr.
Audley, as, on quitting the churchyard, Felix exclaiming, 'Papa, may I just get it changed and ask about the van? darted across the street, with Clement, into a large grocer's shop nearly opposite, where a brisk evening traffic was going on in the long daylight of hot July; and he could not but tell of the birthday-gift, and how it was to be spent.
He took it and, with a look asking if he might, opened it. The major had known for some time that Mr. Raymount wanted to sell the house, and believed, from the way Hester spent herself in London, he could not rejoice her better than by purchasing it for her; so, just as it was, with everything as it stood in it, he made it his birthday-gift to her.
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