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The priest now arrived, and all was made ready, Gulielmo looking on with a heated brain, and a feverish sickness gnawing at his heart. He was only able to see a single lovely face, in which a sudden sadness seemed to dim its former smiling grace. "Why wait we?" bluffly exclaimed Jean Maret. "The priest awaits, the bride is ready. Gulielmo Massani, come forward; Rosa has chosen you as bridesman."
Rimrock read it in the office where Mary sat at work and threw it carelessly down on her desk. "Well, it's come to a showdown," he said as she glanced at it. "The question is who's running this mine?" "And the answer?" she enquired in that impersonal way she had; and Rimrock started as he sensed the subtle challenge. "Why we are!" he said bluffly. "You and me, of course.
"Rascal!" he exclaimed, angrily. But the man he called monseigneur restrained him. "Calm, Peyrolles, calm! For the very good reason, inquisitive gentleman, that the lady in question would know my voice or the voice of my friend here, and as I do not wish her to think that I have anything to do with to-night's work " Lagardere interrupted, bluffly: "Say no more. I'm your man."
"The boy is certainly very delicate at present; but that may be the fault of his manner of living; under better regimen he may outgrow his fragility," said Mr. Middleton. "Yes, yes, so he may; but now as I look at him, I wonder where the deuce the little fellow got his pluck from! Where did you, my little man, eh?" inquired the old sailor, turning bluffly to Ishmael.
One day a frank, hearty old woman, who had known Roland as a boy, seeing him lean on my arm, stopped us, as she said bluffly, to take a "geud luik" at me. Fortunately I was stalwart enough to pass muster, even in the eyes of a Cumberland matron; and after a compliment at which Roland seemed much pleased, she said to me, but pointing to the Captain,
'The Derby Winner is my property, said Sir Harry, bluffly, 'and it sha'n't be shut up for a dozen Mrs Panseys. 'Think of a dozen Mrs Panseys, murmured Lucy, pensively. 'Think of Bedlam and Pandemonium, my dear! Thank goodness Mrs Pansey is the sole specimen of her kind. Nature broke the mould when that clacking nuisance was turned out. She 'Harry! you really must not speak so loud.
Well, Doctor Grimshawe easily got at what seemed to be all of the facts of Colcord's life; how that he was a New-Englander, the descendant of an ancient race of settlers, the last of them; for, once pretty numerous in their quarter of the country, they seemed to have been dying out, exhaling from the earth, and passing to some other region. "No wonder," said the Doctor bluffly.
And he knew how to arrange a rather crude stage-setting; the room, with all air and sound excluded, seemed tense and breathless; the one dim candle on the table lent a certain solemnity to the scene. "Look here, Mr. Bayne," he began bluffly, "last time you spoke to me you told me to Well, we'll let bygones by bygones; I guess you remember what you said.
I say, I wish you were English." "Why?" said Denis wonderingly. "Oh, I don't know," said the other rather confusedly, "only I seem to like a fellow who can act like that." "Then because I am French you feel as if you couldn't like me?" "That I don't!" replied the lad bluffly. "Because I do like you, and I'm glad you've come. I say, can you shake hands?" "Like the English?" said Denis. "Of course."
When the ragged Suwarrow went about among his men and talked bluffly with the raw recruits, there was no question of equality in any squad, for the tattered, begrimed man had approved himself the wisest, most audacious, and most king-like of all the host; and he could afford to despise appearances.
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