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"Moreheads sermons are I hear much praised, but I never read sermons of any kind; but I read novelettes and my Bible, and I never forget it, or my prayers." Brava, Marjorie! She seems now, when still about six, to have broken out into song: "The casawary is an curious bird, and so is the gigantic crane, and the pelican of the wilderness, whose mouth holds a bucket of fish and water.
She examined him with a narrow, sidelong glance. "No," she said at last, "you were not mistaken. I did tell you so." "Well?" Kingozi turned to her. "I was very angry, so I lied," she replied naively. "Women always lie when they get very angry." "Or tell the truth uncomfortably," grinned Kingozi. "Brava!" she applauded. "He does know something about women!"
'Brava, brava! you're a heroine, Radie; and why the devil, he continued, in a changed tone, 'do you apply those insolent terms to what I purpose doing? 'I wish I could find words strong enough to express my horror of your plot a plot every way disgusting.
She stood in the little dell which the stream had made, Walter in her arms her figure thrown back, so as to poise the child's weight. Her right hand kept firm hold of Guy, who was paddling barefoot in the stream: Edwin, the only one of the boys who never gave any trouble, was soberly digging away, beside little Muriel. The lady clapped her hands. "Brava! bravissima! a charming family picture, Mrs.
I wish he were here himself! The jealous old sheep should see that I do not need to bungle another person's composition in order to show off my own." "Brava!
He had forsaken improvization now, and was interpreting magnificently; occasionally the boy by the piano threw up his hands ecstatically, muttering incoherently to himself; occasionally the young Italian broke silence by a sharp, irresistible 'Brava'; but for the most part respectful silence spoke the intensity of the spell.
Only a small supply of water being taken on board, the fleet sailed from Brava on the 2nd of February, steering a course for the Straits of Magellan. Passing the equator on the 17th, they sailed for sixty-three days out of sight of land.
After having wintered at Mozambique, Da Cunha landed three ambassadors at Melinda, who were to reach Abyssinia by travelling overland, then he anchored at Brava, which Coutinho, one of his lieutenants had been unable to subjugate. The Portuguese now laid siege to this town, which resisted bravely but which yielded in the end, thanks to the courage of the enemy and the perfection of their arms.
"Brava, brava!" said Meadows, when the story ceased, although it had been intended to upset one of his own most brilliant generalisations; and a sound of clapping hands went round the circle. Lady Dunstable, a little flushed and panting, smiled and was silent. Meadows, meanwhile, was thinking "How often has she told that tale? She has it by heart.
She has purchased Edh, and is endeavouring to purchase Brava. Her attention to Northern Abyssinia is matter of notoriety, and we must regard this system, not so much with regard to advantages which such possessions might give to ourselves, as to their prejudice to us in falling into rival hands.
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