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"And after you have breakfasted," continued Charlton, "call me up again, and I'll answer your questions." With that he hung up his receiver. Jane threw herself angrily back against her pillow. She would lie there for an hour, then call him again. But if he should ask her whether she had obeyed his orders? True, she might lie to him; but wouldn't that be too petty?
Bobus breakfasted with his friend. "Damn it, Borodaile," said he, as the latter was receiving the ultimate polish of the hairdresser, "I never saw you look better in my life. It will be a great pity if that fellow shoots you." "Shoots me!" said Lord Borodaile, very quietly, "me! no! that is quite out of the question; but joking apart, Bobus, I will not kill the young man. Where shall I hit him?"
After I had breakfasted, I sought the lounge room in order to have a look at the morning paper and, if possible, determine what I was going to do for a living and how I was going to get what I wanted to do. I was buried in the advertisements, when a genial voice with a nasal intonation, at my elbow, unearthed me. It was my observer of the dining-room.
The traveller cannot fail to perceive that the activity of the government of Wurtemberg, much exceeds that of many of the surrounding states. We breakfasted at Bahlingen, a handsome and regularly built town.
When, after a sleepless night, she rose, it was with the maze of disaster still unthreaded. Her usual ingenuity of resource was become impotent. Raging against her own supineness, she was yet forced into ignoble inactivity. Cicily learned that her husband had breakfasted early, and had left the house, without any message to her, or any statement as to when he might return.
While Ferdinand was thus moralising at the casement, Glastonbury appeared beneath; and his appearance dissipated this gathering gloom. 'Let us breakfast together, proposed Ferdinand. 'I have breakfasted these two hours, replied the hermit of the gate. 'I hope that on the first night of your return to Armine you have proved auspicious dreams.
P , who had a head of curly hair, was not only without a maid, but also without the use of her right arm. The fame of Charcot had brought her to Paris. Unless she breakfasted alone, which she hated, her hair must be arranged. Behold, then, the emergency for which her husband, Colonel P , had, boldly not to say recklessly, offered his services. I can see them now.
"Tell him to be sure and bring Emily with him. I cannot ask you to take pot-luck with us." "No, I thank you; I have just breakfasted. I do not keep such early hours as I did at Barragong. We turn night into day in these lands of civilization, and for a change it is remarkably pleasant. But how do you take to Scotch fare after Australia?" asked Mr.
IT was nearly daybreak when Pierre fell asleep, exhausted by emotion and hot with fever. And at nine o'clock, when he had risen and breakfasted, he at once wished to go down into Cardinal Boccanera's rooms where the bodies of Dario and Benedetta had been laid in state in order that the members of the family, its friends and clients, might bring them their tears and prayers.
In the great oven, since last night, has lain the Sunday supper of baked pork-and-beans, Indian-pudding, and brown bread, all the better the longer they bake, and all unfailing in their character of excellence. In the square room, in the green arm-chair, sits the Colonel, fast asleep. Four hours ago, he fumed and fretted about barn and cow-house, breakfasted, and had family-prayers.
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