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For my part I dont believe, and I never did believe, that there was anything real in the business. This last move of his proves it to my satisfaction, at any rate." Lady Carbury, with a slight but impressive bridling, and yet with an evident sense of discomfiture, proceeded to assert herself before the clergyman. "I beg you will control yourself, Jasper," she said.
Now look at that, will you?" I followed his gaze of admiring fondness to where Mrs. Jarvis was, bridling and simpering under Esculapius's compliments. "Isn't she a nosegay? But don't you be jealous, madam; she's just wrapped up in me, and constant," he added, shaking his head reflectively; "why, bless your soul, she's as constant as sin." When I told Esculapius of this he sighed deeply.
His first step towards gaining the affections of his subjects, was the moderating of his passions, and bridling his inclinations. 10. He discarded those who had been the ministers of his pleasures, though he had formerly taken great pains in the selection. 11.
"I should think I had just enough to pay you," said the other, bridling up suddenly; for it seemed to him the Young Doctor had become ironical and mocking; and though he had been mocked much in his day, there were times when it was not easy to endure it.
"If he makes you happy I shall be more than satisfied," the Count murmured, "but, lady, loving you as I do, I do not wish to see you married to a heretic." "What do you mean, Senor?" asked Lysbeth, bridling.
"It is an excellent match; and his carelessness now well, it is only to be expected from a young man who would carry his mother off from from our care, to be looked after by a hired nurse. He thought," said Mrs. Dale, bridling her head and pursing up her lips, "that a lot of 'fussy old women' couldn't take care of her. Still, it will be a good marriage for Lois.
"I lost him some years ago, and when you came here inquiring for a seafaring man I thought you might somehow have brought news." "You must see, mother, that this gentleman is looking for somebody else," said the girl; "you are hindering him from finding Captain Jackson." "If he's been looking for him for years," said the old woman, bridling mildly, "a few minutes will not make much difference."
Unsuspicious of evil, and bridling at gratified vanity at this attention from a stranger of such distinguished mien, the spoil-bedecked fair one replied to him as she had done to others. "I bought this ornament, some weeks back, in Venice, at the store of a Greek trader from the Levant." "Ha!" exclaimed the stranger; "and where dwelt this Greek, that I may see and ask him for another such?"
To see her, a woman already past her youth, and aged by her very efforts to preserve it, trembling and bridling under the cool eye of masculine indifference, was a spectacle the more humiliating that he was too young to be moved by its human and pathetic side.
"Am I to understand, sir, that you are referring to my friend as a horse-thief?" he demanded, bridling. "I merely asked you to take that message to him," said Kenneth coolly. "I might add cattle-thief, sheep-stealer, hog-thief or " "Why, good God, sir," gasped Mr. Trentman, "he'd shoot you down like a dog if I " "You may also tell Mr. Lapelle that his bosom friend Martin Hawk is in jail."
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