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The gloom was impenetrable, but a couple of matches gave Cadmus all the light needed, and a minute later he brought forth the fine animal, who whinnied with pleasure at recognizing his mistress, despite the gloom. Jennie gave what help she could in saddling and bridling him, the other two men standing a little way off in silence.
He had expected to see a pretty yellow girl, but had been prepared for no such radiant vision of beauty as this which now confronted him. "Does does you mean ter say, Mis' Walden, dat dat dis young lady is yo' own daughter?" he stammered, rallying his forces for action. "Why not, Mr. Wain?" asked Mis' Molly, bridling with mock resentment.
My brother has a beautiful voice, Mrs. Benker; and much harm he has done with it amongst your sex." "He never harmed me," said Mrs. Benker, bridling. "I am a respectable woman and a widow with one son. But your brother " "He's a blackguard," interrupted Franklin; "hand and glove with the very worst people in London. You may be thankful he did not cut your throat or steal your furniture."
He seemed to me then an apostle of unworldly ardor, bridling his life." The Whig administration, which for some time had been growing very unpopular, was defeated and went out of power in 1841. From the very beginning of the session their overthrow was imminent.
It was, in fact, a long pole, garnished, according to the Norman custom, with cross-bars, on which were perched turkeys bridling in the sunshine. "Let us go in." And Pécuchet accosted the farmer, who yielded to their request. They traced a line with whiting in the middle of the press, tied down the claws of a turkey-cock, then stretched him flat on his belly, with his beak placed on the line.
Thrice he interrupted, and thrice the ladies, suspending their conversation for a moment, eyed him with tender pity before resuming it. "Me and Frank thought of October," said Elizabeth, speaking for the first time. She looked at Captain Barber, and then at her mother. It was the look of one offering to sell a casting vote. "October's early," said the old lady, bridling. Mrs.
In her opinion it was all pure 'cussedness. Catherine Leyburn had always conducted her life on principles entirely different from those of other people. Mrs. Thornburgh wholly denied, as she sat bridling by herself, that it was a Christian necessity to make yourself and other people uncomfortable. Yet this was what this perverse young woman was always doing.
Great numbers of gentlemen and yeomen quitted the open country, and repaired to those towns which had been founded and incorporated for the purpose of bridling the native population, and which, though recently placed under the government of Roman Catholic magistrates, were still inhabited chiefly by Protestants.
'Do you know all these people here? 'Oh, dear, no! she cried, feeling the very question malevolent. 'I don't know any of them. My husband wishes to lead a very retired life, she added, bridling a little, by way of undoing the effect of her admissions. 'And you don't wish it? The disagreeable eyes smiled again. 'Oh! I don't know, said Lucy.
Sometimes one of them would try her front door, and then, with a bridling toss of the head, express that she had forgotten locking it, and slip round to the kitchen; but most of the ladies made their way back at once between the roses and syringas of their grassy door-yards, which were as neat and prim as their own persons, or the best chamber in their white- walled, green-shuttered, story-and-a-half house, and as perfectly kept as the very kitchen itself.
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