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Lanyard looked from one to the other and chuckled quietly. With an aggrieved air De Morbihan launched into introductions: "Messieurs, I have the honour to present to you our confrere, Monsieur Lanyard, best known as 'The Lone Wolf. Monsieur Lanyard the Council of our Association, known to you as 'The Pack." The three rose and bowed ceremoniously, Lanyard returned a cool, good-natured nod.
Boyce was listening to what he had to say with the light repellent air Marcella knew so well. When she came in Wharton stepped forward ceremoniously to shake hands, then began to speak at once, with the manner of one who is on a business errand and has no time to waste.
They bowed ceremoniously to Lys as we rode up. "The trail is horrible it is a river," said the mayor in his squeaky voice. "Monsieur Darrel, I think perhaps madame would scarcely care to come any nearer." Lys drew bridle and looked at me. "It is horrible!" said Durand, walking up beside me; "it looks as though a bleeding regiment had passed this way.
If he will allow me, I will send him my valet, who is below, and is the best barber surgeon in the three kingdoms. Come, dearest madam." He bowed low and ceremoniously to Landless, who returned the salute with grave courtesy, and gave his hand to Patricia.
She started up with the activity of a young woman, went to the window, waited till the clergyman passed, and bowed to him solemnly. The clergyman ceremoniously raised his hat, and walked on. Mrs. Catherick returned to her chair, and looked at me with a grimmer sarcasm than ever. "There!" she said. "What do you think of that for a woman with a lost character? How does your speculation look now?"
She had half detected him through his disguise; in due time news of his reappearance had been ceremoniously carried to her in her little cottage, and the remembrance of her hung about him not ungratefully, as he went with delight upon his way.
Ceremoniously he took her hand and led her to an entrance beside which leaned a slender lad in a ragged blue jerkin and hose. "Robin, you will watch yonder at the great doors. Sweet lady, I stand here, and none shall enter. But remember that the time is short at any moment the gallery may fill." "There is no long time needed," said Damans.
"At your service, Madame," he replied, as he ceremoniously kissed the hands of both the ladies, then turned to the men and shook them both warmly by the hand. Sally was already helping the ladies to take off their traveling cloaks, and both turned, with a shiver, towards the brightly-blazing hearth. There was a general movement among the company in the coffee-room.
In the same month he had been ceremoniously, inaugurated at Bruges as Count of Flanders an occasion upon which the Prince of Orange had been present.
True, they had to admit to themselves that the young soldier did not appear like a "ruthless monster" and that his conduct thus far had been almost ceremoniously polite; yet all this might be but a blind on the part of a cunning and unscrupulous foe.
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