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Updated: June 7, 2025
In the corner behind the curtain, bounded by the refreshment table, and filled with the prompter's monotonous drawl, far, far from his barley ripe for the mowing, his boxwood peacocks, his greyhaired Hal and his buxom milkmaids; far from old madam, the pedantic, formal vicar, young madam, brisk, hot, and genial, and his old charmers Prissy and Fiddy, the squire told his tale of true love.
The two weeks of Rose's visit sped only too rapidly. There was so much that they wanted to show her, and there were so many people whom they wanted her to see, and so many people who, as soon as they saw her, became urgent that she should do this and that with them, that life soon became a tangle of impossibilities. Rose was one of those charmers that cannot be hid.
They form the greater number of the amiable opportunists whom one might call "The Charmers."
The little hymns in praise of the charms of these girls were generally adorned with pen or pencil sketches of the fair charmers themselves. Poor Miss Jane had a sad time of it. As the accomplished principal of a choice Young Ladies Boarding and Day School, she enjoyed an enviable position in the politest society in town.
Old and young, pretty and plain, noble and humble, native and foreign, all were fish that came to the net of this lady-killer, who not only vowed allegiance to nearly every petticoat that crossed his path, but a much more remarkable feat kept up an impassioned correspondence with a large selection of his charmers.
In Egypt, on the other hand, the cobra, the asp, and the cerastes are as numerous as ever, and are much dreaded by all the natives except the professional snake charmers. The recent great multiplication of vipers in some parts of France is a singular and startling fact.
In the account of the Lancashire trials we shall see that the two families whose quarrels started the trouble were the lowest of low hill-country people, beggars and charmers, lax in their morals and cunning in their dealings.
The jungles all round us wuz, I spoze, filled with wild animals. Elephants, tigers and serpents, big and little, besides monkeys and more harmless ones. The snake charmers did dretful strange things with 'em, but I didn't look on. I always said that if snakes would let me alone, I would let them alone.
Verisschenzko's Calmuck eyes narrowed. "And does this result of the fusion of snake charmers figure in the family history? I believe I have met him his name is Ferdinand, is it not, and he is, or was, in some business in Constantinople?" "That is the creature he was brought up at Ardayre as though he were the heir, and poor John turned out of things.
You know he's from India and that's where all the snake charmers and sword swallowers come from, ain't it?" In this perfectly simple and artless fashion Cynthia's son went about the creation of his own special Sunday-school class and when he got through the result was startling. It was the largest and somebody said the weirdest Sunday-school class ever seen in Green Valley. Indeed, when Mr.
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