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She poured forth a torrent of eager, excited words, and at last Dampier turned to his wife: "They got my letter, but of course had no address to which they could answer, and and it's rather a bore, darling but they don't seem to have any rooms vacant." But even as he spoke the fat, cheerful-looking Frenchwoman put her hand on the young Englishman's arm.
Lots of people have thought that, and they're either disappearing in quicklime beneath some corridor of a prison, or doing time at Portland. I wonder if Winter also is coming down on this job." "Who is 'Winter'?" "The Chief Inspector at the 'Yard. A big, cheerful-looking fellow from his appearance might be a gentleman-farmer and J. P., with a taste for horses and greyhounds.
That afternoon three cheerful-looking Italians strolled about Black Hawk, looking at everything, and with them was a dark, stout woman who wore a long gold watch chain about her neck and carried a black lace parasol. They seemed especially interested in children and vacant lots. When I overtook them and stopped to say a word, I found them affable and confiding.
Henrietta thought that Beatrice would have offered to save her the trouble, but this would not have been at all according to the habits of grandmamma or granddaughter, and Mrs. Langford briskly led the way to a large cheerful-looking room, talking all the time and saying she supposed Henrietta would like to be with her mamma.
The result is as nearly as possible the opposite to the effect produced by a crinoline. I have returned from a very hot drive to visit a sugar refinery and a cigar manufactory. I saw little to interest at the former, except the process of making chocolate by mixing cocoa, cinnamon, and sugar. At the latter, some 8,000 girls were employed, not very pretty, but cheerful-looking.
"The trees known as evergreens," said Miss Harson, "are not so bright and cheerful-looking as those which are deciduous, or leaf-shedding, but they have the advantage of being clothed with foliage, although of a sober hue, all the year round.
We were obliged to give up our passports at the barrier, the officer telling us to call for them in three hours at the City Police Office; we spent the intervening time very agreeably in rambling through this gay, cheerful-looking town. With its gilded spires and ornamented houses, with their green lattice blinds, it reminds one strongly of Italy, or at least, of what Italy is said to be.
Judith started violently. She rushed into the house, and slammed the door behind her so that the walls echoed. The tax-gatherer gave the speaker an approving glance, and sighed. Then Jesus asked him: "Are you fond of her?" "She is his neighbour!" observed a cheerful-looking little man who formed one of the band of travellers.
I set off in high glee, and my first sight of the crowded streets and the cheerful-looking shops quite took me out of myself.
Mosgrave's letter to a neatly-dressed, cheerful-looking, middle-aged woman, who came tripping out of a little chamber which opened out of the hall, and was very much like the bureau of an hotel.
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