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Updated: June 21, 2025
It was in the chilliest hour the one before dawn that a voice suddenly called out from the fog ahead: "Qui va la?" Tristram halted, then took another step forward in some uncertainty. The voice repeated its challenge in an angrier tone; and this time our hero stood stock-still. The misfortune was that he knew not a word of the French language. Once more the voice called.
There should have been a drive that afternoon Gertrude and Paul, with Mrs. Diedrich to play gooseberry and Mrs. Diedrich had fallen ill. Paul presented himself at the appointed hour, and no Gertrude was there to meet him. Instead of the Presence a note couched in the chilliest terms: 'Dear Friend, 'Mrs. Diedrich is shockingly unwell to-day, and I cannot leave her.
Carew in her chilliest accents. "What in the world does this mean? Where have you been? I have looked everywhere for you. I even went 'way back to the suit department." Pollyanna turned with a happy little cry. "Oh, Mrs. Carew, I'm so glad you've come," she rejoiced. "This is well, I don't know her name yet, but I know HER, so it's all right. I met her in the Public Garden ever so long ago.
"Madonna," I heard him answer, with a snarl, "I may yet prove to you that you have been unwise so to use Ramiro del' Orca." "If you so much as venture to address me again upon the subject," she returned in the very chilliest accents, "I will lay this matter of your odious suit before your master Cesare Borgia."
IT is somewhat more than a year and a half since Kenelm Chillingly left England, and the scene now is in London, during that earlier and more sociable season which precedes the Easter holidays, season in which the charm of intellectual companionship is not yet withered away in the heated atmosphere of crowded rooms, season in which parties are small, and conversation extends beyond the interchange of commonplace with one's next neighbour at a dinner-table, season in which you have a fair chance of finding your warmest friends not absorbed by the superior claims of their chilliest acquaintances.
If she had not up to that night felt a very strong love for the son of Myrsus, she had, at least, ever exhibited toward him that grave and serene tenderness which every virtuous woman entertains for her husband, although the altogether Greek freedom of his morals frequently displeased her, and though he entertained ideas at variance with her own in regard to modesty; but after such an affront she could only feel the chilliest hatred and most icy contempt for him; she would have preferred even death to one of his caresses.
"It is no matter that the place is joyless for him; that he is weary of the old wooden houses, the mud and the dust, the dead level of site and sentiment, the chill east wind, and the chilliest of social atmospheres; all these and whatever faults besides he may see or imagine, are nothing to the purpose. The spell survives, and just as powerfully as if the natal spot were an earthly paradise."
Religiously it was a warm time; but the water was very cold, it being one of the chilliest days I ever felt in that genial climate. "You were rather awkward, Brother Fitzgerald, in immersing those persons," said my stalwart friend, Elder John McCorkle, of the "Christian" or Campbellite Church, who had critically but not unkindly watched the proceedings from the bridge.
So I went to one of those bookcases and pulled out a touch-me-not book from behind the glass door. Then I sat down and read till the supper-bell rang. Father was five minutes late to supper. I don't know whether he looked at me or not. I didn't dare to look at him until Aunt Jane said, in her chilliest manner: "I trust your daughter had good lessons, Charles." I had to look at him then.
"Ay," said Robbie, and the tone and manner were sufficient to drench any enthusiasm with the chilliest of water.
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