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A pail of water stood beside her; and around lay scatter'd a score or more of long thorns, cut to the shape of hair pins. 'Tis probable that after a minute's watching I let some laughter escape me. At any rate Joan turned, spied me, and scrambled up, with an angry red on her cheek. "Why, Joan," said I, "don't be anger'd. It suits you choicely it does indeed." "Art scoffing, I doubt."
The passing touch of their little white hands that supported the heavy golden salvers seemed to add new savor to the luscious fare, the timorous fire of their downcast eyes, softly sparkling through the veil of their long lashes, gave extra warmth to the ambrosial wine, and he could not refrain from occasionally whispering a tender flattery or delicate compliment in the ear of one or other of his sylph-like servitors, though they all appeared curiously unmoved by his choicely worded adulation.
The president passed to me a choicely bound volume, in which was contained the original edition, published in 1788, of the letters of Charlotte Elizabeth de Baviere, widow of the Duke of Orleans, the only brother of Louis XIV, and, while I was transcribing the passage already quoted, he said: "But, gentlemen, you must all have received at your houses the notification in which the second question is stated."
Here and there in the glittering huddle my eye lighted on an object that was a hundred, perhaps two hundred, years old: a cup very choicely wrought, that may have been in a family for several generations; a watch of a curious figure, and the like.
I found it in a box of precious things that Fanny's mother had hoarded so choicely, because Fanny had been choice of them. I must read it, for everything of Fanny's is dear to us now. Ah! 'tis a note from a gentleman who was at school with us at F , whom Fanny esteemed so much, whom we both esteemed for his sterling integrity and his gentleness. It is precious, too, as a reminder of him.
But now it took on a look of relief and of something that suggested malicious cunning. "That," said Castelroux in my ear, "is the King's commissioner." Did I not know it? I never waited to answer him, but, striding across the room, I held out my hand over the table to Chatellerault. "My dear Comte," I cried, "you are most choicely met."
Wilding was deeply touched by this proof of friendship, and for a second, as deeply nonplussed, at loss now how to discharge the task on which he came. "You are very choicely come, Mr. Wilding," said Albemarle. "You will be able to resolve me certain doubts which have been set on foot by these traitors." "That," said Mr. Wilding, "is the purpose for which I am here.
"Anthony!" And in the background Walters cursed him for a fool. Wilding leapt to his feet, awake and startled. "Wha... Nick!" "Oons!" roared Nick. "You're choicely found. I came to send to Bridgwater for you. We must away at once, man." "How away? I thought you were in the fight, Nick." "And don't I look as if I had been?" "But then.. "The fight is fought and lost; there's an end to the garboil.
There you have Bunker Bean at a familiar, prosaic moment in an afternoon of his twenty-third year. But his prosaic moments are numbered. How few they are to be! Already the door of Enchantment has swung to his scared touch. The times will show a scar or two from Bean. Bean the prodigious! The choicely perfect toy of Destiny at frolic! Bean the innocent the monstrous!
These were the princes Kais and Abdullah Shehaab, and Francis El Kazin, whom the Levantines called Caseno, and the principal members of the Young Syria party; some of them beardless Sheikhs, but all choicely mounted, and each holding on his wrist a falcon; for this was the first day of the year that they might fly.
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