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Thomas seemed surprised, but not alarmed. His eyes grew a little rounder, and the pink on his cheeks deepened. He looked like a choir-boy in a bad temper. "Hullo! What's up, you ass, Spencer?" inquired Phipps. Spencer said nothing. "Where shall we go?" asked Thomas. "Oh, chuck it!" said Phipps the peacemaker. Spencer and Thomas were eyeing each other warily.
Madame I said the Abbe Gelon and the Abbe Brice, and you add, 'And his son. It is your fault, dear. He must be a choir-boy, that cherub. Madame Well, but of whose son are you speaking? Her Friend Of Ernestine's son, don't you know, Albert, a picture of innocence. He heard your husband's pleasantry, and his mother was vexed. Madame My dear, I really don't know to what you refer.
The choir-boy let the cross swing from side to side, or tilt forward till it nearly fell; the curé, no longer praying, hurried behind him; the choristers and the serpent-player disappeared down a narrow turning to get back and undress quickly, the sailors hastened past in twos and threes; a good lunch was waiting for them at Les Peuples and the very thought of it quickened their pace and made their mouths water.
Here we must explain, as much for foreigners as for our own grandchildren, what a supernumerary in a government office in Paris means. The supernumerary is to the administration what a choir-boy is to a church, what the company's child is to the regiment, what the figurante is to a theatre; something artless, naive, innocent, a being blinded by illusions.
Pimpernel Schley hardly spoke at all. When someone, turning to her, asked her what she thought about the subject under discussion, she lifted her pale eyes and said, with the choir-boy drawl: "I've got no husband and never had one, so I guess I'm no kind of a judge." "I guess she's a judge of other women's husbands, though," said Mrs. Wolfstein to Lady Cardington.
Only, if you would hear the heavenly choirs before death has his triumph over you, go by night into the Baptistery, having bribed some choir-boy to sing for you, and you shall hear from that marvellous roof a thousand angels singing round the feet of San Raniero.
The cure appeared, preceded by a choir-boy, who bore the crucifix, and followed by the sacristan carrying the vase of holy water, and by some fifty women, old men, and children, who had all come to add their prayers to those of the Church. The doctor and the soldier looked at each other, and silently withdrew to a corner to make room for the kneeling crowd within and without the cottage.
He could study both as he wished to study them at that moment. Chichester was a small, cherubic man, with blue eyes, fair hair, and neat features, the sort of man who looks as if when a boy he must have been the leading choir-boy in a cathedral. There was nothing powerful in his face, but much that was amiable and winning. His chin and his forehead were rather weak.
First, to be a choir-boy; and, secondly, to dwell in Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. He turned the matter over in his mind, and patched together the following facts: The Board of Guardians meant to apprentice him, Jack, to some master, at the earliest opportunity. He was "not to say mazelin yet, but getting helpless, and uncommon mean."
His widow was a pew-opener in the cathedral hard by; his eldest son was a little scamp of a choir-boy, who played toss-halfpenny, led his little brothers into mischief, and had a voice as sweet as an angel.
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