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As for Stuart, she had no fears for him, for his years of college life had made him an acceptable figure upon any occasion, and she was confident his broad shoulders and fine carriage could atone for any slightly antique cut of lapel or coat-tail. Altogether, it was a very happy young person who embraced Mr. David Warne, shook hands with Mr.
It was a coward's revenge, but it was an effective one. Mr. Bickford leaped, either in pain or in order to pursue the fleeing Marengo, and fell over the side of the carriage. His coat-tail held fast in the door, and suspended him, his toes and fingers just touching the ground. When he jumped he threw the nest as far as he could, and it fell under the horses.
Imagine that stately, noble presence a-scrunchin' herself in to make a taper on herself or to have her long, graceful, stately draperies cut off into a coat-tail bask the idee! Here wuz the beauty and dignity of the human form, onbroken by vanity and folly. And I did hope my misguided sect would take it to heart.
"'What on earth is the matter? asked Bradley, as his children followed their mother's lead, except that they buried their faces in his coat-tail pockets. 'What has happened? "'Mary! gasped Mrs. Bradley." "The jewel?" asked Bessie. "The same," returned Thaddeus, with a smile. "She was the jewel, alas! now deprived of her former glorious setting. "'What's the matter with Mary? asked Bradley.
The persons present usually expressed their admiration in warm terms of what was shown to them. On one occasion I gently pulled the coat-tail of one of the listeners and confidentially said to him, as if I knew all about it, "My papa's a kevie Fellae!" My father was so greatly amused by this remark that he often referred to it as "the last good thing" from that old-fashioned creature little Jamie.
It so happened that, in these saltations, he ascended a stool near the curtain behind which Monsieur and Madame Giraud were ensconced. Somewhat agitated by a slight flutter behind the folds, which made him fancy, on the sudden panic, that Rosalie was creeping that way, the epicier made an abrupt pirouette, and the hook on which the curtains were suspended caught his left coat-tail,
But scarcely had he sunk down before he sprang up again, with a loud cry, and drew out of his coat-tail pocket a knubbly little object, which he hurled away far down the avenue. "What's the matter with the boy?" cried Uncle Frederick, "What was that you threw away?" "Oh, it was that confounded Blücher," answered Cousin Hans, almost in tears.
"The skipper took a look ahead into the cook's eyes. 'Well, cook, says he, I 'low, says he, 'I won't. "Liz laughed an' got close t' the fool from Thunder Arm. An' I seed her touch his coat-tail, like as if she loved it, but didn't dast do no more. "'What you two goin' t' do? says the skipper. "'We 'lowed you'd marry us, says the cook, ''til we come across a parson.
The man was taller than any of the Indians; and his face, where it was not hidden by a bushy black beard, was twice the breadth of any of their faces at least. "They must have their spy somewhere," said Mr. Bruff, looking at the dark sailor in his turn. "And he may be the man." Before he could say more, his coat-tail was respectfully pulled by his attendant sprite with the gooseberry eyes. Mr.
"You haven't paid me yet for your extra face." Jane's reply was an impudent double-laugh. She was examining the different things on the bill-board, and hopping sillily from foot to foot. Gwendolyn tugged gently at a coat-tail. "Can't we run now?" she asked; "and hide?" Boom-er-oom-er-oom! "Sh!" warned the Man-Who-Makes-Faces, not stirring. "What was that!" "I don't know." Both held their breath.
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