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Updated: May 11, 2025
Was ever man so unfortunate, and so unlucky? But for the contretemps concerning that wretched sunshade, he would now have been a hopeful, and almost a triumphant, lover. Now life was all altered for him!
Moreover, none here knows of the experience through which I passed, and the contretemps averted by my own presence of mind. Therefore, it is quite plain that the would-be joker has been playing similar pranks upon others at Fernbridge. I wonder whether Miss Hamm herself could have been a victim of such outrageous imposition?
"Father," she said, "this is a very serious contretemps for us all. How do we not know that the girl Bauer purposely removed the valet in place of his master? The visit of the police will arouse the suspicion of our enemy, and he may trace the crime to his valet's female acquaintance. What then?" "I had never thought of that!" replied the monk, halting erect before her.
It seemed unfair that death should draw near thus sensibly, with never a twinge or ache to herald its arrival. Why, there were fifty years of life in this fine, nimble body but for any contretemps like that of the deplorable present! Thus his meditations stumbled.
The delightful and sanitary custom of kissing the Bible has been done away with. The lady, in the confusion of appearing on a stage for the first time and standing on a raised platform before an audience, holds up her left hand. The court attendant jumps at her. The judge has seen the same performance many times before and hardly notices the contretemps.
The water gets cold after the second, so it's a great thing to be first, if you can." "And there are such amusing contretemps!" said Maud, the good-natured. "There seems to be a special imp of mischief abroad at these times, for something is bound to go wrong.
Thus splashed Sampson among the ducks: one of them did not show her face again till dinner. Jane Hardie accompanied her brother by invitation. The general amity was diversified and the mirth nowise lessened by constant passages of arms between Messrs. Sampson and Alfred Hardie. After tea came the first contretemps.
Without allowing himself to be disconcerted by an incident which he regarded as a simple contretemps, Seetzen proceeded in the direction of Hauran, where after a day and a half's journey he met Omar Aga, travelling with the Mecca caravan.
Edward arranged the wedding breakfast for after the ceremony; and sent the ladies up a cup of coffee, and a bit of toast apiece. They could hardly find appetite even for this; or indeed time; there was so much still to do. At ten o'clock Julia was still in the height of dressing, delayed by contretemps upon contretemps.
Invent a letter from Ferrier some party contretemps anything! I'll help you through. And if you see your mother in the morning, I will turn up in the afternoon." The two men paused. They were standing together in conference; but each was conscious of a background of hurrying thoughts that had so far been hardly expressed at all. Marsham suddenly broke out: "Sir James!
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