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"That may mean the reverse." "It don't with him. But, Mrs. Lovell, do tell me you haven't lost. Not much, is it? Because, I know there's no guessing, when you are concerned." The lady trifled with her bridle-rein. "I really can't tell you yet. I may have lost. I haven't won. I'm not cool-blooded enough to bet against favourites. Addio, son of Fortune! I'm at the Opera to-night."
Wilkinson, on resolving to prospect in one parcel more before he overtook me, my eye rested an instant only on the long-lost Benjamin, clean and unspotted. A cool-blooded coolness seized me, and advancing to the table behind Mr. Lilly I quietly bid, in a perfectly natural tone, 'Sixpence, and so the bids went on increasing by sixpence until half a crown was reached, and Mr.
Had I listened to the dictates of prudence, I should, without loss of time, have obtained against him a <lettre de cachet>, which would have freed me from all chance of discovery through his means; but I could not listen to such cool-blooded, though cautious, suggestions.
"That villain," exclaimed the Dwarf, "that cool-blooded, hardened, unrelenting ruffian, that wretch, whose every thought is infected with crimes, has thewes and sinews, limbs, strength, and activity enough, to compel a nobler animal than himself to carry him to the place where he is to perpetrate his wickedness; while I, had I the weakness to wish to put his wretched victim on his guard, and to save the helpless family, would see my good intentions frustrated by the decrepitude which chains me to the spot.
Yet he looked, in his grey flannels, with his straw-hat and his eyeglass, with his lean face, his even colour, his slightly supercilious moustaches he looked a very embodiment of cool-blooded English equanimity. "But surely," suggested he, "in Italy, in summer, it is its bounden duty to be a trifle warm?" The Duchessa smiled. "You like it? So do I. But what the country really needs is rain."
He produced five marks, an unusual sum for him to have in his possession, and which would not have found itself in his hands had not his arrest on the previous evening prevented his spending considerably more than he had spent in his favourite corn-brandy. "I want it all," said Schmidt. "You are a cool-blooded fellow," laughed Dumnoff, making as though he would return the coins to his pocket.
Had I listened to the dictates of prudence, I should, without loss of time, have obtained against him a lettre de cachet, which would have freed me from all chance of discovery through his means; but I could not listen to such cool-blooded, though cautious, suggestions.
She was genuinely tired, after an athletic morning at the club, a luncheon amid a group of chattering intimates, and a walk with the young man whose attentions to her were thrilling not only her grandmother and aunts, but the cool-blooded little Leslie herself.
Villain as he is; a villain not by habit or by passion, but by principle; a cool-blooded, systematic villain; yet she will give him affluence and the means of depraving thousands by his example and his rhetoric, on condition that he refuses to marry the woman whom he has made an adulteress; who has imbibed, from the contagion of his discourse, all the practical and speculative turpitude which he has to impart.
Parker had been a trying fiance; he was a cool-blooded, fishlike little man; there had been other complications: her father's heavy financial losses, her mother's discontent in the lingering engagement, her sister's persisting state of unmarriedness. However, the old aunt was at last dead.
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