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The crinkles of Gertrude's hair were crisp with it; her French print dress, beautiful in itself, was made with French daintiness and worn with at least equal coquettishness; her wrists bore two or three bracelets both valuable and delicate; and Gertrude's eyes, pretty eyes too, were audacious with the knowledge of all this.
He acted automatically, drawing out for her the chair opposite his own, and sat down again. "Say, but I'm hungry!" she exclaimed, pulling off her gloves. She smiled at him, wanly, yet with a brazen coquettishness become habit. "Hungry!" he repeated idly. "I guess you'd be, if you'd only had a fried egg and a cup of coffee to-day, and nothing last night."
"I will get some more sassafras for you to-morrow," said Jerome. "And I will give you some more gingerbread if you will take it," said she, with a sweet coquettishness. "I will, if you want me to," said Jerome. They were out in the front yard then, a gust of wind pressed under the trees, and seemed to blow them together.
"The certificate showed that the young girl had left of her own free will, in order to return to France, and the only thing which they had had to find fault in her during her long period of service was a little French coquettishness. "This prudish English phrase even made me smile, and I immediately engaged this maid. "She came to me the same day. Her name was Rose.
"Now be a darling child and say that we'll have the wedding next week without any fuss or feathers." "I am not ready to get married, and I simply will not be married just yet," declared the girl, her red lips compressed. "You don't love me!" complained Dodd. "I like you, Richard," admitted the girl, frankly, without any coquettishness. "I have never cared for anybody else.
Sidonie sat down as soon as she entered the room, pushing aside her long white skirt, which sank like a mass of snow at the foot of the divan; and with sparkling eyes and a smile playing about her lips, bending her little head slightly, its saucy coquettishness heightened by the bow of ribbon on the side, she waited. Frantz, pale as death, remained standing, looking about the room.
Unlike the late Duke d'Orleans, he has no princely coquettishness, which is such a victorious grace, and has no desire to appear agreeable. He rarely seeks to please individuals. He loves the nation, the country, his profession, the sea.
Now her timid coquettishness was giving way to anger. "What are you trying to tell me?" she asked. "It's none of my business, but I thought you'd be glad to find out what'd take off about fifty pounds." "And is this why you came to see me?" she demanded. "I didn't come to see you." "My father said you were waiting and he sent me to you." "Sent you," replied Mr. Pike in frank surprise.
Edmund was absent at the moment, engaged in some inquiries which interested him, under the guidance of Ala and her customary attendants. I forget why Jack and I had stayed behind, since both Juba and Henry had accompanied Edmund, but it was probably because we wished to make some necessary repairs to our garments for I confess that I shared a little of the coquettishness of Jack in that matter.
"You amazing child!" the Emperor repeated. "You talk as if you were forty years old. Tell me precisely what is troubling you, for I must have failed to fathom it, and be sure I shall reply officially as Emperor and Pontifex." "What troubles me," said Brinnaria, "is the dread that my wild and tomboyish behavior may be as displeasing to the Goddess as coquettishness or wantonness.
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