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As she spoke Ethel slipped in several Swiss carvings, the best of the trinkets, and a parcel of dainty Parisian ties and sashes which would gladden the hearts of the poor, pretty girls, just beginning to need such aids to their modest toilets. A big box of bonbons completed her contribution, and left but one empty corner.
He was one of those rare individuals who, when the opportunity of chance refuses to come, makes one. "Germany and Austria are great countries," he mused, lighting a cigar. "Every hundredth man is a king, one in fifty is a duke, every tenth man is a prince, and one can not take a corner without bumping into a count or a baron.
"He don't always stop to think of his family." "What did he ever do that struck you as being over-generous?" I asked of the young man who had spoken from the corner. "That's all right," he replied in a rather irritated and peevish tone; "I ain't going to go into details now, but there's people around here that hang on him, and that he's give to, that he hadn't orter."
A wash-stand in the corner, a chest of carved mahogany drawers, a looking-glass in a filigreed frame, and a high-backed chair studded with brass nails like a coffin, constituted the furniture.
The first thing was to trundle the old building out of the way; so a "bee" was called, and a number of the Indians assembled, and with levers and rollers, and after working hard for a couple of days, the school was twisted round and removed to the far corner of the lot. Then the foundations were dug for the new church.
This fragment of my dear friend's talk came back to me now as we walked in silence side by side. Out of the corner of my eye I could see her sweet face set in earnest thinking, her rich lips compressed, her speaking eyes fixed resolutely ahead.
Elizabeth's desk and painting box were banished to the top of her chest-of-drawers, where her looking-glass stood in a dark corner, being by no means interesting to her.
After him, Kanets appeared from some corner a dark, sad-looking, silent drunkard: then the former governor of the prison, Luka Antonovitch Martyanoff, a man who existed on "remeshok," "trilistika" and "bankovka," * and many such cunning games, not much appreciated by the police. Well-known games or chance, played by the lower classes. The police specially endeavor to stop them, but unsuccessfully.
My "History of Renaissance Morals" can lie in its corner and rot, whilst I shall concern myself with a far more vital theme The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. The rough entries in my diary have been a habit of many futile years; but they have never sufficed for self-expression. I have not needed it till now.
I heard lots of people say the same thing. You ought to have heard what the women said about that corner, Sophia. They said well, I'd be ashamed to tell you what they said. I declare if I wouldn't!" Mr. Elwell asked, "What did you think of that big ox we've heard so much about?" "I didn't look at the stock," returned his sister indifferently.
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