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For curiosity's sake, I should be delighted to know how you would set about it " "I am delighted to put a new interest into your life," interrupted Montriveau, breaking into a laugh which dismayed the Duchess. "Will you permit me to take you to the ball tonight?" "A thousand thanks. M. de Marsay has been beforehand with you. I gave him my promise." Montriveau bowed gravely and went.
But as to their coming back why, it stands to reason that they'll have just as much curiosity about us as we have about them. Curiosity's a woman's strong point, you know. Oh, they'll come back all right! The only question is, How soon?" "It made me dream of music of Siegfried." It was Pete Murphy who spoke and he seemed to plump from sleep straight into the conversation.
"She didn't like her as a woman; she praised her as an actress." "I thought you said she wasn't an actress then," Nick returned. Peter had a pause. "Oh Biddy thought so. She has seen her since, moreover. I took her the other night, and her curiosity's satisfied." "It's not of any consequence, and if there's a reason for it I'll bundle her off directly," Nick made haste to say.
Munday's not here now, that's settled but I'll for curiosity's sake show you into the 'mad cells." Mr.
"I sold him his entire line, and he was pleased with what he bought because the old line he had been handling, he told me frankly, had not been giving satisfaction. "Just for curiosity's sake I dropped in on my old man. I wanted to find out exactly what he was kicking about, anyway. "'Now, what's the matter with this stuff I've sold you? said I to him.
"This might become a pretty little room," said the Kammerjunker, "but we have enough, and therefore we let this, for curiosity's sake, remain in its old state.
Shadows gesticulated in the park and murmured the horror they felt. They were the inhabitants of the borough of Neuilly, who had come for curiosity's sake and to bring help. Some threw water from a fire engine on the burning edifice, making a fiery rain of sparks arise. A thick volume of smoke rose over the castle.
Yet what are we to make of those shocks that we felt just now; were they merely the result of the earth tremor communicated to the water, and through it to the hull of the ship; or were we actually swept violently over the surface of a shoal? I should like, just for curiosity's sake, to take a cast of the " He paused suddenly.
"Now your curiosity's satisfied, child," continued Kneebone, "perhaps, you'll attend to my orders." Not a little perplexed by the mysterious object she had seen, Rachel left the room, and, shortly afterwards returned with the materials of a tolerably good supper; to wit, a couple of cold fowls, a tongue, the best part of a sirloin of beef, a jar of pickles, and two small dishes of pastry.
The diggers were now so far advanced in their labours as to discover that the sides of the grave which they were clearing out had been originally secured by four walls of freestone, forming a parallelogram, for the reception, probably, of the coffin. "It is worth while proceeding in our labours," said the Antiquary to Sir Arthur, "were it but for curiosity's sake.
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