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But I had to go to the infirmary for medicine, and it was noon when I got here, and then I found this lady standing outside with a policeman, a very nice lady, a very nice lady indeed, sir, I pay my respects to her" and she actually dropped me a curtsey like a peasant woman in a play "and they took my key from me, and the policeman opens the door, and he and me go upstairs and into all the rooms, and when we come to this one "
Yes, it is true, we have almost forgotten the old accomplishment of "bridling" the head up and the chin in, with the pliant knees bent in a low curtsey. Dulcie "bridled," as she prattled, to perfection. She had light brown hair, of the tint of a squirrel's fur, and the smoothness of a mouse's coat, though it was twisted and twirled into a kind of soft willowy curls when she was in high dress.
She looked up at the clerk in a wistful way, as if anxious to address him and yet afraid to do so. Then noting, perhaps, some gleam of kindness in his yellow wrinkled face, she came across to him. "D'ye think I could see Muster Girdlestone, sir," she asked, with a curtsey; "or, maybe, you're Mr. Girdlestone yourself?"
Spit it out." "All right," with a mocking curtsey. "I've got an idea I'd like to tell him; it is too good a joke to keep, and this fellow has certainly been an easy mark. You never did catch on to me until I got into the wrong clothes, did you, old dear? Lord, but I could have had you making love to me, if I'd only have said the word out there on the hills in the dark, hey!
This advice obtained Napoleon's entire approbation, and was followed. De Segur was permitted to retire, but when Madame Remusat made a curtsey also to leave the room, she was stopped with his terrible 'aux arrets' and left under the care and responsibility of his aide-de-camp, Lebrun, who saw her safe into her room, at the door of which he placed two grenadiers.
"'Azel 'oo, 'Azel what and say 'sir' next time, if you please." "Hazel Bowker, sir," and she dropped him a little curtsey, spoiled somewhat by agitation and her crutch. "Bowker Bowker?" mused Mr. Brimberly. "I've 'eard the name I don't like the name, but I've 'eard it." "My daddy works here, sir," said Hazel timidly. "Bowker Bowker!" repeated Mr. Brimberly.
"I am called Lady Berberisca," interposed the old woman, very crossly; "and I am the mistress of Albastretch." "Wretch! wretch!" groaned the echoes. "Won't you be silent, cursed chatterers?" exclaimed Lady Berberisca. "I am your humble servant," she continued, making a deep curtsey to the knight, "and if you like I will be your wife, and you shall live with me here as grand as a Pacha."
When she had hastily greeted my cousin and me, and Cousin Maud had told her who my uncle was, she went up to him in her decent way, made him a curtsey, and held out her hand, no whit abashed, while her great eyes looked up at him lovingly, inasmuch as she had heard all that was good of him from me.
"Lor, you needn't be so cross, Missis Queen," rejoined Amanda, making a mock curtsey. This retort produced a sharp altercation, in which several others readily joined, and a dozen young voices were to be heard all speaking at once.
"The best for you, my dear, will be to consider well what should be the duty of a wife." "I have considered, Lady Milborough. It cannot be a wife's duty to acknowledge that she has been wrong in such a matter as this." Then Lady Milborough made her curtsey and got herself away in some manner that was sufficiently awkward, and Mrs.
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