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Think again." Here Mr Witherington was interrupted by two taps at the door. "Come in," said he; and the cook, with her face as red as if she had been dressing a dinner for eighteen, made her appearance without the usual clean apron. "If you please, sir," said she, curtseying, "I will thank you to suit yourself with another cook."
Mrs Phillips, the nurse, was soon in the room, and immediately, with practised hand, closed those staring eyes. 'It's all over, Mrs Phillips? asked Mr Harding. 'My lord's no more, said Mrs Phillips, turning round and curtseying with a solemn face; 'His lordship's gone more like a sleeping baby than any that I ever saw.
The wonders were done: one hundred and seventy guests plenteously fed at tables across the great Concert Hall, down a length of the conservatory- glass, on soups, fish, meats, and the kitchen-garden, under play of creative sauces, all in the persuasive steam of savouriness; every dish, one may say, advancing, curtseying, swimming to be your partner, instead of passively submitting to the eye of appetite, consenting to the teeth, as that rather melancholy procession of the cold, resembling established spinsters thrice-corseted in decorum, will appear to do.
Two days later the British came. Mrs. Murray knew the danger that threatened the Americans. Her woman's wit and woman's charm must save the hour. So smiling she stood in the doorway, curtseying and inviting. The day was hot; the officers thirsty.
It's supposed by divines to be the curse of Eve: because she did not say it when the devil offered her the apple, her daughters can say nothing else." "Since I am so soon to lose my bonny professor," I began. "This is gallant, indeed," says she curtseying. "I would put the one question," I went on. "May I ask a lass to marry to me?" "You think you could not marry her without!" she asked.
For as Miss Usher looked at Winny she drew herself up and her red mouth stiffened. Ranny's tension relaxed when Winny flung herself from side to side again and over, and lighted on her feet in the little curtseying posture, perfunctory and pathetic. He clapped his hands. "'Jove! That's good!" He was smiling tenderly. He turned to Miss Usher, eager and delighted. "Well what'd you think of it?"
"I am sure nothing on earth would give me greater pleasure," said Miss Oriel, getting up and curtseying very low to Dr Thorne; "but I am not quite prepared for the agitation of an offer this morning, so I'll run away." And so she went; and the doctor, getting on his other horse, started again for Silverbridge, wearily enough. "She's happy now where she is," said he to himself, as he rode along.
Breezy Jim and Bill agreeing, the NAUTILUS cast off, with instructions to anchor at the old spot and to work until the bosses returned. There was more than one drink as the steamer forged ahead, with Black Charley's cutter romping and curtseying behind. Then tea-time came, and the captain asked his guests to remain.
Susannah began her question impetuously, but Elvira silenced her. "Hush! Don't let the other women know that it isn't yours. Poor things, they will begin to ask why it isn't theirs. Do you think that we are living on bowing terms, curtseying to each other and saying, 'After you, madam, if you please'?" Elvira was changed. Terror had at last done its work.
Patience, curtseying low, came up anxiously, showing the same honest face as of old, though work and anxiety had traced their lines on the sun-burnt complexion, and Ben stood blushing, and showing his keener, more cultivated face, as the stranger turned to greet them so as to give Steadfast time to recover himself. "Oh! sir, but we are glad to see your reverence," cried Patience.
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