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John laid the dessert, brought the coffee, waited all the evening and oh, how frightened he was when he came to learn that his mistress's box had been conveyed out of her own room, and it contained diamonds "Law bless us, did it now?" I wonder whether John's subsequent career has been prosperous?
We had gone out for a walk: "That dress is pretty," I said, "such and such a girl, belonging to one of my friends, has one like it." We were now seated at table. "Come, my dear, my former mistress used to sing for me at dessert; you promised, you know, to imitate her." She sat down at the piano. "Ah! pardon me, but will you play that waltz that was so popular last winter?
"I can't take advantage of her heavenly courage. She doesn't realize the weight of opinion. It would make " "Stuff," she interrupted. "You'd make steel, and I would make an occasional dessert. You must be told, Jimmy, that the afternoon calling you have confused with life really isn't done any more. You have been brought up in rather a deadly way. You ought to be saved from yourself.
Every time she was coming back she uttered a piercing scream which made all the little urchins come round, and, down below, beneath the garden hedge, she vaguely saw a row of mischievous heads, who made various grimaces as they laughed. When a servant girl came out, they ordered lunch. "Some fried fish, a stewed rabbit, salad, and dessert," Madame Dufour said, with an important air.
He indulged no slightest reference to the accident; he assumed, willingly enough, that Cope had done well in a sudden emergency, but did not care to dwell on his judgment at the beginning. Still, a young man was properly enough experimental, venturesome... Cope had recovered himself by the time dessert was reached.
At the last meal I took at the house there were only a few at the table. Among them was a well dressed Californian who evidently did not greatly fancy American cooking, but got along very well till Mrs. Brier brought around the dessert, a sort of duff.
Of course, when he is sent out, after causing this little excitement, he proceeds to eat anything that happens to be handy; and, as the cook does not wish to be eaten herself, she bears her bitter wrong in silence, only hoping that the two pounds of butter which the animal took as dessert may make him excessively unwell. Now I ask any man and brother, or lady and sister, is a St.
"Aside from your red hair, the pug nose and the freckles, you have many excellent qualities. If you didn't squint " "Squint!" "What do you call that affection of your eyes?" "That," she said, calmly eating her dessert, "was a glance of scorn burning, bitter scorn!" "I maintain it was a squint," declared Arthur.
The grammateus alluded to this, and most positively insisted that he could not release him; for he came not only by his own wish, but in obedience to the command of Queen Arsinoe, who desired to tell the creator of the Demeter how highly she esteemed his work and his art. She would appear herself at dessert, and the banquet must therefore begin at an unusually early hour.
It was this story that Narcisse had related at dessert to Pierre, who already knew some portion of it. People asserted that if the Prince had ended by yielding after a final terrible scene, it was only from fear of seeing Celia elope from the palace with her lover.
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