United States or Australia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"In the first place, I have no objection to the posters, as they have no name on them, but I do not wish to appear at all upon the stage as 'Alcide. If you engage me it must be upon my own merits. You are taking it for granted that I am 'Alcide. As a matter of fact, I am not." "Excuse me," Mr. Earles said, "but this is rubbish." "Call it what you like," Anna answered.
Earles," she said, "that if I were to tell you that although that poster was designed from a rough study of me, and although my name is Pellissier, that nevertheless, I am not 'Alcide' would you believe me?" "You can try it on, if you like," Mr. Earles remarked genially. "My only answer would be to ask you to look at that mirror and then at the poster.
Thus their minds on both parts being kindled into further wrath, the Eastangles eftsoones in the yeare following fought with them of Mercia, and ouercame them againe, and slue their king Ludicenus, who succéeded Bernulfe in that kingdome, with 5 of his earles. King Egbert gladlie receiued them, and promised to defend them from all forren enimies.
I'll give you, say, thirty-five guineas a week clear of expenses, and half of anything you earn above the two turns a night. What do you say?" "I agree," Anna said coldly, "if you will make it three months." "Better say six," Mr. Earles protested, seating himself before the desk, and dipping his pen in the ink. "Four," Anna decided firmly. "I shall not agree to six."
Who being come ouer to his father, informed him of the whole mater, and did so much by his earnest suit therin, that before the feast of Easter, his father went ouer with him into Normandie, and immediatlie vpon their arriuall in those parts, the old French quéene, mother to the yoong king Philip, with their brethren the said earles, and manie other Noble men of France came vnto him, and concluding a league with him, deliuered hostages into his hands, and re-ceiued an oth to follow his counsell and aduice in all things.
Instinctively she had fallen into the posture of the poster, her hands behind her, her head bent slightly forward, her chin uplifted, her eyes bright with the drollery of the song. Mr. Earles closed the piano with a little bang. "You are a funny, a very funny young lady," he said, "but we waste time here. You do not need my compliments.
The woman so dead to all delicacy, all honor as to listen and suspect will never more be wife of mine." "Be pitiful," said Valentine, for Dora was weeping bitterly now; all her fire and passion, all her angry jealousy, had faded before his wrath. "I am pitiful," he replied. "Heaven knows I pity her. I pity myself. We Earles love honorable women when we love at all.
¶ I remember that William Paruus writeth, that the citie of Norwich was taken by the Flemings that came ouer with the earle of Leicester in the yeare last past, by the conduct of the said earle before he was taken, and that after he had taken that citie, being accompanied with earle Bigot, he led those Flemings also vnto Dunwich, purposing to win and sacke that towne also: but the inhabitants being better prouided against the comming of their enimies than they of Norwich were, shewed such countenance of defense, that they preserued their towne from that danger, so that the two earles with Flemings were constreined to depart without atchiuing their purpose.
From far and near friends and strangers gathered to that mournful ceremony; from one to another the story flew how beautiful she was, and how dearly the young lord had loved her, how she had wandered out of the house in her sleep and fallen into the lake. They laid her to rest in the green church-yard at the foot of the hill the burial place of the Earles.
The poster is of 'Alcide. It's a duplicate of the French one." Anna got up and looked at the mirror and then at the poster. The likeness was ridiculous. "Well?" she said, sitting down again. "I want an engagement." "Capital!" Mr. Earles declared. "Any choice as to which of the Halls? You can pick and choose, you know. I recommend the 'Unusual." "I have no choice," Anna declared.
Word Of The Day