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She wrote in that strain of facile sympathy which seems part of an Englishwoman's education, and often begged him to believe that the more she knew of their sweet and heavenly-minded guest the more keenly she realised how dreary for him must have been the pang of parting and how arid the months of separation. Mrs. Simpson herself was well acquainted with these trials of the spirit.
Her last conscious thoughts were of Margaret Lampton. What was she doing to-night? What were her thoughts? Late that night, as Abdul passed the Englishwoman's tent, he spat at her door. Weigall's Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt. What was Margaret doing that night? Many days had passed since she had heard from Michael, but there was nothing in that to cause her anxiety.
Micheline, lowering her eyes, and awed by the Englishwoman's grandeur, timidly said: "I accept it, Madame, as a token of friendship." "I think I recognize this bracelet, Madame," observed Serge. "Yes; you gave it to me," replied Lady Harton, quietly. "Semper I beg your pardon, Madame, we Poles all speak Latin Semper means 'Always! It is a great word.
Mercy approached him with the candle. The light disclosed the frightful injury which a fragment of the shell had inflicted on the Englishwoman's head. Surgeon Surville's manner altered on the instant. The expression of anxiety left his face; its professional composure covered it suddenly like a mask. What was the object of his admiration now? An inert burden in his arms nothing more.
"Wait until he wait a little while." She put her arm about her and pulled her gently away. "I'll wait," said Honor in her rasping whisper. "I'll wait for him, no matter how long it is." The Englishwoman's eyes filled. "My dear!" she said. "Do you mind sitting with Richard a few moments? I find it steadies me to move about a bit."
A person in the service of the ambulance appeared, announcing that a bandage had slipped, and that one of the wounded men was to all appearance bleeding to death. The surgeon, submitting to destiny with the worst possible grace, dropped the charming Englishwoman's hand, and returned to his duties in the kitchen. The two ladies were left together in the room.
Shaw; you do not know an Englishwoman's love of fairness." "By Jove, do you mean it?" his eyes lighted up. "But, after all, you belong to the other camp," he added dejectedly. "I I wish to heavens, Miss Drake, you were not one of them!"
What a pity that the gentleman, who had very properly returned to beg the lady's pardon, had found his little bird flown in such poetic terms did the landlord in his own mind refer to Sylvia Bailey. The pretty Englishwoman's presence in the Villa du Lac had delighted M. Polperro's southern, sentimental mind; he felt her to be so decorative, as well as so lucrative, a guest for his beloved hotel.
"Stay," said Grace, "let it be Englishwoman's Employment. See, I can very easily alter the L into an E." Rachel would hardly have consented, but was forced to yield to her mother's entreaties. However, the diligent transformation at L's did not last long, for three days after a parcel was left at the Homestead containing five thousand printed copies of the appeal, with the E rightly inserted.
She did not seem to feel the Englishwoman's need of upholding the illusion of prematrimonial purity in both husband and wife, and though I recognized that she had a perfect right to this way of thinking, yet it annoyed me and I preferred Emmy's ingenuous or assumed blindness.
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