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When tired of this he would scrape execrably on a violin. He had many little puppet soldiers, whom, hour after hour, he would marshal on the floor in mimic war. He would dress his own servants and the maids of Catharine in masks, and set them dancing, while he would dance with them, playing at the same time on the fiddle.
He nodded to Philip when he was introduced to him, and went on with the game. Philip's knowledge of the language was small, but he knew enough to tell that Cronshaw, although he had lived in Paris for several years, spoke French execrably. At last he leaned back with a smile of triumph. "Je vous ai battu," he said, with an abominable accent. "Garcong!" He called the waiter and turned to Philip.
As it happened, Henri had been mastered by a violent passion for Eve's blond beauty, which was then dazzling. He wished to marry her, and his father, who knew him, consented, in reality greatly amused to think that Justus was making an execrably bad stroke of business.
A few of the streets have been Europeanised in all except the paving, which is everywhere execrably Asiatic to suit the tastes of those who have adopted European culture, but the great majority of them still retain much of their ancient character and primitive irregularity.
They were all done execrably, something Fitzgerald hadn't noticed before. "How much are these apiece?" "Er twenty-five cents, ma'am," he stammered. As a matter of fact he hadn't any idea what the current price list was. "You seem very well dressed," doubtfully; "and you do not look hungry." "I am doing this for charity's sake," finding his wits. The policeman hovered near, scowling.
"I wonder," thought I to myself, "what you would have answered if I had said that you speak English execrably." By her own account she could read both Welsh and English. She walked by my side to the turn, and then up the left-hand road, which she said was the way to Llan Rhyadr. Coming to a cottage she bade me good-night and went in.
If the roads had been even tolerably good, one of the wagons might have carried the load, perhaps, but the roads were execrably bad and Barbara was not minded to take any risks. When the loading was done, it was nearly nightfall, but the eager girl insisted upon starting immediately, to the profound disgust of her drivers.
She talked more rapidly as she went on, as one talks of that over which they have brooded long, and which lies near their hearts. Waldo watched her intently. "They say women have one great and noble work left them, and they do it ill. That is true; they do it execrably. It is the work that demands the broadest culture, and they have not even the narrowest.
On a similar occasion the same good man writes to her with that execrably bad taste for which he was even more conspicuous than Whitefield: 'Jesus has been whispering to me of late that I cannot keep myself nor the flock committed to me; but has not hinted a word as yet that I do wrong in keeping to my fold.
Exhausted with fatigue, they reposed in that city for a day, and on the 1st April proceeded, partly by the river Loire and partly by the road, as far as Tours. Here they were visited by nobody, said Barneveld, but fiddlers and drummers, and were execrably lodged.
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