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There he was informed by the very affable clerk, who assisted him to choose his cabin, that the vessel was unusually empty, and that, up to the present time, berths had been taken for only five ladies, and two of them Jewesses. "However," the clerk added, by way of consolation, "this one," pointing to Mrs. Carr's name on the list, "is as good as a cargo," and he whistled expressively.
The old Critic's countenance was expressively glum and ironical, he, however, was compelled, like all the other paid servants of the household, to make a low and respectful obeisance as soon as he found himself in Sah-luma's presence, an act of homage which, he performed awkwardly, and with evident ill-will.
"Want him to marry her!" repeated Polly, expressively. "No. But I am satisfied that he should marry her. So long as he is really happy, and his wife is worthy of him and she is worthy of him " A light dawned upon me, and I interrupted her. "Why, Polly, it is Leo that you care for!"
She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs. Ferrars's resolution that both her sons should marry well, and of the danger attending any young woman who attempted to draw him in, that Mrs. Dashwood could neither pretend to be unconscious, nor endeavor to be calm.
Pickwick happened to be looking another way at the moment, so her Ladyship nodded her head towards him, and frowned expressively. 'My friend Mr. Pickwick, my Lady, will be most happy, I am sure, remarkably so, said the M.C., taking the hint. 'Mr. Pickwick, Lady Snuphanuph Mrs. Colonel Wugsby Miss Bolo. Mr. Pickwick bowed to each of the ladies, and, finding escape impossible, cut. Mr.
Cooke here is a gentleman, every inch of him, and so be you, Mr. Crocker. But I'm just after taking a look at the hole in the bottom of the boat. 'Ye have yer bunks in queer places, Mr. Cooke, says I. It's not for me to be doubting a gentleman's word, sir, but I'm thinking me man is over the hills and far away, and that's true for ye." Mr. Cooke winked expressively.
Madame Wachner was in the act of pouring the boiling water into her china teapot. "Ah, well," she said, bending over it, "we shall never know that. Your friend was a strange person, what I call a solitaire. She did not like gambling when there were people whom she knew in the Baccarat Room with her. As to what she is doing now " she shrugged her shoulders, expressively.
I have been reposing under the trees, and I was, or so I imagine, in a brief slumber, when some dulcet warblings as of a nightingale awoke me" here, stooping to the ground for his hat, he secured it, and waved it expressively "and I have, I fear, created some dismay in the mind of the interesting young person who, if I mistake not, is a friend of Miss Vancourt?"
"It's either this," and she rolled her eyes expressively about the room, "or it's I don't know what!" "Perhaps we're too many," Peter hazarded to her daughter. "But really you'll find, after you fairly begin, that you'll do better with four or five."
"I had an idea from your telegram, Gallito, that Hughie was coming with you. Sha'n't I go?" For answer Gallito pushed forward a chair and threw another log upon the fire. "My daughter is tired," he said. "She will soon retire; but when a man has been from home for a fortnight, and in the desert!" he raised his brows expressively, "Pah!
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