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To me it seems, Mabel, that whenever a thing is really grand and potent, it has a quiet majesty about it, altogether unlike the frothy and flustering manner of smaller matters, and so it was with them rapids. The canoe was no sooner fairly in them, than down it went, as it might be, as one sails through the air on the 'arth, and no skill of the young Delaware could resist the stream.
His heart answered, Now or never. What then to fear? The thought whirled him forward. The grass felt goodly beneath his feet. The sun, still pale in mist, blessed him. A fresh wind flowed about him, flustering hair and shirt. His heart eased. After all his rear was fairly safe, and his flank unthreatened. As to his front well, he had his eyes and his dirk.
"The deuce I shall," said the squire, and accepted maliciously. Where the squire dined, he drank, defying ladies and the new-fangled subserviency to those flustering teabodies. This was understood; so, when the Claret and Port had made a few rounds, Major Waring was permitted to follow Mrs. Lovell, and the squire and his brother settled to conversation; beginning upon gout.
Gambling he held in aversion; and it was said that he never passed White's, then the favourite haunt of noble sharpers and dupes, without an exclamation of anger. His practice of flustering himself daily with claret was hardly considered as a fault by his contemporaries.
Now of all the cosmic problems yet unsolved, not cancer nor the future of poverty are the flustering questions, but these twain: Which is worse, not to wear evening clothes at a party at which you find every one else dressed, or to come in evening clothes to a house where, it proves, they are never worn?
There is always a flustering breeze in the air and a perturbation generally through the county when they come or go, and I think I perceived the effects about four in the afternoon. They won't come, I dare say. 'Why not? 'They never do. They have probably a house full of guests, and they know that my accommodation is limited.
This ceremony being performed amidst much tittering and flustering, accompanied by many knowing looks and some expressed wishes among the swains, who hoped that their turn might come next, Dame Tetlow arose, and the squire seizing her hand, they began to whisk round in a sort of jig, singing merrily as they danced "Prinkum prankum is a fine dance, And we shall go dance it once again!
Those horses are rested. They can go all night if they must." "I have Grandmother Loekermann's wedding-ring of course you didn't fetch one. Trust a man to forget anything of importance." His grasp of her hand during the ride did not relax. The New Argonauts Mrs. van Geist came flustering out to the carriage. "You and Briggs may get out here, Jarvis.
"I suppose it was lost in the mail, and I very stupidly didn't notice the gap in the numbers." "Stupid isn't the word I'd use," said I, with a laugh that wasn't of the kind that cheers. And I rang off and asked for the state capitol on the "long distance." Before I got my connection Saxe, whose office was only two blocks away, came flustering in. "The boy has been discharged, Mr.
It evidently declined, without any symptom which could lead us to suspect his disease, unless indeed his brightened eyes, animated look, and flustering cheeks, made us dread consumption; but he was without pain or fear. He betook himself to books with ardour, and reposed from study in the society he best loved, that of his sister and myself.
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