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"And have you succeeded?" said Mrs. Evelyn, with an expression of benevolent interest. "No, Ma'am my information had not been sufficient." "Very likely," said Mr. Evelyn. "There isn't one man in a hundred whose representations on such a matter are to be trusted at a distance." "On such a matter," repeated his wife, funnily; "you don't know what the matter was, Mr.

Chad looked unmistakeably during these instants well, as Strether put it to himself, all he was worth. Our friend had a sudden apprehension of what that would on certain sides be. He saw him in a flash as the young man marked out by women; and for a concentrated minute the dignity, the comparative austerity, as he funnily fancied it, of this character affected him almost with awe.

He rang his bell, but I didn't like to go up; and so he came down to ask Ellen for something. We had quite a nice little chat that we had. I told him it was my birthday, and he asked me and Ellen to go to Madame Tussaud's with him this afternoon." She laughed, a little self-consciously. "Of course, I could see he was 'centric, and then at first he spoke so funnily.

So that when Kitty arrived, a few minutes later, it was Penelope alone who received her. She was looking very blooming after her sojourn in the south of France. "I've left Barry behind at Cannes," she announced. "The little green tables have such a violent attraction for him, and he's just evolved a new and infallible system which he wants to try. Funnily enough, I had a craving for home.

"And have you succeeded?" said Mrs. Evelyn with an expression of benevolent interest. "No, ma'am my information had not been sufficient." "Very likely!" said Mr. Evelyn. "There isn't one man in a hundred whose representations on such a matter are to be trusted at a distance." "'On such a matter'!" repeated his wife funnily, "you don't know what the matter was, Mr.

"But I thought you had some relations there," said Graham. "Surely I saw an uncle with you who was English?" "Oh yes, Uncle Charles; but he never went to England either, and he died a long time ago. I don't know of any other relations." "So you never talk English now, I suppose? Do you remember telling me to speak English, because I spoke French so funnily?"

Her stature was rather short, all of it conversational, at the eyebrows, the shoulders, the finger-tips, the twisting shape; a ballerina's expressiveness; and her tongue dashed half sentences through and among these hieroglyphs, loosely and funnily candid.

Like or dislike, he does not care a jot; He wants your vote, but your affections not; Vet human hearts need sun as well as oats So cold a climate plays the deuce with votes." It must be admitted that in some of the small social arts which are so valuable an equipment for a political leader Lord John was funnily deficient.

"Oh, of course, nothing 'as 'appened." Madame Wachner dropped soothingly into English. "All I mean is that Madame Wolsky did not come to us yesterday evening. We stayed in on purpose, but, as English people say so funnily, she never turn up!" "But she was coming to tea as well as to supper!" "Yes, we waited for 'er a long time, and I 'ad got such a beautiful little supper!

An aide of this general funnily enough a good fighting man in actual service when I consulted him as to what my uniform for the campaign should be, laid special stress upon my purchasing a pair of black top boots for full dress, explaining that they were very effective on hotel piazzas and in parlors.

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