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He laughed, only half comprehending, gauche in the expression of his deep-hearted satisfaction. 'One thousand square miles, two thirds of it fair grazing country in good seasons, and will be first-rate when I've worked out my artesian bore system. Plenty of space there for a woman to swing her petticoats, in your riding skirt it'll have to be. 'There! You see! she cried.
Mary was rather long of limb, even a little GAUCHE in an attractive, unself-conscious sort of way. But something fine and high, something fresh and young and earnest about her, made its instant appeal to the man beside her. "Isn't she just the biggest thing!" Mamma said finally, with a little affectionate slap for Mary's hand. "Makes me feel so old, having a great, big girl of twenty-three!"
Once at the great hall his mother put the gauche little Peg at her ease, introduced her to the most charming of partners, and saw that everything was done to minister, to her enjoyment. It was a wonderful night for Peg. She danced every dance: she had the supper one with Jerry: she laughed and sang and romped and was the centre of all the attention.
It took little time to discover that no one had seen her that morning. It was evident she had been forgotten left to die tied to the brass rail inside an abandoned bakery, for it was there I had fastened her on arriving the night before. Pedaling ahead till I reached Leon who led the procession "Keep straight on this road. If it should fork, take the direction of the La Ferte Gauche.
You don't know how clever and ambitious he is. He told me " But Mrs. Yorke had no mind to let Alice dwell on what he had told her. He was too good an advocate. "Stuff! I don't care what he told you! Alice, he is a perfectly unknown and untrained young creature. All young men talk that way. He is perfectly gauche and boorish in his manner "
"I expect I ought to, and I expect it is something dreadful; but if I am happier so, why can't I go on being gauche?" "Father said you were very shy, but he didn't think you were the other thing gauche." "Did he?" cried poor Kitty, brightening; but her face soon fell again.
"If she spies us she will be finding her way up here; there's no piece of effrontery of which that class is not capable," he thought, wondering next who the vulgar-looking girl and gauche youth were who were with her.
Voyage dans la ci-devant Belgique, et sur la Rive Gauche du Rhin. Par Briton, et Brun père et fils. Paris, 1802. 2 vols. 8vo. Commerce, manufactures, arts, manners, and mineralogy, enter into these volumes. Sometimes, however, rather in a desultory and superficial style.
Soon a message came that Mr. Tavernake was to go up. He ascended in the lift and knocked at the door of her suite. Her maid opened it grudgingly. She scarcely took the pains to conceal her disapproval of this young man so ordinary, so gauche. Why Madame should waste her time upon such a one, she could not imagine! "Mrs. Gardner will see you directly," she told him.
As a place of residence Lenox would compare very favourably with say Homburg, and for companionship you forget my husband. I never met the woman yet who did not prefer the company of one man, if only it were the right one, to the cosmopolitan throng we call society." "It sounds idyllic, but very gauche," Lady Carey remarked drily. "In effect it is rather a blow on the cheek for you, Prince.
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