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"Will you tell her, please, that that I've put on THIS," she said, just touching the blue bow at her throat. Then, at Miss Polly's ill-concealed look of surprise, she added: "The little girl has been trying for so long to make me wear some color, that I thought she'd be glad to know I'd begun. She said that Freddy would be so glad to see it, if I would. You know Freddy's ALL I have now.
"Sir," he replied with some embarrassment, "I have to acquaint you with some important matters. My honour, yours, the honour of our house, are involved. I intended postponing this conversation till to-morrow, not desiring to trouble you on the evening of your return. However, as you wish me to explain, I will do so." The count listened with ill-concealed anxiety.
He started at once, accompanied by General Sir Frederic Adams, and landed at Parga by the light of the funeral pyre. He was received with ill-concealed indignation, and with assurances that the sacrifice would be at once consummated unless Ali's troops were held back.
In 1856, within a dozen years from the time of the systematization of the game, the number of clubs in the metropolitan district and the enthusiasm attending their matches began to attract particular attention. The fact became apparent that it was surely superseding the English game of cricket, and the adherents of the latter game looked with ill-concealed jealousy on the rising upstart.
So the struggle went on within the ministry as well as without it; but the opponents of royal prejudice were heavily handicapped; for the king, though stupid in general, had some political skill and much authority. His ill-concealed personal hostility to his "enemy," as he called Shelburne, threatened like the little cloud in the colonial horizon.
The Judge has been awaiting you." "Has he?" inquired Stephen, with ill-concealed anxiety. The big young German patted him on the shoulder. Suddenly a voice roared from out the open transom of the private office, like a cyclone through a gap. "Mr. Richter!" "Sir!" "Who is that?" "Mr. Brice, sir." "Then why in thunder doesn't he come in?" Mr. Richter opened the private door, and in Stephen walked.
At first he tried to parry their questions, but his own ill-concealed distress only increased their alarm and rendered them the more persistent. "There is something serious ailing mamma," he said at length, "but Cousin Arthur hopes soon to be able to relieve her. The cure is somewhat doubtful, however, and that is what so distresses grandpa, grandma, and me.
Somehow throughout the trial he had seemed to me to be ill at ease and sick of his job, a mere puppet in the mummery going on about us; yet we had no choice but to let him continue his ill-concealed plea for mercy and his wretched rhetoric, until the judge stopped him and said that his time was up.
"It's swelled more than it was yesterday," she said, with ill-concealed satisfaction. "It feels better," said the captain. "That's 'cos it's goin' dead," said the damsel; "then it'll go black all up your leg, and then you'll 'ave to 'ave it orf." Flower grinned comfortably.
The pilgrim, who was enveloped in a tattered coat, sprinkled with cockle-shells, who wore his beard, and was altogether a disgusting picture of human depravity, rendered still more revolting by an ill-concealed hypocrisy, laughed openly and recklessly at the remark. "Thou art a follower of Calvin, master," he replied, "or thou would'st not have said this. My own failings give me little trouble.
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