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Meanwhile, Lord Findon though in Fenwick's studio he always behaved himself with a certain jauntiness, as a man should who has discovered a genius was a little discontented. 'It's a fine thing, Eugénie, he was saying to her, as he helped her put on her furs, 'but I'm not altogether satisfied. It wants animation. It's too too 'Too sad? she asked, quietly. 'Too grave, my dear too grave.
He picked up his hat and stick, nodded knowingly to Garnett, and walked toward the door with an air of creaking jauntiness. But on the threshold Mrs. Newell waylaid him. "Don't go I must speak to you," she said, following him into the antechamber; and Garnett remembered the dress-maker who was not to be dislodged from her bedroom. In a moment Mrs.
When the seamen traders foregathered noisily round a glittering cluster of bottles and glasses on a lighted verandah, old Jorgenson would emerge up the stairs as if from a dark sea, and, stepping up with a kind of tottering jauntiness, would help himself in the first tumbler to hand. "I drink to you all. No no chair." He would stand silent over the talking group.
No fear! I'll have it up town. Lucas'll be able to put me up to some new digs. He always knows about that sort of thing. Then I'll drive down and remove all my worldly in a four-wheeler." He spoke with jauntiness, in his role of male who is easily equal to any situation. But she said in a low, tenderly commiserating voice: "It's a shame!" "Not a bit!" he replied.
The style of the whole article is rich, fluent, picturesque, with light touches of humor here and there, and perhaps a trace or two of youthful jauntiness, not quite as yet outgrown.
Now and then I can trace in the turn of a phrase, in the twinkle of an epithet, a faint reminiscence of a certain satirical levity, airiness, jauntiness, if I may hint such a word, which is just enough to remind me of those perilous shallows of his early time through which his richly freighted argosy had passed with such wonderful escape from their dangers and such very slight marks of injury.
In spite of his attempt to imitate the Governor's jauntiness Archie felt again, as so often since he left Bailey Harbor, the unreality of the events through which he had been projected with his singular companion, who had drawn him so far out of his orbit that it was hard to believe that he would ever slip into it again.
He didn't even believe the lady would start a suit not with the facts of her shame known far and wide. He was jaunty and defiant about this, and come right out of hiding and agreed to work for me again, Scott Humphrey having sent his wife and children on a visit to Grandma Humphrey. But, lands. He didn't earn his salt. Friends and well-wishers took the jauntiness all out of him in no time.
As a final step in her preparation she rubbed her cheeks violently with a rough crash towel, the resulting brilliant complexion successfully obliterating all traces of weariness, the flotsam and jetsam of anxious days and haunted nights. And then with a jauntiness remarkable under the circumstances, Persis departed, resolved by fair means or foul to distract the thoughts of Mrs.
She has been a beauty when young, had black eyes and high complexion, a good figure, rather inclined to embonpoint, and a certain springiness in her walk, and a jauntiness in her air, that are ever sure attractions to a sub in a marching regiment.
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