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The two sisters smiled at him rather nervously, it is true, but still they kept their hands upon their brother's shoulders, as though they were two nurses soothing a patient and saying: "There, now ... The-e-e-ere ... Just be quiet and you'll feel better in a little while." "Yes, dear," whispered Cordelia, her mouth ever so close to his ear.
I quite appreciate the excellent watch kept on them by your men. On the other hand, this, for the public, does not amount to more than a confession of ignorance.” The Assistant Commissioner’s delivery was leisurely, as it were cautious.
'I am not rich enough to keep up the old place as it ought to be kept, and the debts are not half wiped off yet, so I don't mean to settle down at present. 'But a little economy and that sort of thing would soon clear the property. You had better settle down.
In summer it will be full of the loveliest white water-lilies, though now you can see nothing but green weeds. He had left her side and gone a few paces away, but kept on speaking. 'One strange thing I can tell you about them, cousin the roots of that whitest of flowers make a fine black dye! What apophthegm founded upon that, thinkest thou, my father would drop for Dr Bayly?
At least two out of every three had babies seated on these bustles, kept firm against their backs by the cloth tightly wrapped round the mother's body. But from the attitudes of the mothers the position was now reversed, the little black heads hanging downwards upon the dark brown backs of the women.
The attention, of course, must be kept closely on each movement of the hand; if it is not, you of course lose the value of the exercise. Exercise 6 Put the right hand on knee, both fingers and thumb closed, except the first finger, which points out in front of you. Then move the finger slowly from side to side, keeping the attention fixed upon the end of the finger.
The emotions of a midshipman are, however, proverbially of a very transient character, and I soon found myself prosecuting a most vigorous attack upon the comestibles, and, between mouthfuls, relating in pretty full detail all our adventures from the moment of the mutiny, excepting, of course, my love passages with Dona Inez, which I kept strictly to myself.
"I should like to know," Louis said, "where you spent the hour which passed between your leaving the Cafe Normandy and arriving at the Ritz." I hesitated for a moment. After all, I had no reason to keep my movements secret. It was better, indeed, to avoid complications so far as possible. "You shall know if you like, Louis," I said. "I kept my appointment with the young lady of the turquoises."
But there was Nat, the second in age, whose motor-horn had driven her and Nick out to the hill-side on their fatal day at the Fulmers' and there were the twins, Jack and Peggy, of whom she had kept memories almost equally disquieting.
If I kept open it would cost me over five hundred a week to run. Have I five hundred dollars a week to lose?" "But I tell you it won't last!" she cried, and again the baffled, driven expression swept over her expressive face. "Can't you see this is only a panic and keep going somehow? Can't you see what it means to the tenements? Hundreds of thousands are out of work!
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