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Dorry's a dear, and you are another, and I'm ever so glad he's coming; but really, it's not in human nature not to laugh at the one solemn person in a frivolous family like ours, now is it?" "See that you behave yourself, then, and I'll not scold you any more," replied Clover, magisterially, and ignoring the last question.
"I believe you're both glad I'm going. It's a beastly shame. Why must I always be odd man out?" "Look here, Infant, don't adopt that tone, please," said Cupid magisterially. "Or you'll make us glad in earnest. People who are always up in arms about things are the greatest bores in the world."
Elisha, who had grown very stout, sat comfortably on a half-barrel of sugar inside the counter, sucking a stick of peppermint candy, unmoved by anything, even the entrance of his old enemy, Jerome. As Cyrus Robinson was making up his mind to say something, Doctor Seth Prescott spoke, coldly and magisterially, without moving a muscle in his face, which was like a fine pale mask. "May I ask Mr.
It had simply been asked whether he still continued of the same mind; on replying yes, something was put down upon a piece of paper, and he was waved outside. All being summoned in rotation, my own turn came at last. Within, Wilson and his two friends were seated magisterially at a table an inkstand, a pen, and a sheet of paper lending quite a business-like air to the apartment.
For a few moments she listened to Fraülein Adelmann's veiled unmanageable contralto; then she turned magisterially to Robert standing behind her. 'The art of singing has gone out. she declared, 'since the Germans have been allowed to meddle in it. By the way, Mr. Elsmere, how do you manage to be here? Are you taking a holiday? Robert looked at her with a start.
"I saw in the Paris Chronicle, last night," said Miss Triscoe, "that people are kept on the docks now for hours, and ladies cry at the way their things are tumbled over by the inspectors." "It's shocking," said Mrs. March, magisterially. "It seems to be a return to the scenes of feudal times," her husband resumed. "But I'm glad the travellers make no resistance.
Especially when a no small professor, whose name I wittingly conceal lest those choughs should chatter at me that Greek proverb I have so often mentioned, "an ass at a harp," discoursing magisterially and theologically on this text, "I speak as a fool, I am more," drew a new thesis; and, which without the height of logic he could never have done, made this new subdivision for I'll give you his own words, not only in form but matter also "I speak like a fool," that is, if you look upon me as a fool for comparing myself with those false apostles, I shall seem yet a greater fool by esteeming myself before them; though the same person a little after, as forgetting himself, runs off to another matter.
"Tiens! are you drawing up a parliamentary law?" "Yes," replied la Peyrade, "the law of the vanquished." Soon after this, the porter opened the door and introduced Madame Lambert, whom he had found at home, and who arrived looking rather frightened. "You are Madame Lambert?" asked Thuillier, magisterially. "Yes, monsieur," said the woman, in an anxious voice.
What is this? What is the meaning of all this?" demanded his Worship, magisterially, as, having drawn rein, he fumbled in his tail pocket, drew forth a pair of horn spectacles, adjusted them on his nose, and glared round upon the throng. "That, sir," answered my father, stepping forward, "is what we are waiting to learn." "Sir John Constantine?" The Mayor bowed from his saddle.
"It's quite dead," said the mate reassuringly. "I've never seen a live beetle on this ship." "I want to go home," said the girl. "You've no business to make me come when I don't want to." "You should behave yourself then," said her father magisterially. "What about sheets, Jack; and pillers?" The mate sat on the table, and, grasping his chin, pondered.
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