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Cherry left her place beside her father, with a final kiss, and took her own chair, all dimples, flushes, smiles, and shy confidence. "And what are your plans?" Anne asked maternally, as she poured tea. Her uncle, who had been silent during the excitement, mildly interposed: "I think we needn't go too fast, young people!
'Miss Toft, let me introduce you to Madame Lopez. He turned to the newcomer. 'Keep her calm for me, bright star, will you? Then Otto went, and Clarice was left alone with the world-famous operatic soprano, who was advertised to sing that night the Shadow Song from 'Dinorah. 'Where did he pick you up, my dear? the decayed diva inquired maternally. Clarice briefly explained.
"Well, wouldn't you rather stay up on the porch with the girls?" "If you men want to swear at your strokes, I decline to be a party to it!" Rachael said maternally. "I know. But, darling, it does rather affect our game," Warren said uncertainly; "that is, you don't play, you see! And it only gets you hot and mussy, and I love my wife to be waiting when we come up.
For so foreign did the mother make herself to him, that the appearance of the child, their own child, here between them, was next to miraculous; and the mother, who might well have been the most astonished, had transparently not an idea beyond the verified palpable lump of young life she lifted in her arms out of the arms of Madge, maternally at home with its presence on earth.
"The very best chum in the world, Daddy, and so we have sworn never to be separated not even for money, business, or love!" cried the happy girl, maternally patting Polly on the head as she spoke.
But one felt it was only for form's sake, and that he himself no longer meant what he said. Madame Desvarennes received this plaintive remonstrance with a calm smile, and answered, maternally, as to a child: "There, there, don't be frightened." Then she would set to work again, and direct with irresistible vigor the army of clerks who peopled her counting-houses.
In the intervals of military preparation we can have a gay time not too gay, of course, Miss Goold. I shall keep Mr. Conneally out of serious mischief. When we have a little spare cash we may as well enjoy ourselves. We shan't want to carry money about with us in the Transvaal. We mean to live at the expense of the English out there. Augusta Goold smiled almost maternally at Hyacinth.
"That doesn't brand her, does it?" he asked. Still smiling maternally at him, Mrs. Trent continued: "She left my service when she ran away with Mr. Walter Brooke you know him, I think? Disgraceful though it was, I must say this of him, that he never made any concealment of the fact that he was a married man. She did it with her eyes open."
I should be so pleased, if it would not trouble you. There's a steep place or two but I think there's no danger." "I shall not be afraid." She smiled so graciously, and, as she fully believed, maternally, that he looked at her the second time.
Klopton herself saw me served, my bread buttered and cut in tidbits, my meat ready for my fork. She hovered around me maternally, obviously trying to cheer me. "The paper says still warmer," she ventured. "The thermometer is ninety-two now." "And this coffee is two hundred and fifty," I said, putting down my cup. "Where is Euphemia? I haven't seen her around, or heard a dish smash all day."
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