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"Lige," replied the Colonel, "you never do get over a prejudice. Yes, he's coming, just to oversee things. He seems to have mighty little pleasure, and he's got the best business head I ever did see. A Yankee," said Mr. Carvel, meditatively, as he put on his hat, "a Yankee, when he will work, works like all possessed.
As he looked closer into his wide, round face, seamed with small-pox, he fancied he saw even in its fatuous imbecility something of that haunting devotion he had seen on the refined features of the wife. He said more gently, "But one friend like you would seem to be enough." "I ain't what I uster be, Mr. Breeze," said the man meditatively, "and mebbe ye don't know who I am.
"Who, and what is he?" demanded Rachel, as she knelt before her victim, fixing those great prominent eyes, so like those of Red Riding Hood's grandmother, that Ermine involuntarily gave a backward impulse to her wheeled chair, as she answered the readiest thing that occurred to her, "He is brother to Lord Keith of Gowan-brae." "Oh," said Rachel, kneeling on meditatively, "that accounts for it.
And it rolled on and on, nor ceased until the curtain fell. Scaramouche stood meditatively smiling with tight lips. At the last moment he had caught a glimpse of M. de La Tour d'Azyr's face thrust farther forward than usual from the shadows of his box, and it was a face set in anger, with eyes on fire.
After breakfast they walked again into the garden, and while Paul smoked his cigarette, meditatively, Dorothy gathered flowers for the house. There was an earnestness in everything that she did, quite unusual in a girl of her age, and at times her manner was grave and sad, but strangely attractive, nevertheless.
Good-by! do come again to-morrow, and bring Dolly, won't you?" and she gave Genevieve one kiss and Eyebright another. "You're pretty big to play with dolls, I think. But then" meditatively "she's a pretty big doll too." Mrs. Waurigan was knitting a blue-yarn stocking. She could tell Eyebright nothing about the Oven. "I know it's not a great way off," she said. "But I've never been there.
We'd have been away by now if you and this lady had not come just when you did, Shotover." The gentleman addressed whistled very softly. "Would you, though?" he said, adding meditatively: "By George now, who'd have thought of Connie going the pace like that!" "Oh, Shotover, never tell, promise me you will never tell them!" the poor child cried again. "I know it was wicked, but "
Sanchia wouldn't make a blunder like that! Helen was frowning meditatively. She understood what Howard had in mind, and she, too, was perplexed. 'Do you know, she cried suddenly, 'I think we have failed to do papa justice! 'What do you mean? 'He never said outright that he had told her; he merely let us think that he had.
'How fast the plan has risen up, said Claude, 'I heard nothing of it when I was with you. 'Oh! it only came into my head last week, but I do not see what there is to wait for, second thoughts are never best. 'Oh! Claude, how delightful, said Lily. Claude stirred his tea meditatively, and did not speak. 'It is too much trouble, I perceive, said Lord Rotherwood; 'just as I told you.
He gazed fondly at the bluff-bowed, ungainly barge. "I'm goin' to bust a bottle of wine on her nose when she wets her feet. First rainy-weather hack we ever had in the family. Her name's Rouletta." "I hope she has a safe voyage." Royal eyed the speaker meditatively. "This trip has got my goat," he acknowledged.
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