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Updated: July 3, 2025
"I sometimes think it is not right to spend so much time and money for what is a mere gratification to the eye." Mrs Grove was bent on being agreeable, to all present, and she thought "the economical dodge" was as good as any, considering her audience. "There is something in that," said Mr Snow, meditatively; "but a place like this ought to be a great deal more than that, I think." "Oh!
This he retained meditatively for a time, and blew out through his pursed lips slowly and caressingly. Then his face seemed to soften as he leaned back, and a soft blur to film his eyes. He sighed heavily, happily, with immeasurable content, and then said suddenly: "God! But that tastes good!" Van Brunt nodded sympathetically. "Five years, you say?" "Five years." The man sighed again.
Tall and slim, in the black and white of his evening clothes, Colonel Carteret leaned his shoulder against an iron pillar of the verandah of the Hôtel de la Plage, and smoked, looking meditatively down into the moonlit garden.
He chose practically to disinherit me in your favor; and a very good thing it's been for me too. I should never have taken to Art if I had been a landed proprietor." "I don't understand it," said Wyvis, meditatively. "One would have expected him to be jealous of his wife's family and then you're a much better fellow than I am."
Pierre had watched this scene intently, his chin in his hands, his elbows on his knees. Presently he drew himself up, ran a finger meditatively along his lip, and said to himself: "It is perfect. She is carved from the core of nature. But this thing has danger for her... 'bien!... ah!" A change in the scene before him caused this last expression of surprise.
These long illnesses, you know, they always leave a mark on a man." "Nonsense! He's strong as an ox," insisted Sister Soulsby. "You mark my word, he'll thrive in Seattle like a green bay-tree." "Seattle!" echoed Alice, meditatively. "It sounds like the other end of the world, doesn't it?"
"Um m not exactly." Mr. Williams ran a hand meditatively over the ragged scar on his scalp, as if from force of habit. "Wellar? I never heard of him." "He may have travelled under another name. Ever hear of a fellow called Locke?" The consul's moist lips drew together, his red eyes gleamed watchfully. "Maybe I have, and maybe I haven't," said he. "Why do you want him?" "I heard he was here.
The old delicate quality of the features was not so marked, though there was nothing material in the look, and the head had not a sordid line, while the hand that he now and again raised, brushing his forehead meditatively, had gained much in strength and force. Yet there was something something different, that brought a slight cloud into her eyes.
At least, he's made his mother promise that she won't sell." "A boy's best friend is his mother," said Archie approvingly. "I had a sort of idea all along " "So father's in despair." Archie drew at his cigarette meditatively.
You gan vear dat on St. Batrick's day." And he picked out one of bright green that would have made Shorty's throat seem in wild revolt against his hair. "Well, I don't know," said Shorty meditatively, pulling over the lot. Then a thought struck him. Taking out the bit of Maria's dress, he said: "Give me something as near as possible the color of that."
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