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"You don't know grandma!" Milly replied oracularly, feeling that any attempt to explain would be useless. And, it may be added, Milly did not know her grandmother, either. She could no more appreciate the steady, stern self-denial that had gone to the gathering of that three thousand dollars than she could the nature of a person who would nag for twenty years the girl she meant to endow.
The countess bridled and looked at her daughter with obvious maternal meaning, as one who was saying, "There you bungled your prince, but I have procured you a baron." "The abuse of hospitality is the last refuge of the needy," continued De Chauxville oracularly. "But my temptation is strong; shall I yield to it, mademoiselle?" Catrina smiled unwillingly.
'You have heard, perhaps, said Sir Joseph, oracularly, 'certain remarks into which I have been led respecting the solemn period of time at which we have arrived, and the duty imposed upon us of settling our affairs, and being prepared. You have observed that I don't shelter myself behind my superior standing in society, but that Mr.
So the pretty oval, containing the fair golden hair and large eyes, the pale, unfathomable sphinx, remounted to its nail, and the funeste and beautiful child seemed to smile down oracularly on our conjectures. 'So is the face in the large portrait very singular more, I think, than that handsomer too.
"Do you think Cecil's man is the brother?" asked Mac. "You mean interesting," I continued. "Well," said Mac, "interesting if you like. That don't make it any the less strange. Is Cecil's man ?" "The really strange part of this man's story," I declared, oracularly, "is the fact that he is telling it; mark that! And a stranger thing still is the way he is telling it!"
The critic, too, who dictates thus oracularly to the world, is perhaps some dingy, ill-favored, ill-mannered varlet, who, were he to speak by word of mouth, would be disregarded, if not scoffed at; but such is the magic of types; such the mystic operation of anonymous writing; such the potential effect of the pronoun we, that his crude decisions, fulminated through the press, become circulated far and wide, control the opinions of the world, and give or destroy reputation.
This solemn old bird sat apart from all the others, nodding its head oracularly in the sunlight, and blinking now and again with its white eyelids in a curious senile fashion. The Frenchman turned to Felix with an air of profound mystery.
So likely is this storm to come to us in mid-August that the Old Farmer's Almanack, less oracularly and more bluntly by far than in its usual weather predictions, bids us look for it each year.
"Well, good advice is not always a present, but I should like mine to be taken as such, monsieur," he said a little oracularly. "Oh, advice to give me advice that's why you've brought me in here, when I've so much to do I can't breathe! Time is money with me, old 'un." "Mine is advice which may be money in your pocket, monsieur," remarked the Clerk of the Court with meaning.
"But how are we goin' to get the money to pay up for the sports, the fireworks, and things?" "Them that hires fiddlers and dances all day and night must expect to pay said fiddlers," announced the Cap'n, oracularly. "I reckon you'll have to pass the hat for the fiddlers." "If that's the case," called the committeeman, heart-brokenly, "won't you put your name down for a little?"
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