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I suppose you seldom meet in society now, the people you used to be familiar with twelve or fifteen years ago?" Mrs. O. "Oh, no-hardly ever." Mr. O'Riley kept his first rum-mill and protected his customers from the law in those days, and this turn of the conversation was rather uncomfortable to madame than otherwise. Hon. Mrs. Higgins "Is Francois' health good now, Mrs. Oreille?" Mrs.
And then the scene began again, and after the storm had raged for an hour, he, at last, was enabled to explain himself. He declared that he could not understand it at all, and that it could only proceed from malice or from vengeance. A ring at the bell saved him; it was a friend whom they were expecting for dinner. Mme. Oreille submitted the case to him.
Laura concluded, after reflection, to let circumstances determine the course it might be best for her to pursue as regarded the several aristocracies. Now it might occur to the reader that perhaps Laura had been somewhat rudely suggestive in her remarks to Mrs. Oreille when the subject of corals was under discussion, but it did not occur to Laura herself.
She mended it with a piece of silk cut out of the old umbrella, which was of a different color, and the next day Oreille went off very humbly with the mended article in his hand. He put it into a cupboard, and thought no more about it than one thinks of some unpleasant recollection.
On hearing this advice the little woman calmed down immediately, and then, after a moment's reflection, she said to her husband: "To-morrow, before going to your office, you will go to the Maternelle Assurance Company, show them the state your umbrella is in, and make them pay for the damage." M. Oreille fairly jumped, he was so startled at the proposal. "I would not do it for my life!
Once in the saddle, with the comfortable weight of a cartridge-belt around each man's middle, we experienced a revulsion of feeling. Primed for trouble if we could jump it out of the brush, we rode the bottom for half an hour. But our men were gone. At least, we could not locate them. So we took to the upland again and loped toward Pend d' Oreille.
Oreille was very angry, and peremptorily told his wife to get him a new one, a good silk one, for twenty francs, and to bring him the bill, so that he might see that it was all right. She bought him one for eighteen francs, and said, getting red with anger as she gave it to her husband: "This will last you for five years at least."
Oreille was very angry, and peremptorily told his wife to get him a new one, a good silk one, for twenty francs, and to bring him the bill, so that he might see that it was all right. She bought him one for eighteen francs, and said, getting red with anger as she gave it to her husband: "This will last you for five years at least."
Miss Emmeline "Oh, you needn't ruffle your feathers so: I was only joking. He don't mean anything by coming to, the house every evening only comes to see mother. Miss G. prettily confused "Emmeline, how can you!" Mrs. G. "Let your sister alone, Emmeline. I never saw such a tease!" Mrs. Oreille "What lovely corals you have, Miss Hawkins! Just look at them, Bridget, dear.
I was digesting this along with the remains of the troopers' dinner, when Goodell and his satellites popped over the hill that looked down on Pend d' Oreille, and, a few minutes later, came riding nonchalantly up to the mess-house. "Well, you beat us in," Goodell greeted airily. "Did you find a short cut?" "Sure thing," I responded, with what irony I could command.
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