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I have laid out everything nicely for you your new gaiters, and your D. C. L. coat with the pretty buttons and cord." "How can I leave you, my dear? And they do not ask you!" The voice tried for playfulness, but the eyes had a disturbed look. "Me? Oh! they never ask me to dinner-you know that. Tea and formal visits are enough for Lady Belward, and almost too much for me.
'To-day has been a day of trial, said Henrietta, as she was about to bid Lord Montfort farewell. 'What do you think of affairs? I saw you speaking to Katherine. What do you think? 'I think Ferdinand Armine is a formidable rival. Do you know, I am rather jealous? 'Digby! can you be ungenerous? 'My sweet Henrietta, pardon my levity. I spoke in the merest playfulness.
If you meet any one who looks like me, and talks like me, call him 'Ruth, and tell him I'm waitin' for him yer." Miss Phemia, the last to go, standing on the verge of the declivity, here remarked, with a dangerous smile, that, if she met any one who bore that resemblance, she might be tempted to keep him with her, a playfulness that brought the ready color to Rand's cheek.
Her eye was as bright as ever, but it was steady, composed, and resolved; her lips were set and compressed, and there was no playfulness round her mouth.
Pickwick, and grasping the reins, prepared to remount. Now whether the tall horse, in the natural playfulness of his disposition, was desirous of having a little innocent recreation with Mr.
Dalibard's lip curled at the boy's coxcombry, though such tastes he himself had fostered, according to his ruling principles, that to govern, you must find a foible, or instil it; but the sneer changed into a smile. "Are you satisfied with yourself, joli garcon?" he said, with saturnine playfulness.
Whether this consists in a peculiar gravity in the humorous attitude towards the subject, rather than playfulness, or in a tendency to exaggerated statement, or in a broad humanitarian standpoint, or in a certain flavor given by a blending of all these, it is very difficult to decide. Probably the peculiar standpoint is the distinguishing note, and American humor is a product of democracy.
Foremost among these sticklers for old ideas was the Countess de Noailles, her principal "lady of honor," whose uneasiness on the subject speedily became so notorious as to give rise to numerous court squibs and satirical odes, the authors of which seemed glad to compliment the dauphin and to vex her ladyship at the same time, but who could not be deterred by these effusions from lecturing Marie Antoinette on her disregard of her rank, and on the danger of making herself too familiar, till she provoked the young princess into giving her the nickname of Madame Etiquette; and, no doubt, in her childish playfulness, to utter many a speech and do many an act whose principle object was to excite the astonishment or provoke the frowns of the too prim lady of honor.
Bob Chater laughed. "Well, now you see that I did. I've been looking forward to this all day." Plainly she was perturbed. She said: "Mr. Chater, I really would rather you did not, if you don't mind." "Well, but I do mind, d'you see? I mind very much indeed. It would be the bitterest disappointment." His playfulness sat ill upon him.
At last, in a particularly bright access of playfulness, he got hold of a large flint, and nearly put Phil's eye out with it, Phil dodged it, and it flew straight at Duprez, splitting open his cheek in rather an unbecoming fashion Don't look so horrified, Miss Gueldmar, it is really nothing!" "Oh, but indeed it is something!" she said, with true womanly anxiety in her voice. "Poor fellow!
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