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She had the most lovely jewellery, and was very fond of wearing it of an evening, more than most people do when they are staying with relations and there's no company. She never spoke much except to say, 'Yes, Dick dear, and 'No, Dick dear, when they spoke to each other; but they were as fond of each other as pigeons on a roof, and always very pleasant-spoken and nice to wait on.
So she walked beside Tom, and talked to him, and asked him where he lived, and what he knew, and all about himself, till Tom thought he had never met such a pleasant-spoken woman. And she asked him, at last, whether he said his prayers! and seemed sad when he told her that he knew no prayers to say. Then he asked her where she lived, and she said far away by the sea.
Something, however, in the cut of his lips something close and firm suggested an admixture of Anglo-Saxon blood. The man looked as if he might have had an English mother. It was perhaps this formation of the mouth that had led those pleasant-spoken persons to name to his relatives their conviction that Conyngham had a future before him. The best liars are those who base their fancy upon fact.
What a pleasant-spoken lady she is! We met her husband just as we were driving into town." Hart said he come pretty near saying back to her, "The hell you did!" Hart talked that careless way, sometimes but he said he pulled up before it got out, and all he did say was, "Oh!" "She must be at the head of the Dorcas Society that Mr.
It seemed to me it was the cue was doing it. Minus Twenty was even more astonished. I heard him as I passed: "Who handicapped this man?" he asked. "I did," said the pleasant-spoken youngster. "Oh," said Minus Twenty "friend of yours, I presume?" There are evenings that seem to belong to you. We finished that two hundred and fifty under the three-quarters of an hour.
Tell me if the Sor Teresa is within?" "The Sor Teresa is at Pampeluna, and the Mother Superior is here in the school herself. The Sor Teresa is only Sister Superior, you must know, and is therefore subordinate to the Mother Superior." Sarrion was a pleasant-spoken man, and a man of the world.
There is a little settlement about Egger's, and the first half mile of our way we had the company of the schoolmistress, a modest, pleasant-spoken girl. Neither she nor any other people we encountered had any dialect or local peculiarity of speech. Indeed, those we encountered that morning had nothing in manner or accent to distinguish them.
He'd sit up, I guess, if he knew the nice pleasant-spoken parson he's been blabbing to was Sniff of the detective office. My eye it's all so easy, there's not much credit about the business after all. But it's pounds, shillings and pence to Sniff, and that's better!"
Dale, then! I thought so when you came into the hall. I hope your lady is quite well, and the squire too; fine pleasant-spoken gentleman; no fault of his if Mr. Egerton went wrong. Well, we have never seen him I mean Mr. Egerton since that time. I don't wonder he stays away; but my Lord's son, who was brought up here, it an't nat'ral like that he should turn his back on us!" Mr.
"For such a pleasant-spoken lady as Miss Keith, she would sit up all night rather than disappoint her." The most implacable person of all was the old housekeeper, Tibbie.
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