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For, presto! the shirt was a coat! a strange-looking coat, to be sure; of a Quakerish amplitude about the skirts; with an infirm, tumble-down collar; and a clumsy fullness about the wristbands; and white, yea, white as a shroud. And my shroud it afterward came very near proving, as he who reads further will find.
"I haven't come back and I'm not coming back. I'm I'm a Visitant from Another World. You shut up about me and I'll shut up about myself. I came back because I thought you might be hard up or in trouble or some silly thing like that. Now I see you again I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied completely. See? I'm going to absquatulate, see? Hey Presto right away."
Maurice knew enough about the Sicilian character to be fully aware of that. And what had he to hide? Nothing. He must wait for Gaspare, and then he could set out for the sea. It seemed to him a long time before he saw Tito, the donkey, tripping among the stones, and heard Gaspare's voice hailing him from below. He was impatient to be off, and he shouted out: "Presto, Gaspare, presto!"
In the Earl's Court Road it had not been half-past, and at Barker's in High Street it was but a minute later. A long half-mile a minute, that was going like the wind, and indeed we had done much of it at a gallop. But the next hundred yards took us five minutes by the next clock, and which was one to believe? "Presto, presto," my pale guide murmured. "Affretatevi avanti!"
He sat down at a piano, and began to touch the keys. Harz poured out some wine. Sarelli nodded. "You begin with that? Allegro piu presto! "Wine brandy kummel!" he quickened the time of the tune: "it is not too long a passage, and this" he took his hands off the keys "comes after." Harz smiled. "Some men do not kill themselves," he said.
But for 'Cardinal' substitute 'Mrs. as its prefix, and, presto! it is equally descriptive of that dreadful medio-Victorian murderess who in the dock of the Old Bailey wore a black satin gown, and thereby created against black satin a prejudice which has but lately died. In itself black satin is a beautiful thing. Yet for many years, by force of association, it was accounted loathsome.
Let him arrange an agreement between us, so that presto he may see me there with my brave nobles, with infantry and with plenty of Switzers. Tell him that I am his friend: Begone. Be diligent."
A wonderful smile, so bright was it, and withal so sad, came into her face. "Westover!" she said to herself. "That is where the princess lives." "We will let thought alone," continued Haward. "It suits not with this charmed light, this glamour of the summer." He made a laughing gesture. "Hey, presto! little maid, there go the years rolling back!
There was a very solemn expression in his eyes. And suddenly it seemed that the nearby trees began to lift and disappear; and presto! Everychild and his companions were standing quite close to one of the most famous and remarkable houses ever heard of. Everychild had too little time just then to marvel at the strange feat which had been performed by the giant.
The pretty shining sphere hovered, sank, touched a rock, and in a minute hey! presto! there was no bubble there; it had utterly disappeared, and Prince Frisbie, with a very sober face, walked home to tell his wife that he had lost every thing they had in the world. This was not a pleasant or an easy thing to do, as you can readily imagine. The children never forgot this evening.
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