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"It's a very pretty nose you've got, dear, but it's not much use to you, I'm afraid," said Jack teasingly. "Did it never occur to you one moment that it was rather highly scented, and the scent a little different from the ordinary common or garden cheese?" and Bridgie shook her head in solemn denial. "Never the ghost of a suspicion!
He had set down the lamp on a package just within the baggage-room door, so that his own room, by which he entered, was pretty dark, save for the fire showing through the damper of the stove. Trenholme stopped in it just one moment to listen; then, unwilling to encourage hesitation in himself, went through the next door.
"Dear Blanche," Arthur wrote, "you are always reading and dreaming pretty dramas, and exciting romances in real life, are you now prepared to enact a part of one?
"About Miss Lilian Dale!" he said, repeating her words. "Is she very pretty?" "Yes; she certainly is pretty." "And very nice, and attractive, and clever, and all that is delightful? Is she perfect?" "She is very attractive," said he; "but I don't think she's perfect." "And what are her faults?" "That question is hardly fair, is it?
"We see through you, villain!" "Say, she must think you're one of the Cherry Corners ghosts," broke in Teddy whimsically. "It's pretty hard on a fellow when you can see through him, Billie." "But honest you couldn't," Ferd insisted, not to be defeated in this one last hope. "Really, I don't know enough about an egg to take the shell off when I fry it."
"'Tis in vain to wooe a widow over long, In once or twice her mind you may perceive; Widows are subtle, be they old or young, And by their wiles young men they will deceive." Come, do not weep, my girl, Forget him, pretty Pensiveness; there will Come others, every day, as good as he.
"It's pretty tough, in fact, about the toughest I ever saw," replied Van Dorn, "but then, you remember we got a hint at Silver City that they were sharpers."
It did not suggest itself to him to mention whether he thought the name pretty. And then they died. The great day of MacWhirr's marriage came in due course, following shortly upon the great day when he got his first command.
Well! he manages to get on, whilst Jack is hanged; not quite enviably, however; he has had his rubs, and pretty hard ones everybody knows he slunk from Waterloo, and occasionally checks him with so doing; whilst he has been rejected by a woman what a mortification to the low pride of which the scoundrel has plenty!
I mention this trifle, simply because, trifle as it is, it involved a mystery, and furnishes an occasion for glancing at that topic. Mysteries as deep, with results a little more important and foundations a little sounder, have many times crossed me in life; one, for instance, I recollect at this moment, known pretty extensively to the neighborhood in which it occurred.
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