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In the midst of these classical preparations, enters, with a bevy of attendants, the haughty queen-like Agrippina, whom Nero, having sent for to complete his triumph, commands to bend too; but she stoutly refusing, and taking him fiercely to task, objurgating likewise Rome's degenerate gray-beards great bustle senate broken up hurriedly and she, with a "feri ventrem," dragged off to be killed by her son's order.
What a fit setting for her beauty would seem the grand saloons of Osmonde House! What a fit and queen-like wearer she would be for the marvellous jewels which had crowned fair heads and clasped fair throats and arms for centuries!
I was struck by her fine proportions, which gave her, even in her kneeling attitude, a queen-like and majestic air; and I longed to obtain a glimpse of her countenance the more so as I could perceive by her manner and the position of her head that from beneath her dark veil her eyes were intently fixed upon myself.
"It is a fact," he said, slowly, "that in London you have no friends?" "Yourself," she replied. "And beyond?" "Not one." "Then, until you wish to leave, or until some more suitable and congenial sphere of work is opened for you, remain, my child." George Brudenell, speaking thus, had forgotten her beauty, her queen-like dignity, and remembered only her youth and helplessness.
She said to her lord, "Let me go back for a little while to my native village, and my ancient home, that I may show them all my splendor, and my greatness. Let me enter, sitting in my gilded chariot, with the four white horses, and feel myself as queen-like as the lady I once saw beneath the oak-wood." Kong Tolv laughed, and assented. "But," he said, "keep thy own proud self the while.
I am content to await the hour of my justification; I am content to trust in Time, the avenger of all wrongs, and the consoler of all sorrows. In the meanwhile, I will stand alone a woman without a friend, a woman who has to fight her own battles with the world." Gilbert Ashburne could not withhold his respect from the woman who stood before him, queen-like in her calm dignity.
The Cluniac was speaking. He had supped so well that he was in love with the world. "Your house and board, my lady, are queen-like. I have seen worse in palaces." Her laugh was only half pleased. "Too fine, you would add, for a burgher wife. Maybe, but rank is but as man makes it. The Kings of England are sprung of a tanner. Hark you, father!
As this young prince was hunting near the shepherd's dwelling, he saw the old man's supposed daughter; and the beauty, modesty, and queen-like deportment of Perdita caused him instantly to fall in love with her. He soon, under the name of Doricles, and in the disguise of a private gentleman, became a constant visitor at the old shepherd's house.
His own, his beautiful Juliette, with her proud face and majestic, queen-like gestures; it was a relief not to see her there. "Juliette Marny? Inconnue," was the final word he heard about her.
Up rose the peerless princess in all her queen-like beauty; up rose the courtly ladies round her. All over the castle, from cellar to belfry-tower, from the stable to the banquet hall, there was a sudden awakening, a noise of hurrying feet and mingled voices, and sounds which had long been strangers to the halls of Isenstein.
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