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Let us close the panel again carefully, as a measure of prudence, and then light a lantern and go downstairs to see if there may be any one hidden in corners, and if the doors are tightly shut: in short, to reassure Chrysanthème we will go the round of the house.

"I have caused so much suffering that I feel as if I had committed a crime;" and she gave an account of the recent interview. "Let me reassure you," said her father, gravely. "You did mean kindly by Merwyn, and you gave him, without being unwomanly, the best chance he could possibly have to throw off the incubus that is burdening his life.

It is only women who travel and see the world who really need to be upon their guard." Olga smiled also at that. "Shall I tell you a secret?" she said. "Do, dear!" Violet instantly stiffened to attention. The smile went out of her face; Olga almost fancied that she looked apprehensive. "It's quite a selfish one," she said, seeking instinctively to reassure her.

Rouletabille was already into the garden again. "If that is the only doubt she has," he said to himself, "I can reassure her. No one could come, excepting by the window. And only one came that way." The young girl had rejoined him, bringing the flask.

Make inquiries, but leave me to row my own boat. My confidence ought to reassure you." "The Lord said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me. You are one of those who have come back again," replied the Baron with a touch of irony. After breakfast the dealer was announced, and the artist with his group.

Grant was conscious of an undercurrent of suspicion in the constable's manner. He was wroth with the man, but recognized that he had to deal with narrow-minded self-importance, so contrived again to curb his temper. "I am not acquainted with old Ben or his ghost," he said quietly. "I can only tell you that I went inside to reassure Mrs. Bates, and then strolled slowly to this very spot.

This did not reassure Warburton, nor did he know what this comparison meant, being an ordinary mortal. "With all respect to you, Miss Annesley, I am sorry that you are determined to ride him. He is most emphatically not a lady's horse, and you have never ridden him. Your skirts will irritate him, and if he sees your crop, he'll bolt." She did not reply, but merely signified her desire to mount.

"We might get some things in earnest, good things. They will always do for the wedding with Tista. Meanwhile, papa will of course have to change his mind, and then it will be all right." "What genius!" cried the Signora Pandolfi. "Oh, Lucia! You have found it! And then we can just step into the workshop on our way that will reassure your father."

I jist couldn't! An' she might let it out, Elsie, now mightn't she?" Elsie paused a moment. She was about to reassure her, but checked herself. Evidently soothing was not what the invalid needed. "Yes, Arabella," she said honestly, "she might." Silvery soft by the forest side, Wine-red, yellow and rose, The Wizard of Autumn, faint-blue eyed, Swinging his censer, goes.

I suppose there are such men in real life?" "I doubt if there are such romantic figures as the books make out," I tried to reassure her. "There might be a prince or two, handsome and cultivated, educated in England, perhaps, for some of the 'swells' are sent from Egypt to Oxford and Cambridge, just as they are in India.