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"Stick to Don Juan," exhorted another; "it is the only sincere thing you have written, and it will live after all your Harolds have ceased to be 'a schoolgirl's tale, the wonder of an hour. It is the best of all your works the most spirited, the most straightforward, the most interesting, the most poetical."
"And it would be so easy of attainment," he continued, "this aim which, whether knowingly or not, I have always had in my heart ever since the day when you snubbed me so horribly once in Paris, you remember." A slight smile seemed to move the corner of the lip that was on his side. "You know you were a very terrible person, a sort of Charlotte Corday in a schoolgirl's dress; a ferocious patriot.
A stranger, almost a foreigner amongst us, with no home but that great school-room; no comforts, no in-dulgences, no knick-knacks, no money, nothing but the sheer, bare, naked necessaries of a schoolgirl's life; no dear family to think of and to go to; no fond father to come to see her; no brothers and sisters; no kindred; no friends.
But the address of Mark Anthony over the dead body of Cæsar was not more effective than this simple schoolgirl's speech. Every girl there melted into tears of remorse and sympathy. "Oh, Grace," cried Marian Barber, "won't you forgive us? We never dreamed it would hurt you so. Now that I look back upon it, I can't see how we could have asked you to do it.
Copley" used to paint his old-fashioned merchant-princes in; and a quaint-looking key in his hand. Our conversation was short, but long enough to convince me that the Little Gentleman did not want my company in his chamber, and did not mean to have it. I have been making a great fuss about what is no mystery at all, a schoolgirl's secrets and a whimsical man's habits.
'Yes, said the awakener, 'the Mum, the Pater, and the Kid. Mr. Barndale did not look like the sort of man to be vastly shocked at these terms of irreverence, yet it is a fact that his brown and bearded cheeks flushed like any schoolgirl's. 'Stopping at the Hotel de la Ville, said the awakener, 'and adoing of the Grand Tower, my pippin. I'm playing cicerone. Come up and have a smoke and a jaw.
The thought of this general homage gave a faint thrill of comfort to the widow's heart. "My noble husband," she ejaculated. "Who could help loving you?" It seemed to her only a little while ago that she had driven up to the Tudor porch for the first time after her happy honeymoon, when she was in the bloom of youth and beauty, and life was like a schoolgirl's happy dream.
The embrace disarranged his glasses and flushed his face like a schoolgirl's, but his eyes were full of embarrassed delight. "There, there," he said, "we'll take care of him !" Then suddenly he paused, for the real significance of her action dawned upon him. "Dear me," he said in disturbed meditation; "dear me!" She suddenly opened the bedroom door and went in, followed by Nic.
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