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Her thick blond hair was carelessly gathered into a knot behind; her complexion was pale, her blue eyes were bright and vivacious, and her coral lips were parted in a coquettish smile. Every movement was fraught with grace and charm, every pose commanded admiration. She followed up her self-introduction with a laugh a laugh that sounded familiar to her listener.
The letter began somewhat as mine to him had begun with a self-introduction: "DEAR MR. CLEMENS, It is so long since Archibald Forbes and I spent that pleasant afternoon in your comfortable house at Hartford that you have probably quite forgotten the occasion." Here was the single essential detail of my letter answered three days after I had mailed my inquiry.
Amici miei of Oxford and Cambridge, excuse the informality of self-introduction; and pray keep your caution-money till you have taken your Master-in-Arts degree abroad.
Such was the self-introduction of Master Wildrake, to which the knight replied, by asking him to sit down, and take a glass of sack to his Majesty's glorious restoration.
He strode to the fire, extended a limp, cold hand to Jason and I in turn with an almost inaudible greeting, and crouched down by the dying blaze, his dark eyes bent upon the glowing embers. Naturally expecting him to be Dutch, both Jason and I had greeted him in the usual manner by giving our own names in self-introduction.
"I beg your pardon, Mr. Wade! I beg your pardon, sir!" he said, nimbly transferring himself, after the quasi self-introduction, from Wade to Matt. "May I ask whether you have received any further information?" "No," said Matt, amiably, "the only answer we have got is that it is impossible to identify the passengers in the parlor-car." "Ah, thank you! Thank you very much, sir!
An investigation of the basement showed him that in the rear of the building were one large and two small courts or air shafts. Then he ascended the iron stairway to the street level of the vestibule. "Say, bo, I come to fix de pipes on de second floor," was his self-introduction to the haughty negro attendant. "Dey're leakin' an' me boss tells me to git on de job in a hustle." "Which one?
The only surprise she showed at my knowledge of her name and my self-introduction was to lift her head slightly and look at me, as if wondering whether I was likely to be an inquisitive and troublesome host; and also, as I thought, to measure me according to her measure. It was a quick look, and the interest she showed was of a passive kind.
It had been only six months after he had bolted up from the wreck of his plane by way of self-introduction to Marta before he alighted in the field across the road from the garden to report a promise kept. Once she knew that he was a Lanstron of Thorbourg, a fact of hardly passing interest to Marta, Mrs. Galland made him intimately welcome.
You do me the honour to require my opinion of your performances: including of course this self-introduction?" Hardie hung his head; there was a touch of satire in the lady's voice, he thought. Her soft eyes rested demurely on him a moment; she saw he was a little abashed. "My opinion of it all is that you have been very kind to us; in being most kind to our poor Edward.
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