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Things ain't so stylish here as at your house; but I hope you'll find 'em comfortable." Mrs. Bright, a sensible-looking woman, with great moderation of manner, showed them into a plainly furnished, but very neat parlor. "O, how pleasant this is!" exclaimed Mrs. Blumenthal, as she looked out of one of the side-windows. The children ran up to her repeating: "How pleasant! What a nice hedge, mamma!
"I suppose the affair has been conducted as such affairs always are amongst rational people: you offered her your youth and your talents-such as they are in exchange for her position and money: I don't suppose you took appearance, or what is called LOVE, into the account for I understand she is older than you, and Brown says, rather sensible-looking than beautiful.
"And tell more," thought Lady Enid to herself as the door of the sensible-looking boudoir shut behind him. When the Prophet reached his door he rang the bell with a rather faltering hand. Mr. Ferdinand appeared. "Any one called, Mr. Ferdinand?" asked the Prophet with an attempt at airy gaiety. "Yes, sir," replied Mr.
The pastor seated himself at the head of the table, with his books before him, laying near them the list of the names of the class. The pastor was a stout, sensible-looking man, with a plain, quiet face, and a modest, shy air.
But our hour has come, Mary; we have barely time to thank these gentlemen for their politeness, and to return in season to dress. I am to enact a part myself, at dinner, as I hope you will all remember." Saying this, Anneke made her curtsies in a way to preclude any offer of seeing her home, and went her way with her silent but sensible-looking and pretty friend.
But in criticising the horses, I speak of what I saw on this occasion: there may be, and no doubt are, fine arabs to be had in Southern Morocco at least so I am told but I came across only what may be called "a cart-horse stamp." And yet they look very fine, these same sensible-looking beasts, with their great eyes, and flowing manes and tails, and proud carriage.
"Surgeon Sawyer, of the Buccaneer," said Cuticle, drawing in his thin lower lip with vexation, and turning to a round-faced, florid, frank, sensible-looking man, whose uniform coat very handsomely fitted him, and was adorned with an unusual quantity of gold lace; "Surgeon Sawyer, of the Buccaneer, let us now hear your opinion, if you please. Is not amputation the only resource, sir?"
"I mean year and a half." He forced his mobile features to assume a fixed expression of greedy, though rather too constant, curiosity. Lady Enid brightened up. "Mr. Vivian," she said, "many girls are born sensible-looking without wishing it." "Are they really? It never occurred to me." "Such things very seldom do occur to men. Now that places these girls in a very painful position.
It was a comfortable, sensible-looking place, however, such as were planned some eighty or a hundred years since, by men who had fortune enough to do as they pleased, and education enough to be quite superior to all pretension.
Bowles came out and shook hands with me and helped me down with my things. He was a kind, sensible-looking man, and he made the children come and speak to me and shake hands. They were shy then and hung back, and put their fingers in their mouths; I knew just how they felt. I wanted to hang back, too, when he took me into the house to see Mrs. Bowles.
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