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Perhaps to a woman it is almost as dreadful to think of losing her beauty as of losing her reputation. At any rate, she looked quite as gloomy as she had looked at any minute that day. 'You shouldn't be so troubled about a mere personal adornment, said Knight, with some of the severity of tone that had been customary before she had beguiled him into softness.
"I don't think you can tell me what would be better what you'd have preferred," the young man said. "What I should have preferred? In the first place you must remember that I wasn't madly impatient to see you married." "I can imagine that, and yet I can't imagine that as things have turned out you shouldn't be struck with my felicity. To get something so charming and to get it of our own species!"
"I'm sorry for that; I think an aristocracy ought to be splendid," Henrietta declared. "If it's not that, what is it?" "Oh, you know, it isn't much, at the best," her neighbour allowed. "Won't you have a potato?" "I don't care much for these European potatoes. I shouldn't know you from an ordinary American gentleman." "Do talk to me as if I were one," said Lord Warburton.
"W-want you to go to school for a winter, Cynthy. Shouldn't think I'd done right by you if I didn't." "But I have been to school. Daddy taught me a lot, and Mr. Satterlee has taught me a great deal more. I know as much as most girls of my age, and I will study so hard in Coniston this winter, if that is what you want. I've never neglected my lessons, Uncle Jethro."
Thunder-showers had been tolerably frequent of late, and I was not much afraid of a failure; still, I shouldn't have cared for a delay of a day or two; I should have explained that I was busy with affairs of state yet, and the people must wait. Of course, we had a blazing sunny day almost the first one without a cloud for three weeks; things always happen so.
But I can't say them." "No. You can't say them. But I can. I think I could stop the whole thing in five minutes, if I saw Mrs. Levitt. Will you leave it to me?" "Come I don't know " "Why not? I assure you it'll be all right." "Well. Perhaps. It's a matter of business. A pure matter of business." "It certainly is that. There's no reason why you shouldn't hand it over to your secretary."
Now, let me remind you: you're sleepin' in a pretty good bed; you're eatin' pretty fair food; you're wearin' pretty fine clothes. Just suppose one o' these noisy housekeepers me, for instance decided to let you do your own housekeepin'. May I ask what your proposition would be?" "I'm earning nine dollars a week," said Bibbs, sturdily. "It's enough. I shouldn't mind at all."
"You mind, sir, how we got out of the prison in France, and I don't see why we shouldn't get out of this place," observed Jack, going to one of the two narrow windows which the room contained, and looking forth. They were strongly-barred. The night was dark, and he could only see the glimmer of a light here and there in the distance.
It's absolutely unbusinesslike and unpractical. Simply a letter, asking them, as old friends, to do this thing. Whether they will or not the Almighty only knows." "Well, Daniel, I must say I shouldn't have thought you, as his lawyer, would have let him do such a thing.
"I hoped I shouldn't be," he said simply. "By Jove, how I've looked forward to this coming over here the first moment I could. I wish you hadn't got all these people here, though." "All these people!" echoed Cicely. "Why, Jim, you know them as well as we do." "Yes, I'm a selfish beggar. I wanted to have you all to myself." Cicely was a little disturbed in her mind.
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