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'I think I can reach the thing, the manager remarked, 'if I lie down, and put my hand into the hole. He knelt on the floor and hesitated. 'Might I ask you, sir, to give me my gloves? he said. 'They are in my hat, on the chair behind you. Henry gave him the gloves. 'I don't know what I may be going to take hold of, the manager explained, smiling rather uneasily as he put on his right glove.
'I never forget for a moment. Leave it to me. He came and stood beside her. She put out her hand, which he took. 'Do you still believe what you said? he asked her, huskily. Eleanor looked up smiling. 'A thousand times more! she said, under her breath. 'A thousand times more. But here the conversation reached an impasse. Manisty could not say 'Then why? in Heaven's name! for he knew why.
"Because," she explained, "I think it must be that which is making you serious. I don't know you that way. It is n't you. I 've seen you all these years, wandering around wherever your fancy took you care-free and smiling. I've always envied you, and now I thought you were just going to keep right on, only taking me with you. Is n't that what we planned?" "Yes," he nodded. "We started yesterday."
You must have gone through enough in the last week, not to be likely to do it again." "Yes, papa thank you." "I suppose I must not ask you any questions about it, for fear of betraying the fellows," said Dr. May, half smiling.
Micawber has entered the transactions he calls them transactions with great form, in a book, rejoined Traddles, smiling; 'and he makes the amount a hundred and three pounds, five. 'Now, what shall we give him, that sum included? said my aunt. 'Agnes, my dear, you and I can talk about division of it afterwards. What should it be? Five hundred pounds?
Oh!" he suddenly exclaimed, smiling with satisfaction at his own keenness. "Now I understand, now I see what you mean. But it is not so, it is not so at all."
"Why, mother," replied Mattie, smiling and viewing her mother from head to foot, "how very worldly you are getting, and so vain. Never saw you look better and so young." "I appreciate the compliment, my daughter," returned Mrs. Chapman, dropping a bow and a courtesy. "A woman of my complexion may be excused for refusing to get old." "I was only joking," resumed Mattie, laughing heartily.
Phorenice's influence seemed to have spread as though it were some horrid blight over the whole face of what was once a smiling and an easy-living land. So far I had met with little enough interference from any men I had come across.
She began to tell him about a little boy, who said "it was too funny!" she interrupted herself, smiling "who said that you were 'Mrs. Richie's brother, and you stayed at her house in Old Chester, and " "Perfect nonsense!" he broke in. "He mistook me for some one else, I suppose." "Oh, of course," she agreed, laughing; upon which Mr.
It was the wedding night of Marius and Cosette. The day had been adorable. It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling.
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