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You know it now, and I advise you to use it. Eleanor returned the pressure of the other's hand with an infinitesimal soupcon of a squeeze. 'And remember, said the signora, 'he is not like other men. You must not expect him to come to you with vows and oaths and pretty presents, to kneel at your feet, and kiss your shoe-strings.
It was not a very agreeable task soothing this selfish and cowardly woman; and she was by no means assured that there was no cause for anxiety. Her thoughts reverted to Bertie. Suppose they were all drowned. In theory she hoped Cecil would be happy with him. Still there was a soupçon of gratification in imagining him mourning in secret anguish and remorse over her untimely end.
My halt could only have been momentary. I recollected myself and was passing on, when she spoke to me. "Would you be so kind as to do me a favour, sir?" she asked. The voice was as sweet and winning as her expression; though she spoke perfect English, yet there was the very slightest soupçon of a foreign accent. Of what country, I could not tell.
Her eyes had a touch of tragedy and a great weariness in their depths, but as they rested gravely on her guest there was the faintest soupcon of amusement under their drooping lids. "My dear," quoth the grande dame, very gently, "forgive me if I intrude on delicate ground, but I want to ask to know that is ," very regretfully, "just tell me why do you lead a sinful life?"
The little head of the Postage Department was moving restlessly about in the neighbourhood of Psmith's and Mike's desk. 'Am I mistaken, said Psmith to Mike, 'or is there the merest suspicion of a worried look on our chief's face? It seems to me that there is the slightest soupcon of shadow about that broad, calm brow. Going into Winter Quarters There was.
It means that they say whatever they like to you, and don't get up out of your favorite chair when you come in." "I agree," said I, "that a soupcon of unfamiliarity is not amiss." "Of course it's nice to be one of the family," she continued. "The cat is that," said I. "I would not give a fig for it." "And the Dowager taught me the ways of the house." "Ah, she taught me the way out of it."
Powder, paint, and costume made 'Miss Douglas' a very different woman from Miss Devon, but a few cautious inquiries settled the matter, and I then understood where you got that slight soupcon of dash and daring which makes our demure governess so charming when with me." As he spoke, Mr.
These kind of "tableaux vivants" or "art studies" give quite a thrill of novelty to Cairene-English Society, a touch of savagery, a soupcon of peculiarity which is entirely lacking to fashionable London.
What do you men so clumsy know of the delicate feelings of a lady like Madame Holymead? The least soupçon of excitement and she is disturbed, distraite, for days. After last night after the visit of the police agent she was quite hysterical." "Why should she be when she had nothing to be afraid of?" rejoined Crewe.
Pussy was the youngest Miss Gresham, who was now only eight years old, and whose real name was Nina. "Augusta," said Beatrice, speaking with some slight hesitation, some soupcon of doubt, before the high authority of her noble cousin, "if you do have Miss Moffat would you mind asking Mary Thorne to join her?
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