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The care of such gems is too great a responsibility for the bride. I propose, therefore, to relieve her of it to-night, and to send you the customary souvenir of the event to-morrow morning. Yours faithfully, "'The Man Who Calls Himself Hamilton Cleek. "That's how I know, dash you!
"You must take this little gift as a souvenir of your visit with me. I was really very unhappy when you came, and now well, you smoothed away some misunderstandings I'm more than grateful. And it isn't natural for a woman to refuse diamonds, Jennie." "I know it isn't; and I won't quite refuse them. I'll postpone. It is possible that something I shall do before long may seriously offend you.
Here are Robert Louis Stevenson's works, 'Treasure Island, 'Kidnapped, &c., charming writer a neat pretty style, with a pleasant souvenir of Edgar Poe running through it all. You have no idea how the boys enjoy his books." "And don't you?"
Both men were weather-beaten, scarred, and tattered. Across 'Sieur George's crown, leaving a long, bare streak through his white hair, was the souvenir of a Mexican sabre. The landlord had accompanied them to the door: it was a magnificent opportunity.
"Do you need any souvenir?" she replied, giving him a glance which was neither a reproach nor a refusal. "The souvenir is in my heart, the hair will never leave my bosom! We live in an unworthy age. I can not boast of wearing your colors in everybody's eyes, and yet I should like to wear a sign of my bondage."
As for Gauner, who has betrayed you and has asked for Mina's hand he is ripe for me." I groped for the bag but the stranger stopped me. "No, my lord, you keep this; I only want a little souvenir. Be good enough and sign this scrap." On the parchment was written: "I herewith assign to bearer my soul after its natural separation from my body." I sternly refused.
To George she gave a gold watch, and a very beautiful colored photograph of Gerald, in a morocco case, as a souvenir of their brief friendship in the army. Mr. King availed himself of every hour of the voyage to gain the confidence of the young man, and to instil some salutary lessons into his very receptive mind.
The tremulous accents of his voice expressed his conviction that he would never be able to forget this journey, his joy at having seen her again, and the souvenir of divine and eternal affection which he was taking away with him. "Good-bye, Sister," said he.
We cut off from the main stem an arm about the thickness of an ordinary-sized bamboo, and, like it, knotted, for a souvenir of the place and the plant. In this same garden the tea-plant thrived; the proprietor, Count S , makes an annual racolte of its leaves, which he keeps for his own teapot.
"Why in the name of common-sense, Cynthia," he said, abruptly, without noticing her query, "if you had to give that child china for a souvenir, didn't you give her something besides Royal Sèvres?" Lyman Risley undoubtedly looked younger than Cynthia, but his manner even more than his looks gave him the appearance of comparative youth.
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