Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 20, 2025
These friends, on beholding Benedetto in that strange outfit, exchanged glances and smiles which very nearly became giggles; but the elderly Englishwoman forestalling them all constituted herself their spokeswoman.
There was, too, a general air of elation in the woman's manner of carriage that struck a chill to Cicily's heart. And the cold of it deepened as Mrs. Schmidt and Sadie Ferguson followed into the drawing-room, each evidently in a state of exaltation. The three ranged themselves in rude dignity before their hostess. Mrs. McMahon constituted herself the spokeswoman.
The spokeswoman was very tall, had a voluminous handkerchief rolled round her head, grizzled hair flowing in elf- locks from beneath it, a long red cloak, and a staff in her hand, headed with a sort of spear-point; it was, in short, Meg Merrilies. Hazlewood had never seen this remarkable figure before; he drew up his reins in astonishment at her appearance, and made a full stop.
She had at length understood what her life must be, seeing that she was at everybody's mercy; and needing to please everybody, she would laugh with young people, who liked her for a sort of wheedling flattery which always wins them; guessing and taking part with their fancies, she would make herself their spokeswoman, and they thought her a delightful confidante, since she had no right to find fault with them.
"The young lady was taken quite ill, and seemed ready to faint almost," Mrs. Mason's servant and spokeswoman told Colonel Newcome when that gentleman arrived shortly after Ethel's departure, to see his old nurse. "Indeed! he was very sorry."
"I don't know who she is, but I feel ashamed of my life. She can't really want all that truck. She's buying to help. I feel as if we were a parcel of beggars." "Well, she won't buy that fox skin to help!" Jim whispered back fiercely. The whole did not take very long. Finally the girl talked in a low voice to Mrs. Black who then became her spokeswoman. Mrs.
Here the spokeswoman for the two strangers had the grace to blush, remembering the Devil's Chair. "And this this is my friend, Una Grosvenor, who has just been initiated into 'Camp Fire. We belong to the Woo-hi-ye Victory Group of Clevedon which, you know, is only a hundred miles, or so, from here; and we "
"To benefit you in a spiritual sense," replied the one who had before acted as spokeswoman: "to purge your mind of those mundane vanities which have seized upon it, and to render you worthy of salvation. Pray, sisters pray for this at present benighted creature!"
LADY LONDONDERRY: "Do you not think the writing beautiful ... the style, I mean?" MARGOT: "I think they are all very bad, but then I don't admire Symonds' style." LADY LONDONDERRY: "I am afraid you have not read the book." This annoyed me; I saw the company were enchanted with their spokeswoman, but I thought it unnecessarily rude and more than foolish.
I felt a strong sympathy with the child, which was increased when the little spokeswoman, in answer to my inquiry, "Has he no father?" replied, "Oh, yes, but he goes away, and drinks, and don't care for his children." "And what becomes of John then?" "He stays here with us, and we teach him to read, and he learns dreadful fast."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking