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Durlacher rode as a swallow rides on an upland wind pinions stretched straightly out the consummate absence of effort; all the training of numberless years and numberless birds of the air in its wings. "Dolly this is Miss Bishop my sister, Mrs. Durlacher." Traill stamped through the ceremony, like a man through a ploughed field.
And if you refuse I shall be under the painful necessity of causing you a great deal of physical suffering. On the table by the side of your bed you will find writing paper, pen and ink. You will be so good as to write a letter to Miss Beatrice Darryll or to Mrs. Richford whatever you prefer to style her asking her to call upon you at the address which is stamped on the head of the paper.
After which, he stamped the envelope and dropped it into the letter-box at the back of the hall. "And now, Comrade Windsor," he said, "let us stroll gently homewards down the Great White Way. What matter though it be fairly stiff with low-browed bravoes in tall-shaped hats? They cannot harm us.
Then he seized my hand and wrung it all over again, and repeated his friendly demands with an intonation that was now "Why, how are you; how are you?" for me alone. It was a bit of comedy, which had the fit pathetic relief of his impending doom: this was already stamped upon his wasted face, and his gay eyes had the death-look.
The man approached. "The king has given me a commission for the lieutenant of the Porte of Agen." "Ah!" "That astonishes you?" "Yes." "It ought not, since you know me." "I know you from having seen you at the palace with the king." Chicot stamped his foot impatiently. "That should prove to you that I possess the king's confidence." "Doubtless; go on, M. Chicot, and execute your commission."
The Netherland polity was thus stamped almost at its birth with a narrow provincialism: Delay and hesitation thus necessarily engendered were overcome in the days of danger by patriotic fervour.
He passed a summer day in joyful rustic fashion with two damsels whom he hardly ever saw again, but the memory of whom and of the holiday that they had made with him remained stamped in his brain, to be reproduced many a year hence in some of the traits of the new Heloïsa and her friend Claire.
"My dear," he said, "you must remember that this is a peaceable camp of instruction of the state militia. There fly the Stars and Stripes from the general's tent. Do you see that they are above the state flag? Jinny; you forget yourself." Jinny stamped her foot
"I'm sorry, Hester, but if you won't have Ruth in, then you must go home, yourself, and I will ask you to go at once." "All right, I'm glad to go!" and Hester pulled off her crown and threw it on the ground, and stamped on it. Then she broke in two her pretty gilt sceptre, and threw that down. She flung her hat on her head and marched out of Sand Court with angry glances at each one.
Harriet kissed Annie, but her lips were cold and Annie wondered. It never occurred to her then, nor later, to imagine that her Aunt Harriet might have had her own dreams which had never entirely ended in rainbow mists. She did not know how hardly dreams die. They are sometimes not entirely stamped out during a long lifetime.
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