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We can sit and watch the hansoms turn into Piccadilly." "It shall be as you say," he answered. "I wonder if all London is as excited to-night as the crowd we have just left." "To me," she murmured, "London seems always imperturbable, stonily indifferent to good or evil.
"Applications were not made till the fruit was on the trees," said Lord RHONDDA'S minion, sharply. "Ah, there's a nice lot of plums." This seemed more satisfactory. "Yes, isn't there?" I said enthusiastically. "Now I'm sure this makes up the amount all right." "Plums are stone fruit," he observed stonily, "and you were allocated one hundredweight of sugar for your soft fruit, I believe?"
So Aunt Griselda drank her green tea in acrid silence, turning at intervals to reprove Bernard for taking too large mouthfuls or to request Eugenia to remove her elbows from the table. To-day, when Eugenia descended, she was gazing stonily into Miss Chris's genial face, and listening constrainedly to a story at which the general was laughing heartily.
"May I have your consent, Mr. Bays?" asked Dic, after a long pause, turning to Rita's father. "Yes," he replied, "yes, Dic, I will be glad " Justice at the moment recovered sight and hearing, and gazed stonily at its mate. The mate, after a brief pause, continued in a different tone: "That is, I don't care. You and mother fix it between you. I don't know anything about such matters." Mr.
It was a morning of bleak winds and shifting clouds. The sea was just visible, very far and dim and grey. She stood a long while gazing stonily out. "Can I get you anything, darling?" said Mrs. Langdale's voice softly behind her. "No, thank you," the girl said, without turning. "Please leave me; that's all!" And Mrs.
Corliss's hand with a fleeting touch of her finger-tips upon his palm. "Of course you wanted to smoke. I can't think why I didn't realize it before. I must have " A voice called from within, commanding in no, uncertain tones. "Hedrick! I should like to see you!" Hedrick rose, and, looking neither to the right nor, to the left, went stonily into the house, and appeared before the powers.
"Oh, mother," sobbed the girl, "I beg you not to ask that promise of me. I can't give it. I can't. I can't." "Give me the promise this instant, or I'll disown you. Do you promise?" The old woman bent fiercely over her daughter and waited stonily for an answer. Rita shrank from her, but could not resist the domineering old creature, so she whispered:
He looked in our direction as he said it. Mr. Heathcroft made no sign. He produced a gold cigarette box and extended it in my direction. "Will you?" he inquired. "No, thank you," I replied. "I will smoke a cigar, if you don't mind." He did not appear to mind. He lighted his cigarette, readjusted his monocle, and stared stonily at the gesticulating auctioneer. The bidding went on.
"I should be glad if you would make me out a check for six thousand pounds. It would be as well, perhaps, for you to cross it. The Capital and Counties Bank, Oxford Street branch are my agents." His Grace sat very stern and upright in his chair and looked stonily at my friend. "Is this a joke, Mr. Holmes? It is hardly a subject for pleasantry." "Not at all, your Grace.
She was almost sorry when the time to join the ship arrived. It was a moment of anguish, of excitement; they arrived at the dock in the evening and Flora after "making her father comfortable" according to established usage lingered in the state-room long enough to notice that he was surprised. She caught his pale eyes observing her quite stonily. Then she went out after a cheery good-night.
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