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Even her little head had to bend under the low doorway, and behold, it was the very closest, stuffiest, if not the hottest place she had ever been in!
Even her little head had to bend under the low doorway, and behold it was the very closest, stuffiest, if not the hottest place she had ever been in!
Have you seen it?" Some tone in my question seemed to touch her expression with surprise as she lifted her eyes to mine; or perhaps it was the hour I chose for the inquiry. "Oh, yes," she answered readily. "I supposed you had noticed it long ago; I mean, where it stands. The quaintest bit, a genuine antique! And holding the stuffiest collection of old books, too!
Yet it would be preferable to Port Vila, as the climate is much better, Vila being one of the hottest, stuffiest and rainiest spots in the group, and its harbour is becoming too small for the increased traffic of the last few years. Port Vila only became the capital of the islands when the English influence grew stronger, while all the land round Port Havannah belonged to a French company.
He never talks about anything but who peoples' grandfathers and grandmothers were; and Watson's Annals seems to be the only book that he ever has heard of. Indeed, I do truly think that he is the very stuffiest and stupidest old gentleman that I ever have known." Mr.
And here the old Duchess throws them headlong at each other in all their full bloom into each other's arms. I did not do it. You didn't. It was the stuffiest old female grandee in London, who wouldn't let me sweep her front door-steps for her because I'm an impropriety." She asked a dozen questions, was quite humorous over the picture she drew of Mrs.
Her father, who had not heard, or had not heeded, this colloquy, retreated into the corner, put up the collar of his coat, and coughed again. "It is cold, my dear," said he, languidly, to Helen. The passenger caught the word, and replied indignantly, but as if soliloquizing, "Cold-ugh! I do believe the English are the stuffiest people!
You lost your grouse-shooting this year and the Derby, didn't you? all to sit in plate armour and jack-boots at that gloomiest and stuffiest of Horse Guards. Bearwarden, I I wish you'd give up the regiment, I do indeed." When Maud's countenance wore a pleading expression, as now, it was more than beautiful, it was lovely. Looking in her face it seemed to him that it was the face of an angel.
Her father, who had not heard, or had not heeded, this colloquy, retreated into the corner, put up the collar of his coat, and coughed again. "It is cold, my dear," said he, languidly, to Helen. The passenger caught the word, and replied indignantly, but as if soliloquizing, "Cold-ugh! I do believe the English are the stuffiest people!
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