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"Will you take that off, and let me look at it?" he asked. "Thank you," he said, as she somewhat surprisedly obeyed. "I believe," he continued, as he quietly passed the ornament to Lord Ellingham, "that Mr. Ashton gave you this and told you it had belonged to your father? Just so! Well," he concluded, handing the ornament back, "I think that's all. Much obliged to you, Miss Wickham.
"And remember, if you fail this time you'll be put out!" shouted Laura, somewhat cruelly. The little lady looked distressed, but Faith leaned over and whispered quickly, "Did you ever make tatting, Mrs. Windemere?" "Why, yes, of course I have," surprisedly, wondering what tatting could have to do with the present game. "Make believe you're throwing your shuttle and then let the gromet fly.
"Nan wake up!" he urged gently. She woke then came back to a full sense of her surroundings. "You, Peter?" she murmured surprisedly. She made an effort to sit up, then sank back against the wall, uttering a sharp cry of distress. "Where are you hurt?" asked Mallory with quick anxiety. She shook her head at him, smiling reassuringly. "I'm not hurt. I'm only stiff. You'll have to help me up, Peter."
Such a foot and such ! He felt it more becoming and safer to lift his eyes to the ceiling and keep them there, which gave him somewhat the aspect of one praying. Sir Jeoffry stood at the buffet with a flagon of ale in his hand, taking his stirrup cup. At the sight of a stranger and one attired in the garb of a chaplain, he scowled surprisedly. "What's this?" quoth he. "What dost want, Clo?
His ears were red where she had boxed them and as he turned a rather foolish face surprisedly toward the intruders, a scratch showed livid on one cheek. The girl's hair streamed disheveled by the struggle. She caught up, hastily, a handsome opera cloak to cover her torn corsage. "Please," she said, "get me out of here quickly.... I'll pay you well." Then she flushed as young Stanley stiffened.
She said many other things; things implying such vast learning that he made gigantic resolves to "read like thunder." Her great lesson was the art of taking tea. He found, surprisedly, that they weren't really going to endanger their clothes by rolling on park grass.
"Why, Lascelles, you surely are not afraid?" he asked, looking me surprisedly in the face. "No, sir, I am not," I answered, rather nettled, "I am only prudent; and " "Pooh!" he interrupted lightly, "prudent! Me dear bhoy, prudence is a very good thing sometimes, but it does not do for such business as ours. A bould dash and have done wid it is the motto for us.
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