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Thither they went; the office was closed and dark; but the house was close by, and Leon was soon swinging the bell like a madman. The Commissary's wife appeared at a window. She was a thread-paper creature, and informed them that the Commissary had not yet come home. "Is he at the Maire's?" demanded Leon. She thought that was not unlikely. "Where is the Maire's house?" he asked.
"Look here, you little spitfire," said he, "if you don't instantly take my arm, I'll catch you up and carry you over, with no more trouble than you would carry a thread-paper." She looked him up and down very keenly, and at last with a slight expression of feminine approval, the first she had vouchsafed him. Then she folded her arms, and cocked her little nose at him, "You daren't.
She had been presented to Nelson by her husband, who had previously told her that he was about to introduce her to a little thread-paper of a man, who could not boast of being very handsome, but who would become, some day, one of the greatest men that England ever produced. After the battle of the Nile he again visited Naples, and was now little better than a perfect wreck.
"Not just yet not until I have consulted some one else." "Oh, Hubert, I suppose?" "No," said Enid, blushing and holding down her head "not Hubert." Miss Vane put up her gold-rimmed eye-glasses, and inspected her for a minute or two. "You look as if you had been worried out of your life!" she said. "You are as thin as a thread-paper! Well, you will not be worried here, my child.
I get out of the way of a thread-paper clerk, and 't is a wonder I am not run over by the omnibuses, I feel as if I could run over them! I perceive, too, that there is something outlandish, peregrinate, and lawless about me. Beau Brummel would certainly have denied me all pretension to the simple air of a gentleman, for every third passenger turns back to look at me.
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