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"Well, then, that's settled," he said, with absolute finality, "you can go and talk to your precious friends as much as you like, so long as you behave yourself as a tokened bride should, but I will not have you dance that abominable csárdás again to-night." "And have you behaved to-day, Béla," she retorted quite gently, "as a tokened bridegroom should?"
In this action he tokened his frame of mind: he was going to persist in his study of the Latin language, and his new name stood for peace or blessing, just as the other had, being essentially the same as our word benediction. The man's purpose was firm.
"Aw Jimmery!" cried his wife. "I'm hearing things! And where did you larn these fine lies if I ban't axing too much?" "From a friend," he said. "I've got one good and faithful friend left at Postbridge, and thanks to him, I've had the bitter truth these many days." "Would it surprise you to hear, Nicky, that Solomon Chuff's tokened to Miller Ley's oldest daughter?
"And that England had to win to its sensuous delight in rhythm through Milton and Shelley " "Who was a metaphysician." Aaron broke in. "A lyrical metaphysician," Terrence defined instantly. "That you must acknowledge, Aaron." "And Swinburne?" Aaron demanded, with a significance that tokened former arguments. "He says Offenbach was the fore-runner of Arthur Sullivan," Paula cried challengingly.
Who'd a thot the like o' her had got a whore's forehead? An' tokened at that tokened to a sailor-man by name o' Noy. Let'n come home, let'n come home an' call the devil as did it to his account. Let the Lard see to't so that man edn' 'lowed to flourish no more. I be tu auld an' broken for any sich task. 'For the hurt o' the darter o' my people I am hurt."
"You asked just now," he continued, in the same hoarse, guttural whisper, which seemed literally to be racking and tearing his throat as it came, "what the back-door key had to do with my not going to meet my brother at Fiume. Well! It has this much to do with it, that you happen to be my tokened wife, that you happen to be of my race and of my blood, a sober, clean-living Jewess, please God, and not one of those frivolous, empty-headed Christian girls you are that now, I know; if you were not I would kill you first and myself afterwards: therefore, if to-night I catch a thief any thief, I don't care who he is sneaking into this house by a back door when you happen to be here alone and seemingly unprotected, if I catch any kind of thief or malefactor, I say .
For the time he was changed; the quick brevity of his utterance tokened an interested excitement. He was not at all like the Crane she knew, the cold, collected banker. "Lucretia's doing better," her companion added a few seconds later. "If I were given to sentiment, I should say her gallop was the poetry of motion. She deserves to win.
You've been treated ill, an' I'm cryin' that such a gude gude, braave, big-hearted man as you, should be brought to this for a fule of a gal like me. I ban't worthy a handshake from 'e, or a kind word. An' an' Clem Hicks Clem be tokened to me these two year an' more. He'm the best man in the world; an' I hate un for not tellin' 'e an' an' "
And in any case the rash youth never ought to have opened his mouth, of course, on such a secret subject. But twenty-four hours later, my 'Mother's Misfortune' was tokened to Minnie Parable, and when the Dowager died, of course the money came Rupert's way. Strange to relate, it was a tolerable happy marriage as such things go.
Gradually, as he spoke, his arms had clasped round her, his passionate whispers came in short gasps to her ear. Gently now she disengaged herself. "But I am tokened to Béla, Andor," she said gently. "To-morrow is my wedding day. I have made my confession. Pater Bonifácius has prepared me for Holy Communion. My word is pledged to Béla." "He doesn't love you, Elsa, and he is not your husband yet.
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