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Updated: May 9, 2025
'The child can in no sense be adjudged guilty. 'It is Victor's child. 'He adores the child. Wheels were in mute motion within them; and presently the remark was tossed-up: 'In his coming to us, it is possible to see paternal solicitude' Thence came fruit of reflection: 'To be instrumental as guides to a tender young life! Reflection heated with visions: 'Once our dream!
When she was not playing bridge she played bridge every day of her life she spent her time lying in the full glare of the sun. She could stand any amount of it; she never had enough. All the same, it did not seem to warm her. Parched, withered, cold, she lay stretched on the stones like a piece of tossed-up driftwood. The women at the Bay thought she was very, very fast.
"God have mercy on their souls!" Had he been able to see what happened he might have thought that the confused brain of the dying boy who had imagined the air-ship to be an angel, was not so far wrong, for no romancer or teller of wild tales could have pictured a stranger or more unearthly sight than the wonderful "White Eagle" poised at ease amid the tossed-up clouds of spray flung from the seething mass of waters, while at her prow stood a woman fair as any fabled goddess a woman reckless of all danger, and keenly on the alert, with bright eyes searching every nook and cranny that could be discerned through the mist.
I saw at a glance that he was equal to the situation. He was presumably the author of the statuettes on the table, and he knew a money- spending forestiere when he saw one. He was a small wiry man, with a clever, impudent, tossed-up nose, a sharp little black eye, and waxed ends to his moustache.
"Where did your mistress get the brandy she has had to-day?" he asked of the pert, untidy-looking maid-of-all-work who appeared. "Where'd she get it? Out of the bottle, of course. I fetched it for her away from the grocer's, right enough," the servant said, with an impudent face and a tossed-up head. "I thought I had given you orders never to fetch your mistress anything of the sort?"
To the epicure it ensures better fare and attendance than he can command by any other means, as the landlord and his attendants feel both their credit and interest concerned in displaying the most alacrity, and producing the greatest variety of dishes before a large party; while chance customers, after waiting for a long hungry interval, may have to encounter tired waiters, and partake of the tossed-up leavings of this very table d'hôte;
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