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"My dear lady," he protested, "the slight friendship between Lady Ruth and myself is not of the nature to engender such a fear." She shrugged her beautiful shoulders. Her hands were toying with the rope of pearls which hung from her neck. She bent over them, as though examining the color of the stones. "How long have you known Ruth?" she asked quietly. He looked at her steadfastly.
She even eyed Laura somewhat uneasily, meanwhile toying with a long gold chain, after the manner of the Lady Superintendent. "Didn't Mrs. Gurley tell you what to do?" she queried. "I should think it likely she would. Oh well, if she didn't, I suppose you'd better bring your things downstairs. Yes ... and ask Miss Zielinski to give you a shelf."
By day the slender little flame of honourable betrothed love flickers for him; by night it blazes more brightly for yonder Swiss scoundrel. And the young lady chooses for the scene of this toying with fire the easily ignited warehouse of her own father!"
It was at dinner at the glittering table in the splendid dining-room of the magnificent house in Notting Hill, Rosalie there on the half-term week-end of her last term, that the frightful thing was done. At dinner: Uncle Pyke Pounce bathing in his soup; beautiful Laetitia elegantly toying with hers; Aunt Belle beaming over her solid silver spoon at Rosalie. "Try that soup, dear child.
"I fear," replied the Prime Minister, "that it is often my duty to give your Majesty dissatisfaction." "Well, well," said the King, "we shall see!" He had drawn out of his pocket a small shard and was toying with it as he spoke. "By the way," he said, considerately changing the subject, "I was at the Prefecture this morning; I took the Prince to see the museum." "So I was informed, sir."
Toying with her, who so quickly understood and so gratefully accepted the gifts of the intellect which he offered, was so sweet, but in these days it must not be permitted to impair mental repose, keen thought.
She was repaid for all her terrors, she was happy and secure! "Whom the gods would destroy, they first blind." She was so absorbed in the magnificence of her diamond necklace for which she had been indebted to the Princess Garampi, that she did not hear the footfall of the men who were close behind her. They smiled, and pantomimed one to another as they watched her toying with her flashing jewels.
"What says Oblooria?" whispered Oolichuk when the rest of the party were listening to Eemerk's reply. "Oblooria goes with her brother and mother," answered that young lady, toying coquettishly with her sealskin tail.
I do not see why my stepfather should betray such anxiety on my account." "The general is greatly concerned about you," Weirmarsh said, seated cross-legged at his writing-chair, toying with his pen and looking into the girl's handsome face. "He wished me to see you. That is why I wrote to you." "Well," she said, wavering beneath his sharp glance, "I am here. What do you wish?"
"Well, it is a beauty!" he murmured, toying with it as a delighted boy might with a new plaything. "I thought you did not admire diamonds?" "Well, can't a person change their opinions? "Certainly, but " "Ah, that pain again!" exclaimed the engineer, clasping his stomach suddenly and groaning. "Oh, August, you are hurt, in pain, and trying to keep it from me!" she cried in alarm.
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