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"Well," said Martin, his face growing hotter with every word of explanation, "you have a wife and we have a mutual friend in our little nurse, and that's how I learned. And so I thought I'd be on hand anyway. You remember I met your sister up at your Highland home with the unpronounceable name." "Ah, yes! Cuagh Oir. Dear old spot!" said Cameron reminiscently.
It seemed so utterly imbecile and babyish to him, he had got so far away from innocence and smiles and childhood himself, that the sight of them irritated him. The young Indian girl had a long and almost unpronounceable name. Père Ignace had baptized her Marie, and the new name had gradually taken the place of the old.
Lord Manorwater took in Miss Afflint, and Alice fell to the dark man with the monosyllabic name. He had a way of bowing over his hand which slightly repelled the girl, who had no taste for elaborate manners. His first question, too, displeased her. He asked her if she was one of the Wisharts of some unpronounceable place. She replied briefly that she did not know.
It was quite unpronounceable and, except that it ended, of course, with a double f, equally impossible to spell. I told him frankly at the beginning I should call him by his Christian name, which fortunately was Nicholas. He was very nice about it." "I remember him distinctly," said the Minor Poet. "A charming man." "He was equally charmed with you," replied the Woman of the World.
"Would you oppose your feeble knowledge to the infinite intelligence of the Unmistakable? A word, and you are lost forever." The Boy breathed a silent prayer, and, handing a sealed package to the Seer, begged him to hand it to his father in case of his premature decease. "You have sent for me," hissed the Presence. "Behold me, Apokatharticon, the Unpronounceable.
Archie and childish illnesses. The Venus di Milo puzzled her; she could not see why people thought her so beautiful. She told herself over and over that she did not think the Apollo Belvedere "at all handsome." Better than anything else she liked a great equestrian statue of an evil, cruel-looking general with an unpronounceable name.
In charge of the machine shop were two Polish officers whose names to me were both unpronounceable and unspellable and they oversaw the modifications. I believe their hearts were not in the job, they resented being told what to do even via drawings by a lowly craftsman but since the brigadier had ordained it they had to comply.
"And I do hope the fire-engines arrived in time." "A tale-bearer revealeth secrets; but a man of understanding holdeth his peace." It was the night of the full moon. It was also the night of the cotillon given by a certain princelet of unpronounceable name and great wealth, who hailed from one of those countries in Europe where quasi-royalties abound.
Just at this moment, his Majesty was in gracious converse with a lady on his right, a foreign princess, of an ancient, unpronounceable title, a thin, colorless head and form, overloaded with immemorial family-jewels, a mere frame of a woman, to hang brilliants upon. She was one shine and shiver of diamonds, from head to foot; she palpitated light, like a glow-worm.
How is it called?" asked Duprez eagerly. "Njedegorze." The Frenchman shrugged his shoulders. "I give it up!" he said smilingly. "Mademoiselle Gueldmar, if anything happens to me at this cascade with the name unpronounceable, you will again be my doctor, will you not?" Thelma laughed as she shook hands with him.
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