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Again the ladies were not at home, but Mr. Vancourt Henniker came out and smoked a cigar with his customer on the piazza. The talk was pointedly of business, and the banker was urbanely gracious and mildly inquisitive. Would there be a consolidation of the allied iron industries of Gordonia when the Farleys should return? Mr.
The bald-headed man coughed urbanely, and begged to know her name. 'Miss. Lord of Grove Lane. Immediately his countenance changed from deprecating solemnity to a broad smile of recognition. 'Miss. Lord! Oh, to be sure; I will give you the address at once. Pray pardon my questions; we have to be so very careful. So many people desire private interviews with Miss. French.
In another five minutes he had rejoined his daughter, looking more like the man who urbanely presided over the not always contented shareholders' meetings. He realized, however, that he had a slightly difficult task before him. "You seem to take the news rather badly, father," said the girl. Deringham smiled deprecatingly. "I have not been quite so well lately, and it upset me a trifle," said he.
Therefore she said to him earnestly now: "I thank you, citizen, for your solicitude on my behalf, but you will understand, I think, that my visit to the prisoner has been almost more than I could bear. I cannot tell you at this moment whether to-morrow I should be in a fit state to repeat it." "As you please," he replied urbanely. "But I pray you to remember one thing, and that is "
"And, for aught I know," added he, "she is so at this moment." "You are cruel!" said Mauleverer, disconcerted. "I trust not, for the sake of my continued addresses." "My dear lord," said Brandon, urbanely taking the courtier's hand, while the anguis in herba of his sneer played around his compressed lips, "my dear lord, we are old friends, and need not deceive each other.
And I know just how it will be, as soon as things have got into a regular course again. Mr. Mallard hates disturbance and agitation. Of course he has avoided seeing Cecily as yet; imagine his exasperated face if he became involved in a 'scene'!" And Mrs. Lessingham laughed urbanely. A short and troubled sleep at night's heaviest; then long waiting for the first glimmer of dawn.
I shall tear it down, nevertheless. I shall do what I please with what is my own." Bennington balanced on his heels. "The law is there." "I shall break it, if need says must," urbanely. Donnelly surveyed the end of his dead cigar. "The men will become violent." "Their violence will in no wise hinder me, so long as they confine it to the shops.
The other took the card from his hand, read it in a rapid glance, looked again at Newman from head to foot, hesitated a moment, and then said, gravely but urbanely, "Madame de Cintre is not at home." The younger man made a gesture, and then, turning to Newman, "I am very sorry, sir," he said. Newman gave him a friendly nod, to show that he bore him no malice, and retraced his steps.
"Well, good-afternoon, Miss Lining," said Jack, who never suffered, as Eleanor and I sometimes did, from a difficulty in getting away from a cottage. "Thank you very much. Have you heard from your sister at Buxton lately?" "Last week, sir," said Miss Lining. "And how is she?" said Jack urbanely.
"She must choose a name and a fortune and she will!" "She will do exactly as her inclination prompts! She will marry the man who pleases her, if he has n't a dollar! I know her better than you." The Cavaliere turned a little paler than usual, and smiled more urbanely. "No, no, my dear young man, you do not know her better than I. You have not watched her, day by day, for twenty years.
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