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From house to house, then, we went, at first vaingloriously, in the spaces about the Minster, and then meekly into any side street, wherever the legend of Apartments showed itself in a transom. At last, the second day, after being denied at seven successive houses, we found quite the refuge we wanted in the Bootham, which means very much more than the ignorant reader can imagine.
He saw that she thought so, and perhaps it made him hobble slightly more, not vaingloriously, but because he was such an artist. He ceased to be an artist suddenly, however, when Grizel made this unexpected remark: "How vain you are!" Tommy sat down, quite pale. "Did you come here to say that to me, Grizel?" he inquired, and she nodded frankly over her high collar of fur.
We've got fifteen hundred reservists downstairs, and a cargo of contraband. What do you know about that as a prize for a submarine?" "Well," I said vaingloriously. "I can swim." My eyes were wandering, for the girl in the fur coat had entered, with the dark, watchful-eyed man was it pure coincidence? close behind. The steward ushered her to a table; the man followed at her heels.
The time was afternoon, the season September, and the west was vaingloriously justifying the younger man's analogy of a gigantic Spanish omelette. Meanwhile, the younger man declaimed in a high-pitched pleasant voice, wherein there was, as always, the elusive suggestion of a stutter.
I am so much bigger than you are that you can't possibly drive me off. I don't mean to interfere or to ask questions, or to bother you. But I vow I'm coming with you if I cling to the running-board!" Her lashes fluttered as she racked her brains for new protests. "The car is a French make," she urged, "which you couldn't drive " "I can drive any car with four wheels!" I exclaimed vaingloriously.
Upon reflection, he sold his mother's sewing-machine it was an old machine and didn't bring much and bought enough to cover himself with. "I wish I'd been born with my clothes on me, like you were," he confided to the Red Admiral. "Gee, you're lucky!" The Red Admiral flirted his fine coat vaingloriously. He didn't have to worry about trousers, nor yet shoes for his six feet!
He bounded up to his room vaingloriously remarking, "I'm there with the ancestors. I was brought up in the handsome city of Schoenstrom, which was founded by a colony of Vermont Yankees, headed by Herman Skumautz. I was never allowed to play with the Dutch kids, and " He opened the door. " the Schoenstrom minister taught me Greek and was my bosom frien' " He stopped with his heart in his ankles.
He had the satisfaction of seeing the Pilgrim come within ten feet of them, hover there scowling for a minute or two and then retreat. "He ain't forgot the licking I gave him," thought Billy vaingloriously, and hid a smile in the delectable softness of a wedge of cake with some kind of creamy filling. "I made that cake," announced Miss Bridger over her shoulder when she saw what he was eating.
The two women began to talk, and, without knowing why, Madame d'Hardermes questioned the nurse, asked her where she came from, and where she was taking the little thing to. The other, rather flattered that Suzanne admired the child and took an interest in it, replied, somewhat vaingloriously, that she lived at Bois-le-Roy, and that her husband was a wagoner.
I had suffered so much that my power of quick decision, on which I'd so often prided myself vaingloriously, seemed gone. "It is Raoul," I said. "What shall I do?" "Let him in, of course, and introduce me. Don't act as if you were afraid.
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