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The last remark made by Miss De Voe to her fire resulted, after a few days, in Peter's receiving a formal dinner invitation, which he accepted with a promptness not to be surpassed by the best-bred diner-out. He regretted now his vamping of the old suit. Peter understood that he was in for quite another affair than the Avery, the Gallagher, or even the Purple dinner.
"I just knew, the moment I saw her, that she wasn't at all as that horrid old man tried to make us believe." "No," says I, "Mame's vamping was just practice stuff. A lot of it is like that, I expect." "But wasn't it odd," goes on Vee, "about her meeting the very man she'd liked from the first?" "Well, not so very," says I. "With that show window act she had the net spread kind of wide.
I don't even know what it's about." "You took the good time whilst you could get it, and now when you can't hope for anything more " She stopped short, and they faced each other with an antagonism that neither gave nor asked for quarter. They had always been enemies, and now that the gloves were off they were almost glad. "So that's my line. Cradle-snatching. Vamping the helpless infant!"
His voice was firmer, his cheeks were less pallid; and above all he was authoritative towards his present companion, whose ingenuity in vamping up a being for his ambitious experiments seemed about to be rewarded, like Frankenstein's, by his discomfiture at the hands of his own creature. 'What the devil are you doing here, I say? repeated De Stancy.
Remark, here, in this hasty and surreptitious edition, evidence of the great impression suddenly made by Shakespeare's "Hamlet." On its production it became at once so popular that a piratical publisher was at the trouble and expense of getting as much of the original as he could by unfair means, and vamping this up with inferior and older matter to meet the popular demand for reading copies.
The soldier confessed that his profession had often served as the cloak for terrorizing the poor and vamping up worthless accusations. The notoriously evil liver confessed that he had lain in wait for blood, and destroyed the innocent and helpless for gain or hate.
And it is a chance if there be wanting some quarrelsome persons that will shew their teeth, and pretend these fooleries are either too buffoon-like for a grave divine, or too satyrical for a meek christian, and so will exclaim against me as if I were vamping up some old farce, or acted anew the Lucian again with a peevish snarling at all things.
Several times every year I had to choose between mortally hurting her feelings, and watching her elaborate "vamping" through eight or ten costly reels. I had read many stories and seen a great many plays, in which the hero wakes up in the end, and we realize that we have been watching a dream. I remembered "Midsummer Night's Dream," and also "Looking Backward."
Brimberly modestly, as, having placed bottle and glass upon the piano within convenient reach, he seated himself upon the stool, struck three or four stumbling chords and then, vamping an accompaniment a trifle monotonous as to bass, burst forth into song: "It was a rich merchant that in London did dwell, He had but one daughter, a beautiful gell, Which her name it was Dinah, scarce sixteen years old, She'd a very large fortune in silver and gold."
Mai Lakshmi knew. Why did you not say it then?" "Well ... so soon I wasn't sure ... I hoped going away might give us both a chance. It seemed the best I could do," he pleaded. "And there was Dyán. I'm not vamping up excuses, Arúna. If you hate me for hurting you so " "Roy you shall not say it!" she cried, roused at last. "Could I hate ... the heart in my own body!"
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