Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 19, 2025
His worthy act, however, was to light the sticks he kept built in the fireplace for such emergency. A flame arose, gradually revealing the black earthen floor, the swarm of refugees, and even the tear-suspending lashes of little children's eyes. La Vigne appeared, sitting with his hands in his hair.
But the territory which most certainly belonged to Praeneste, and which was at once the most valuable and the oldest of her possessions is the wide ridge now known as the Vigne di Loreto, along which runs the road to Marcigliano. Not only does this ridge lie most closely bound to Praeneste by nature, but it leads directly toward Velitrae, her most advantageous ally.
"No, no! Thanks all the same, I'm better left alone. Are you coming to the show to-night? The beautiful Miss de Vigne is going to sing." Eustace looked supercilious. "Is there anything that young lady can't do, I wonder? Her accomplishments are legion. She told me yesterday that she could play the guitar. She can also recite, play bridge, and take cricket scores.
"I thought you seemed to be getting on very well." Her eyes travelled across the room again to her late partner and the beautiful Miss de Vigne. She watched them intently for a few seconds. "Poor Rose!" she said suddenly. Scott was watching her. "Isn't she a good dancer?" he asked. She turned back to him. "Oh yes, I believe she is. She always has plenty of partners anyway.
So I got down softly from my perch and made my way out of the yard, and, after fulfilling my part of the bargain with Rene, across to the Vigne d'Or and to my room, there to sit and mature the plan that of a sudden I had conceived. Dame!
I'm not greatly taken with the man myself," declared Colonel de Vigne. "He is too overbearing. At the same time," again his eyes followed his wife's, "he would no doubt be a considerable catch." "I don't mean Dinah to have Sir Eustace," said Lady Grace very decidedly. "It would be most unsuitable. Yes, what is it?" as a low knock came at the door. "Come in!"
Not that I mean to apply either term to you by any means. Your father's daughter could not be other than a lady, even if she tried, but I must confess your manners have deteriorated somewhat since you went into voluntary banishment among those outlandish people. I have heard no very good account of this old La Vigne who died in debt, it seems, and left his children beggars.
Linda replied: "I said that I was certain you would consent." She halted his exasperated gesture. "You think Vigne is nothing but a child, and yet she is as old as I was at our wedding. My mother was no older when Bartram Lowrie married her.
"I'll risk it if you will." She turned towards him with a small, confidential gesture. "What about Rose de Vigne?" she said. "Don't you want to dance with her?" "Oh, presently," he said. "She'll keep." Dinah broke into her high, sweet laugh. "And what about all my other partners?" she said, with more assurance. He bent to her. "They must keep too.
The dream in which La Vigne had prophesied my failure flashed over me like lightning, and my knees trembled beneath me, yet I still clung spasmodically to the cord I held, and with such desperate force that, when Gregory pushed against the door, he believed it latched within, and so desisted from further effort. "Dark as Erebus," he muttered, "and on such a night! Confound such hospitality!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking