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After a few minutes' pause, I continue: "The other day I was told of a little girl who attended a distribution of prizes given by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "She had won, you must know, a book as a reward for writing the best essay on the subject given, and, with the other successful children, was undergoing a vivâ voce examination.
'Do you want something to eat? Hadrian looked round as if for the meal. 'I don't mind, he said. 'What shall you have egg and bacon? asked Emmie shortly. 'Yes, I don't mind, said Hadrian. The sisters went down to the kitchen, and sent the servant to finish the stairs. 'Isn't he altered? said Matilda, sotto voce. 'Isn't he! said Cousin Emmie. 'What a little man!
With a supreme effort he pulled himself together and embraced the girl. "Josie," he said earnestly, "I I'm going to try to be a good husband to you.... And that," he concluded, sotto voce, "wasn't in the agreement!" She held him to her passionately. "Dearest, I'm so glad!" "It makes me very happy to know you are, Josie," he murmured miserably.
Sharpington, formalities were unnecessary; but my father observed, sotto voce, in reply, and in the plain vernacular of the day, what in modern times would have been more figuratively expressed, namely, "Did not the gospel-trumpeters wish they might get it!"
He immediately offered him the rest of the day off, insisting that after such an experience he should rest quietly for a few hours. "By the way," he remarked sotto voce, "those two young men over there at the head of the stairs are newspaper reporters. One has a camera. I imagine they want to get a story on your morning's sensations." Bob had not yet met Mr.
"I want you to avoid that fellow, Alicia," he growled sotto voce, as he intercepted a bright matutinal smile that the fair Alicia sent as a morning greeting to Girard, who had just entered and taken his seat at a distance. "We know nothing under heaven about his people, and he himself has the repute of being a desperate gambler." His wife raised significant eyebrows.
I was very nearly being thrown out of my saddle." "And how we had to wait for our dinner at Gaza till the camels came up?" And Mr. M'Gabbery, urging on his horse, brought him up once more abreast with that of Miss Waddington. "I shall soon have as great a horror of Gaza as Samson had," said she, sotto voce. "I almost feel myself already in bonds under Philistian yoke whenever it is mentioned."
In this emergency the seneschal cast his despairing eyes around; and not in vain. A hopeful light shot into them. "Here is this," said he, sotto voce. "Surely this will serve: 'tis altogether apelike, doublet and hose apart." "Nay," said the chancellor peevishly, "the Princess Marie would hang us. She doteth on this." Now this was our friend Giles, strutting, all unconscious, in cloth of gold.
Aren't these derivations too awful for anything?" she added sotto voce. "I don't believe I know one of them." "Buck up!" whispered Merle with scant sympathy. "It's all very well to say 'buck up'! You don't know what it is to feel faint. You're as strong as a horse. I'm really not fit to stand about!" "Shall I ask Miss Fanny to let you go in and lie down?" "I wish you would!
Norton, who, sotto voce, was telling interesting anecdotes of an English crim. con., which then occupied the attention of the fashionable world. Mrs. Norton had letters from the best authorities in London, which she was entreated by her auditors to read to them. Mrs.
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