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"But now I remember! He left the house just as we were sitting down to the dinner. He went to get his wedding-gift." "But wasn't he a friend of the General's? Wasn't he a partner of Don Timoteo's?" "Yes, he made himself a partner in order to strike the blow and kill all the Spaniards." "Aha!" cried Sensia. "Now I understand!" "What?" "You didn't want to believe Aunt Tentay.
The light of an unseen candle made her known at a glance; she had been here since the previous evening, as I knew, though it chanced that I had not seen her; Oliver's best wedding-gift, the slave maid whom I had seen with Charlotte in the curtained wagon at Gallatin. I stole out to her; she courtesied.
Patsy's hands slipped from his shoulders; she clasped them together in sudden intensity. "Haven't ye any curiosity at all to know what fetched me after ye?" "Yes. But there is to-morrow and all the days after to tell me." "No, there is just to-day. The telling of it is the only wedding-gift I have for ye, dear lad. I was with Marjorie Schuyler in the den that day you came to her and told her."
He would give, as a wedding-gift to the Tzigana, the most beautiful diamonds in the world, those famous Zilah diamonds, which Prince Joseph had once placed disdainfully upon his hussar's uniform when he charged the Prussian cuirassiers of Ziethen, sure of escaping the sabre cuts, and not losing a single one of the stones during the combat.
I should encourage you to be always exactly as you are a radiant, irresistible member of the upper middle-class, with a certain freedom of manner acquired through a life of peculiar liberty. Can you guess what would be my principal wedding-gift to you? Meg Speedwell had her dairy.
Maggie had listened with an interest that wore all the expression of candour. "Oh, you left it for me. But what did you take?" He looked at her; first as if he were trying to remember, then as if he might have been trying to forget. "Nothing, I think at that place." "What did you take then at any other? What did you get me since that was your aim and end for a wedding-gift?"
"Now, Tobe, one thing more, here 's my trunk; put it on your wagon and drop it off at the station on your way through town. That's it. Good-bye, old fellow; my regards to the madam I hope she 'll be pleased with my wedding-gift." Tobe buried Checker's hand in his great horny palm. "Mr.
This letter contained, in three lines, a desire that her dear niece would buy something with the inclosed, and accept it as a wedding-gift, with the tenderest wishes for her life-long happiness, from the undersigned. "The inclosed" fell on the floor, and Laura picked it up. "Fifty dollars! hum! Metropolitan Bank." "Oh, now, that is charming! Good old soul she is!" "Yes. Very well.
Look at it when your pride struggles with your heart. Perhaps the sight of it may strengthen you. Take it, not as the present of a cardinal, or an archbishop, but as the wedding-gift of an old man who once was young, and once knew Nora Blake." "A wedding-gift?" exclaimed Lady Nora. "What man would ever marry such a wretch as I?" "Nora!" cried the earl; and he held out his arms.
I had that three years ago with a racer, and again with a barge which I fitted up with a twenty horse-power motor, and used for a whole summer, after which, in a generous mood, I gave her as a wedding-gift to my chauffeur, whose bride's greatest ambition was for barge-life.
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