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And Nita seems not to like it too ah, Nita! She's as good as gold as good! ten million times better than the finest gold. I wonder why that queer careworn look comes over her angel face when she hears me say that I've been having a game of billiards?
"I? I?" replied M. de Bois, trying to speak calmly; but, finding the attempt in vain, he burst forth: "Yes, it is but too true; I love her with my whole soul; I love her passionately; love her despairingly, ay, despairingly!" "And why despairingly?" "Alas! she is so rich!" he answered, in a tone of chagrin. "True, she is encumbered with a large and un-encumbered estate."
"I remember now seeing her lean over the railing to adjust the old lady's shawl." With a start, Caroline West turned a tragic gaze upon the speaker. "You think me guilty of all because of what I did last night?" "Why shouldn't I?" "And you, Anna?" "Alicia has my sympathy," murmured Miss Benedict. Yet the wild girl persisted. "But I have told you my provocation.
At least they are people of our own rank and standing in society, and we can understand what they talk about." "But what do the words mean?" Mrs. Lloyd asked. "Why mother," said Mrs. Bartholomew, "you have read them a thousand times. They mean what they always did." "I don't think I ever raised the question till this minute," said Mrs. Lloyd. "In fact, I don't think I knew the words were there.
There's a providence which looks after that sort. He's making for the gate. He's hardly limping." "But where are my men?" "Why, they're all on the staircase, in the house, brought here by the shots, seeing to the wounded " "Oh, the demon!" muttered the Prefect. "He's played a masterly game!" Gaston Sauverand, in fact, was escaping unmolested. "Stop him! Stop him!" roared M. Desmalions.
"And why should not letters change?" she asked, abruptly; and I saw her eyes look out dreamily, as if at something I did not see. "The letter clothes the spirit; and the spirit gives life to the form. A face grows lovely or unlovely with the spirit that lies behind it. I cannot say if there be a spirit in such things. Yet what we have worn we give a value to. It has an expression in our eyes.
I'm cooking 'em to make 'em taste like chicken, and it's time they were all back to mess. Which way did my old man go?" "Climbed up yonder. Said he knowed there'd be a house up somewheres there." "And why didn't you go with him, sir?" said Mrs Corporal Beane. "Might have found a melon or some oranges." "Not me," grumbled the boy. "Frenchies don't leave nothing: hungry beggars. Murd'rin' wermin.
Why, I never saw such a sight as you. You come down from London; you play hide and seek about your relation's house; and here, when you do condescend to step in eh? how is it? You ain't, I hope, ruined, Tony, are ye?" Rhoda stood over her uncle to conceal him. "He shall not speak till he has had some rest. And yes, mother, he shall have some warm tea upstairs in bed. Boil some water.
Believe me, madam, without offence I'm not so uneducated and depraved as not to understand that Russia can boast of a great fable-writer, Krylov, to whom the Minister of Education has raised a monument in the Summer Gardens for the diversion of the young. Here, madam, you ask me why? The answer is at the end of this fable, in letters of fire." "Read your fable."
"You will like it," said Bunny with confidence. "I wonder," said Toby with her chin in the air. Bunny surpassed himself that afternoon. Wherever he went, success seemed to follow, and shouts of applause reached him from all quarters. "That young fellow is a positive genius," commented General Melrose, who had a keen eye for the game. "He ought to be in the Service. Why isn't he, Mrs. Bolton?"
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