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And she rather liked him and was reluctant to hurt his feelings; for she knew instinctively he was very sensitive. Her eyes and lips softened winningly. "It's so good of you to think of me," she said. "You mean you you will come?" he cried, transported. "I shall be very glad." "That's that's awf'ly kind of you," he said huskily. "Now, do please find some way to get rid of me."

"You want a vote?" asked Janet, curiously, gazing at the pearl earrings. "Certainly I want one." "Why?" "Why?" repeated Mrs. Brocklehurst. "Yes. You must have everything you want." Even then the lady's sweet reasonableness did not desert her. She smiled winningly, displaying two small and even rows of teeth. "On principle, my dear.

First in German and then in English she explained the fearful uses of the Iron Maiden, she winningly illustrated the action of the racks and wheels on which men had been stretched and broken, and she sweetly vaunted a sword which had beheaded eight hundred persons.

The little music teacher flushed very red, but she managed to display something that might pass for surprise. "Come, dear," coaxed Billy, winningly. "Tell me about it. I'm so interested!" "But there isn't anything to tell really there isn't." "Who is he?" "He isn't anybody that is, he doesn't know he's anybody," amended Marie. Billy laughed softly. "Oh, doesn't he!

Arabella's rival presented herself most winningly. For some time, Emilia listened to her, with wonder that a tongue should be so glib on matters of no earthly interest. At last, Laura said in an undertone: "I am the bearer of a message from Mr. Pericles; do you walk at all in the garden?" Emilia read her look, and rose.

Lucy's eyes fixed sideways an instant. "I hope I don't frown and blush as I did?" she said, screwing her pliable brows up to him winningly, and he bent his cheek against hers, and murmured something delicious. "And we shall be separated for how many hours? one, two, three hours!" she pouted to his flatteries. "And then I shall come on board to receive my bride's congratulations."

What comfort there was in it we had in knowing that she was a favorite in the society of which we read such glowing descriptions, and that no one else bore its honors more winningly. It was not an easy life, with all its exactions and incessant movement.

Miss Ruth overhears him and draws me aside, and, putting her hand upon my arm winningly, she lifts her pretty face to mine and says, "Jasper, you will save them!" I am going ashore, and Captain Nepeen goes with me. At ten o'clock. We put off a boat at ten o'clock and rowed straight for the open beach. It was a gloriously clear night, with a heaven of blazing stars and a sea like flowing silver.

He smiled winningly on the Thread Man. "Ye know, Mister O'Khayam," he said, "at the present time you are located in one of the wooliest parts of the wild East. I don't suppose anything woolier could be found on the plains of Nebraska where I am reliably informed they've stuck up a pole and labeled it the cinter of the United States.

The General smiled winningly and intently, to show her that he prized her, and would not let her escape his eulogies. 'Marked, in this way, dear madam, that you think of my daughter's future more than I. I say, more than her father himself does. I know I ought to speak more warmly, I feel warmly.

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