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He was dragging on his season wretchedly with half salaries, small operas, feeble old comedies, and his ballet company; and everybody was looking out for the day when he should appear in the Gazette.
The Vaudois were wretchedly poor, and had been incessantly the objects of aggression and persecution. In January 1655, a sudden determination was taken by the Turin government to make them conform to the catholic religion by force.
But for all her ready argument, Nancy was sometimes wretchedly unhappy. She had many a bitter cry about it all tears interrupted by the honking of motors in the road, and ended with a dash of powder, a cold towel pressed to hot eyes, and the cheerful fiction of a headache.
Mrs. was so glad to see me; she took hold of me by both hands. She said: "My dear child, you are improving. You were wretchedly thin when I saw you last. Now you are almost as well-developed as your sister. I think you are prettier than your sister." Mr. didn't agree to that. He and his wife began to dispute about me before my face. I do call that an aggravating thing to endure.
"And I feel confident of Hope's; so here is the case, pretty well made out between us." Mrs Grey was in raptures for a moment; but she then resumed her system of mysterious tokens. She shook her head, and owned that she had reason to think her husband was mistaken. "Well, just observe them the next time they are together; that is all." "And my poor Hester looks wretchedly, Mr Grey.
I think Vigne is very fortunate, Bailey is as nice as possible; and, as he said, it isn't as if you knew nothing of the Sandbys; they are as dignified as the Lowries." An expression she had never before seen hardened his countenance into a sarcasm that travestied his customary humor. "You realize, of course, that except for what his father gives him young Sandby is wretchedly poor.
I descended gingerly, holding as a guide a sodden painter which ended in a small boat, and conscious that I was collecting slime on cuffs and trousers. 'Hold up! shouted Davies, cheerfully, as I sat down suddenly near the bottom, with one foot in the water. I climbed wretchedly into the dinghy and awaited events.
But I can't speak till the coffee comes. Fraulein!" he besought a waitress going off with a tray near them. "Tell Lili, please, to bring me some coffee only coffee." He tried to make some talk about the weather, which was rainy, and the Marches helped him, but the poor endeavor lagged wretchedly in the interval between the ordering and the coming of the coffee.
He came in with his hand out, looking very pale, but smiling just as he used to smile, only more sadly. 'Don't reproach me, I said; 'I can't bear it. 'Reproach you! he said—and I shall never forget the tone of affectionate wonder with which it came, or the relief it was to me to hear it—'Reproach you! I know how you loved him. I broke down at that, and cried wretchedly.
He sat out three or four waltzes with her on the lawn, listening to the murmer of the sea, and talking very little. 'You are looking wretchedly ill to-night, Lesbia, he said, after a dismal silence. 'I am sorry that I should put you to shame by my bad looks, she answered, with that keen acidity of tone which indicates irritated nerves.
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