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Tell me," she cried, stamping her foot. "Why should I tell secrets to one who can read the future?" he asked banteringly. Chicarona's mood was changing. It was evident from her looks, either that she was defeated in the contest by this wily and resistless combatant or that she had succumbed to the temptation of his money. "How much will you gif vor zis chil'?" she asked.
The professor and his new assistant shook hands, while the latter felt she herself was being classified and labelled by those penetrating orbs. "I'm happy to meet Miss Olmstead; pray be seated. Don't hurry away, Professor Grandet; can't you sit down a while, also?" "Not zis morning, t'anks; I haf mooch to do. Well, Mees, I leaves you in good hands; au revoir."
"I am much obliged," Mr. Pericles bowed, "she is ruined. I have suspected. Ha! But I ask for a note! One!" This imperious signal drew her to another attempt. The deplorable sound that came sent Emilia sinking down with a groan. "Basta, basta! So, it is zis tale," said Mr. Pericles, after an observation of her huddled shape. "Did I not say "
Briskly and with the sound of a loud unpleasant sob the baroness gulped down the other half of the peach, and briskly she said: "Zere are no children in zis country, your Royal Highness." It was the custom for the princess to speak and hear only English in England. "But I see plenty of children when I drive," said the princess.
"Madam, I am sure I shall know your husband," said Mr. Gusher, returning with the paper representing the number of shares the little woman had paid her money for. "I shall be so happy to zee him when he shall come home." Mr. Gusher handed her the paper, saying: "Now, madam, you shall take good care of zis. Your money, it shall be perfectly safe."
"What have you got?" asked Nigel, doing his best to restrain a laugh. "A splendid Ornit'optera a day-flying moss'," said Verkimier as he cautiously rose, "vich mimics zee Trepsichrois mulciber. Ant zis very morning I caught von Leptocircus virescens, vich derives protection from mimicking zee habits ant appearance of a dragon-fly."
"Tollyvoddle, accept zis generous offer before it is too late!" "But," gasped the diffident nobleman, "they would find out the next time they saw me." "If the business is properly arranged, that would only be when you came out of church with her. Look here what fault have you to find with this scheme? I produce the desired impression, and either propose at once and am accepted "
So, you see, my friend, when I say I am brave and you say Miss Clinton is plucky, it is all because we have men about us who are so proud and conceited zat they will die before they will admit that they are not as helpless and as weak as we are in times like zis." "You may be right," he mused, struck by her argument.
Within fifteen minutes the carriage halted again, and before another silk store. The doctor said: "Ah, the palace of the Louvre beautiful, beautiful edifice! Does the Emperor Napoleon live here now, Ferguson?" "Ah, Doctor! You do jest; zis is not ze palace; we come there directly. But since we pass right by zis store, where is such beautiful silk " "Ah! I see, I see.
Pericles himself saw the sketch, and remarked critically, "It is zat I have more hair:" following which, he tapped the signal for an overture to commence, and at the first stroke took a run, with his elbows clapping exactly as the shrewd hand of Edward had drawn him. "See him zat fellow," Mr. Pericles said to Laura Tinley, pointing to the leader. "See him pose a maestro! zat leads zis tintamarre.
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