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By the light of a single candle she undressed herself hastily, said her prayers punctiliously, and got into bed, with an unexpected relief at finding herself still occupying it alone. Then she fell asleep and dreamed of Demorest.
She had a brief and exceedingly banal interview with Helen, and another with Andrew. And an interval having elapsed, Andrew was observed to approach Helen and ask her for a polka. Helen punctiliously accepted. And he led her out. The outraged gods of social decorum were appeased, and the reputations of Mrs. Prockter and her parties stood as high as ever. It was well and diplomatically done.
His despatches show how indefatigably he toiled for the interests, and how punctiliously he guarded the dignity, of the prince by whom he imagined that he had been unjustly and unkindly treated. The embassy was the most magnificent that England had ever sent to any foreign court.
When Lesley, two hundred years ago, related so punctiliously, that a hundred hen eggs, new laid, were sold in the Islands for a peny, he supposed that no inference could possibly follow, but that eggs were in great abundance.
The men clicked their heels punctiliously and removed their headgear, and the captain, passing down the front rank with his sword trailing on the deck behind him, began his inspection. "What is your name, my man?" he inquired condescendingly, halting opposite to a burly bearded able seaman. "Joseph Smith, sir." "I seem to remember your face," said the commander. "Yes, sir.
They ran in and out or after a while began to stay away and not show up for weeks. "He" was different so different that it was queer. Queer it certainly was that he really came to the place very seldom. Wherever they met, it didn't noticeably often happen in the slice of a house. He came as if he were a visitor. He took no liberties. Everything was punctiliously referred to Mrs. Gareth-Lawless.
His lips were tightly pressed. His oaths and his anguish were in his soul, but unuttered. "Thanks very much... It's very kind of you." We gathered up our note-books and were punctiliously polite. His door banged. Phillips was first at his typewriter, working it like a machine-gun, in short, furious spasms of word-fire.
After this, for the credit of our country, which stands so high in the East, and should be so punctiliously tended by all Englishmen, we are sorry to record that Dr.
The Countess Dagmar found it difficult at first to meet the eye of the new guard, but he was so punctiliously oblivious that her courage was restored. She even went so far as to whisper in Beverly's ear that he did not remember her face, and probably would not recognize Yetive as one of the eavesdroppers.
I shall find a bed somewhere, and sleep a while longer. Odds life! how seedy lack of sleep doth make a man! Present my compliments to the ladies, will you?" Drayton sank back on the grass as he spoke. "With pleasure, sir," answered the other. Punctiliously they saluted, and Clifford strode back to the house. John Drayton laughed softly.
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