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But it turned out to be otherwise; for the Wenus produced from behind her superlatively radiant form a lump of slate which she had extracted from the coal-box. "Decepti estis, O Puteoli!" she said. "I beg your pardon," I replied; "but I fail to grasp your meaning."
'And he'd never known two young people more fitted by the gifts of nature to contribute to one another's 'appinesses. He had understood that Mars and Wenus always lived on the best of terms, and perhaps the present company would excuse him if he likened this 'appy young couple to them two 'eathen gods and goddesses.
I remember how I sat under the table with patches of green and crimson swimming before my eyes. Grotesque and foolish as this may seem to the sober reader, it is absolutely true. Swears watched till one, and then he gave it up. He was full of speculations about the condition of Wenus. Swears' language was extremely sultry.
'Well, but you ARE Wenus, you know, said Mr Dennis, confidentially. 'No, I am not, good gentleman, answered Miggs, shaking her head with an air of self-denial which seemed to imply that she might be if she chose, but she hoped she knew better. 'No, I am not, good gentleman. Don't charge me with it.
"Why, he near killed ma Lassie!" cries Londesley. "And he did kill the Wexer!" "And Wan Tromp!" "And see pore old Wenus!" says John Swan, and pulls out that fair Amazon, battered almost past recognition, but a warrioress still. "That's Red Wull bloody be his end!" "And he laid ma Rasper by for nigh three weeks!" continues Tupper, pointing to the yet-unhealed scars on the neck of the big bobtail.
Frenzied with despair, I shot out an arm to arrest the upward transit of the nearest Wenus, when a strange thing occurred. "At last!" said a voice. I was startled. It was my wife, accompanied by Mrs.
In case they do not, let me add that Mary Griffin wore a blue peignoir which had seen better days, and Herbert Pearson's matches struck everywhere except on the box. With a mental flash we linked the Crinoline with the powder puffs on Wenus. Approaching it more nearly, we heard a hissing noise within, such as is made by an ostler, or Mr. Daimler grooming his motor car.
Elphinstone, my cousin's man, my mother, the widow of the landlord of the "Dog and Measles," Master Herodotus Tibbles in deep mourning, and the Artillery-man's brother from Beauchamp's little livery stables. I shot an appealing glance to the disappearing Wenus. She threw me a kiss. I threw her another. My wife took a step forward, and put her hand to my ear. I fell.
"But we cahn't, you know," said the lady with the fringed forehead; "Hagnes is gone on to New York, and there's nobody to do Wenus." "Yes, you know," demanded the first speaker, "oo's to do Wenus? "Bella's to do Wenus," said a third. There was an outcry at this, and "'Ow ever would she get herself up for 'Venus?" and "W'at a guy she'll look!" and "Nonsense!
Men like Quellen of Dresden watched the pale pink planet it is odd, by the way, that for countless centuries Wenus has been the star of Eve evening by evening growing alternately paler and pinker than a literary agent, but failed to interpret the extraordinary phenomena, resembling a series of powder puffs, which he observed issuing from the cardiac penumbra on the night of April 1st, 1902.
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