Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: August 16, 2024
"Will you explain at once, sir," Philippa demanded, "what you mean by forcing your way into my house in this extraordinary fashion, and by locking that door?" "I am most anxious to do so," was the prompt reply. "I am correct, of course, in my first surmise that you are Lady Cranston and you Miss Fairclough?" he added, bowing ceremoniously to both of them. "A very great pleasure!
This is no way to greet your father with big tears in your eyes!" Colonel Baxter shook hands ceremoniously with Auntie Gibbs, introduced the stranger, Mr. Provost, the curator of an art museum in the west, and had a cheery word for each of the young people.
They reached the door, and as she withdrew her hand from his arm, he took it and ceremoniously kissed her gloved fingers, while she smiled graciously. Then he knocked three times, and presently the shuffling of Eudaldo's slippers was heard within, and the old servant opened sleepily.
Lord Borodaile, though always ceremoniously civil, was immovably distant; and avoided as well as he was able Clarence's insinuating approaches and address. To add to his indisposition to increase his acquaintance with Linden, a friend of his, a captain in the Guards, once asked him who that Mr. Linden was? and, on his lordship's replying that he did not know, Mr.
'Where is the Senorita Barenna? asked the General. 'She is downstairs commanding his Excellency's soldiers to let her pass. 'You go down, my friend, and bring her here. Then take that door yourself. Concepcion bowed ceremoniously and withdrew. He might have been an ambassador, and his salutation was worthy of an Imperial Court.
Ashe ceremoniously invited them to be his guests at a theatre party that night. "We'll have to make one evening dress do duty while we are here, Mabel. We had room in our suit cases for only one, and didn't want to bring trunks," explained Grace, as they lingered in the hall to talk for a moment before going to their rooms to dress.
He detested, he said, noise and display. The necessary cost of the war was quite heavy enough. He hoped that his kind fellow townsmen would consider him as a neighbour, born and bred among them, and would not pay him so bad a compliment as to treat him ceremoniously. But all his expostulations were vain.
Cheprakov, a very stout elderly lady, with slanting, Chinese eyes, sat by the window, in a big chair, knitting a stocking. She received me ceremoniously. "It is Pologniev, mother," said Cheprakov, introducing me. "He is going to work here." "Are you a nobleman?" she asked in a strange, unpleasant voice as though she had boiling fat in her throat. "Yes," I answered. "Sit down." The dinner was bad.
For these fishes are to serve as supper for the company, and the queen has ceremoniously invited her husband to an evening meal, which she herself will serve and prepare. The queen smiles still and is happy; her spinning-wheel is silent, but the wheel of fate is moving still. The king is no longer there. He has withdrawn into the mill to rest himself. And yet there he is not alone.
Wilfrid requested her to confide her hand to him. 'My hand is engaged, she said. Bowing ceremoniously, Wilfrid passed on, and Vittoria, with Carlo and Luciano and her maid Giacinta, followed between files of bayonets through the dusky passages, and downstairs into the night air. Vittoria spoke in Carlo's ear: 'I have been unkind to him. I had a great affection for him in England.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking