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Carr; and he got up, raising his shoulders and squaring his elbows, and took a few mincing steps across the room. Katy couldn't help laughing, it was so funny, and so like Imogen. Then Papa sat down again and drew her close to him. "My dear," he said, "you're an affectionate child, and I'm glad of it. But there is such a thing as throwing away one's affection.
Bellarius entered the cave first, and seeing Imogen, stopped them, saying: 'Come not in yet; it eats our victuals, or I should think it was a fairy. 'What is the matter, sir? said the young men. 'By Jupiter, said Bellarius again, 'there is an angel in the cave, or if not, an earthly paragon. So beautiful did Imogen look in her boy's apparel.
"Only the truly inferior could feel inferiority, since they get the real side of friendship," said Imogen, with gentle authority. "And I can't think that, in our sense of the word, the real side is given with you. There is conscious condescension, conscious adaptation to a standard supposed lower."
Imogen and Sarah Lawson, the two elderly single sisters whom Elmira Edwards sought in Granby that day, were in a way happier than she, all flushed with her hope of young love, for they held in certain tenure that which they had. They were sitting stitching on fine linen shirts in the little kitchen of the cottage house in which they had been born.
The Moorish dress would take so long to arrange. Wouldn't Imogen Thoresby like the part? She was only in the "Three Fishers." Imogen and Jeannie met her as she came in. "It is just you I wanted to find," cried Leslie, sealing her warm impulse with immediate act. "Will you be Zorayda, Imogen, with Jeannie and Elinor, you know? I've got so much to do without.
"Dear Annie is always doing the unexpected. She looks very well." "Yes, dear Annie is quite stout, for her," said Jane. "I think she is thinner than I have ever seen her, and the rest of you look like stuffed geese," said Benny, rudely. Imogen turned upon him in dignified wrath. "Benny, you insult your sisters," said she.
"I must see about his clothes," she said to Imogen; "I can't have him going up to Oxford all anyhow. Those boys are so particular." "Val's got heaps of things," Imogen answered. "I know; but they want overhauling. I hope he'll come." "He'll come like a shot, Mother. But he'll probably skew his Exam." "I can't help that," said Winifred. "I want him."
Though he be hemmed in with guards behind guards; though his impious mansion strike its foundations deep to the centre, and rear its head above the clouds; though all the powers of hell combine on his side, I will search him out, I will penetrate into his most hidden recess. I can but die. Oh, if I am to be deprived of Imogen, how sweet, how solacing is the thought of death!
Imogen is so sweet and grateful and demonstrative that it would astonish you. She is like a different girl. I really think she has grown to love me." "I should say that nothing was more probable. But don't let's talk of Imogen now. I want you all to myself." "This is too delicious!" said Elsie, when she had finished reading this letter.
He and Leslie, with Etty Thoresby, against Imogen and the Haddens, swept triumphantly around the course, and came in to the stake, before there had been even a "rover" upon the other side. Except, indeed, as they were sent roving, away off over the bank and down the road, from the sloping, uneven ground, the most extraordinary field, in truth, on which croquet was ever attempted.
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