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"It'th a fine morning, Mr. Gourlay," he simpered. "There's noathing wrong with the morning," grunted Gourlay, as if there was something wrong with the Deacon. "We wath wanting to thee ye on a very important matter, Mithter Gourlay," lisped the Deacon, smiling up at the big man's face, with his head on one side, and rubbing his fingers in front of him.
Nugent, thankful for his own escape, was in a singularly merciful mood. "All this sounds as though you are going to be married," he said, turning to Mrs. Silk with a polite smile. The widow simpered and looked down, thereby affording Mr.
"Céline," simpered Miss Arthur, while the damsel addressed was brushing out her mistress's hair, preparatory to building it into a French wonder; "Céline, I may be wrong in talking so freely to you about myself and my my friends, but I observe that you never presume in the least " "Oh, mademoiselle, I could never do that!" cooed the girl, with wicked double meaning.
"They're all alike as two pears only some of 'em are green, and the others a different colour." "That's your business," said Norton summing up; "now what's the good of it, Dick?" "Fun. What's the good of anything?" "To be sure," said the Judge. "Julie Simpson?" But Julie wriggled and simpered, and could not be got to express herself otherwise.
Lady Rowley simpered, and declared that nothing could be more proper, and expressed a hope that Olivia would like England. Caroline Spalding, having still in her mind the trouble that had brought her to Nora, had not much to say about this. "If she goes again to England I am sure she will like it," replied Miss Spalding. "But of course she is going," said Lady Rowley.
He simpered and looked pleased and did not seem to be at all disgusted by their friend's slang, and yet had she talked of "awfully swell" parties, he would, she was well aware, have rebuked her seriously. Miss Houghton Hetta Houghton was the first to arrive, and she somewhat startled Mary by the gorgeous glories of her dress, though Mrs.
The quartette party sat downstairs with open windows, each of the three seniors pulling gravely at a long church-warden, and the junior pretending to look at an old-fashioned book of beauty, in which a number of impossible ladies simpered on the observer from bowers of painted foliage.
He intended to quit the room now unnoticed, but was unfortunate enough to upset a chair as he turned from the table. This brought a chorus of exclamations from the women, who chattering rushed quickly toward him. "What do you think of my naughty boy, Willie?" simpered the widow. "He dragged me quite to the window."
Nevertheless, the colonel was not vanquished. Falling back into an attitude of respectful admiration, he pointed out a marvelous resemblance to the "Madonna and Child." Mrs. Tretherick simpered, but did not dislodge Carry as before. There was an awkward pause for a moment; and then Mrs. Tretherick, motioning significantly to the child, said in a whisper: "Go now.
When the sons were silent, or talking among themselves, the old dame told me about her youth: how she was only seventeen years old at the time of the war; how the English were the most handsome of all the soldiers, how the Turks were the most lazy and the most brutal, how the French and the Italians simpered; how the English soldiers were loved by the Greek girls, how they were also more generous than the other troops and gave freely clothes and tea and sugar and whatever was needed in the cottages and asked no money for it whatever; how in these days the little children played with the cannon-balls, rolling them over the moors and up the village street all manner of gossip the good old lady told me, beguiling the hours and my ears till it was bedtime.
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