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Then she took up a book and sat down near the lamp, and after staying up for an hour she went to bed herself. "Eh bien, madame?" queried her maid, a Frenchwoman whom she had brought from Paris, as she unlaced her corset. "Eh bien, Justine," se replied, "he is a good deal older, but I fancy he is just the same good-natured fellow.

Hammett unlaced the shoe and took it off, and pulled out the inside sole, and underneath was a little flat package wrapped in tissue paper, and inside the tissue paper was the thousand dollars that McGivney had given Peter, and also the three hundred dollars which Peter had saved from Nelse Ackerman's present, and two hundred dollars which he had saved from his salary.

"You need not follow unless you choose." "Where you go, I go. Let me lead the way." But while he unlaced and kicked off his boots she had already grasped the iron bar and swung herself out over the abyss, feeling with her toes for a rung and a good foothold.

But as I stood looking at her for several moments in a state of perplexed indecision, and wondering what course to pursue, she began to moan as if in agony, and without further hesitation I decided to go ahead and do my best to make her position more comfortable. So I began by taking off her shoes. "What a superb foot!" mused I enthusiastically, as I unlaced and removed her pretty little shoes.

While she was purchasing two yards of malines the vocal Raymie Wutherspoon tiptoed up to her, his long sallow face bobbing, and he besought, "You've just got to come back to my department and see a pair of patent leather slippers I set aside for you." In a manner of more than sacerdotal reverence he unlaced her boots, tucked her skirt about her ankles, slid on the slippers. She took them.

But now, Henry, my boy, you may understand why the Mistresses Vaughan always breakfasted in their own rooms; they never chose to appear but in their full dress, and were glad to get an hour or two every morning unlaced, and without their hoops. "About noon they all came swimming and sailing down into a large saloon, where they spent the rest of their morning.

"Wife," said he, "if all the devils in Christendom were after me it would not keep me awake. I must sleep for half-an-hour." "Sleep, sleep, my lord; I will take the watch," said Isoult, longing to serve him. He unlaced his helm and body-armour without more ado, and laid his head in the girl's lap.

And within a while Sir Percivale had slain all that would withstand him; for Sir Percivale dealt so his strokes that were so rude that there durst no man abide him. And within a while Sir Aglovale had Sir Goodewin at the earth, and there he unlaced his helm, and struck off his head.

They unlaced her, and sprinkled her face with cold water; but far from coming to her senses, the fulness of her congested bosom, her total insensibility, and the absence of all pulse gave such mortal indications, that the servants began imprudently to cry out that she was dead.

Hundreds and thousands of men were there together, and as the night advanced the low roar rose and fell, and lulled away to come again strange, sad, hideous, mirthful. For a long time Allie could not sleep. Next morning Durade called her. When she unlaced the canvas flaps, it was to see the sun high and to hear the bustle of work all about her.