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Page 181 - Yes, dear,' he answered, divining her thought ; ' I am as happy as the day is long.' ' God keep you so ! ' she said, and they parted. When she and Sir Harry got into the carriage, she leant back and crossed her hands over her eyes, as if to shut out some painful vision. Sir Harry, fancying that she had a headache, began to talk in a cheerful strain. 'Well, little Emmy...
Page 40 - Just so,' said Sir Harry. Soon after this the young men took their leave. As they walked back Vane said to Falcon — • 'What do you think of Miss von Waldheim now?' ' I have not your rapid power of forming opinions, Arthur,' replied the other, ' and I therefore reserve my decision. What do you think ? ' ' I think she is not a girl to know all at once, though I believe I exaggerated her singularity last night. One's feelings are excited by the glare and the music, the hum and the clatter, and the...
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Page 251 - ... book. I am bound to say that on this occasion my suspicions may have been entirely unfounded, but not the less I fled precipitately, leaving the people of the house to think that my head was affected by my late accident. When I got back to town in the morning, I sought out my operatic friend, and said to him : " I suppose you dined with Mand — with your friend the captain, last night ? "
Page 228 - If there ever had been — as there was not — any danger of my forgetting it, frequent companionship with Charlie Morton would have served to keep me reminded of it. Neither woman nor ceiling could be more full of caprices than Morton, and the unexpected way in which he took up for a time pursuits between which and himself one could discern no kind of connection made the " fantaisie de plafond " explanation peculiarly applicable to him.
Page 235 - Morton by writing my name in it — it was an idea that he had lately started to keep an autograph record of his guests. The thing in itself surprised me little or not at all, for Morton was quite capable of taking up that or any other whim, but it did seem to me strange that Morton himself should have said not a word about this...