The colonel, by the author of 'The perils of fashion'.1853 |
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... dinners , " as she called them . Re - assured by the first anxious glance he * had cast towards her , St. Colmo saw there was nothing to fear from any want of discre- tion . Miss Mavesyn returned his greeting with a self - possession ...
... dinners , " as she called them . Re - assured by the first anxious glance he * had cast towards her , St. Colmo saw there was nothing to fear from any want of discre- tion . Miss Mavesyn returned his greeting with a self - possession ...
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... dinner was trifling enough ; consisting merely of Miss Villaroy telling Mr. Colyton it always rained in Devonshire ; and he in his turn informing her that such was usually the case in hilly countries . Their thoughts of each other had ...
... dinner was trifling enough ; consisting merely of Miss Villaroy telling Mr. Colyton it always rained in Devonshire ; and he in his turn informing her that such was usually the case in hilly countries . Their thoughts of each other had ...
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... dinner was finished . An awkward , but magnificently - attired footman , had been dropping his cold aiguillettes on all the ladies ' shoulders , to their infinite discomfort , while engaged in the task of removing the crumbs from the ...
... dinner was finished . An awkward , but magnificently - attired footman , had been dropping his cold aiguillettes on all the ladies ' shoulders , to their infinite discomfort , while engaged in the task of removing the crumbs from the ...
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... dinner . " This was said rather as a soliloquy , but it excited a mur- mur of applause round the court , similar to that one sometimes hears after a successful feat of Mons . Robin , the conjuror . Indeed , all the auditory seemed to ...
... dinner . " This was said rather as a soliloquy , but it excited a mur- mur of applause round the court , similar to that one sometimes hears after a successful feat of Mons . Robin , the conjuror . Indeed , all the auditory seemed to ...
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... oscuro pretended to Rembrandt for its painter , offered further and timely inter- ruption to the quarter - of - an - hour which had still to pass before dinner , and which , from the tax it imposed on all to be talkative , 130 THE COLONEL .
... oscuro pretended to Rembrandt for its painter , offered further and timely inter- ruption to the quarter - of - an - hour which had still to pass before dinner , and which , from the tax it imposed on all to be talkative , 130 THE COLONEL .
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