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It was the first time that she found herself in the midst of so large a company, and inwardly scared by the flags, the drums, the gentlemen in frock-coats, and the order of the councillor, she stood motionless, not knowing whether to advance or run away, nor why the crowd was pushing her and the jury were smiling at her.
Then smiling a strange smile, his pupil fixed, his teeth set, he advanced with outstretched arms.
She escaped, smiling, palpitating, undressed.
"This shows us," went on the other, smiling with benign self-sufficiency, "the innumerable irregularities of the nervous system.
He had drawn his hat over his eyes, and, with his hands behind his back, smiling and whistling, he looked straight at her in an unbearable manner.
She walked with downcast eyes, close to the walls, and smiling with pleasure under her lowered black veil.
And, smiling a little at his unnoticed joke, the doctor opened the door.
'Such is the effect of the vain pomps of this world; you are evidently accustomed to smiling faces, positive theatres of falsehood.
On arriving at No. 103, which was a tiny room eight feet square on the highest floor of the building, Julien observed that it looked out towards the ramparts, beyond which one saw the smiling plain which the Doubs divides from the city.
The reader, who is perhaps smiling, will please to remember all the mistakes made, in eating an egg, by the abbe Delille when invited to luncheon by a great lady of the Court of Louis XVI.
While the Marquis de Croisenois, unable to penetrate the throng, stood gazing at Mathilde with a smiling air, she allowed her large, sky-blue eyes to rest upon him and his neighbours.
As he was reading with forced attention the first of these letters, he heard close beside him the rustle of a silken gown; he turned sharply round; Mademoiselle de La Mole was standing by his table, and smiling.
Obedient as Norbert was, his sister's meaning was so unmistakable that he assumed an air of gravity, little in keeping, it must be confessed, with his genial, smiling features.
'You are in a hurry for me to conclude,' he said with heat, entirely discarding that smiling politeness and measured speech which Julien had assumed to be the natural expression of his character: 'you are in a hurry for me to conclude; you give me no credit for the efforts that I am making not to offend the ears of anyone present, however long they may be.
'I am sorry, gentlemen,' he added, smiling; 'but this reduces your task to a very small matter.
"My being innocent does not make things simple," said K. Despite everything, he couldn't help smiling and slowly shook his head.
We had intended to push on to Wallingford that day, but the sweet smiling face of the river here lured us to linger for a while; and so we left our boat at the bridge, and went up into Streatley, and lunched at the "Bull," much to Montmorency's satisfaction.
I like sitting in the boat and slowly rising out of the cool depths up into new reaches and fresh views; or sinking down, as it were, out of the world, and then waiting, while the gloomy gates creak, and the narrow strip of day-light between them widens till the fair smiling river lies full before you, and you push your little boat out from its brief prison on to the welcoming waters once again.
All the girls were smiling.
A fine young man was now seen sitting near the entrance, who, by his smiling countenance, was evidently a pleased listener to the conversation.
"Be sure he like 'em better," said Caesar, smiling good-humoredly, and reopening the pack; "Miss Sally like a t'ree shilling when she give, and a four shilling when she take."
"You must be well known by this time, Harvey, to the officers of the British army," cried Sarah, smiling knowingly on the peddler.
Frances, with a face beaming with a look of pleasure that corresponded to the smiling countenances of the blacks, offered the service of her needle in fitting the admired calico to its future uses.
"That might have endangered his own liberty," said the smiling girl, resuming her seat.
"That," said Wharton, smiling, "was a thing easier said than done, Mr. Caesar, especially as these gentlemen" (glancing his eyes at the guides) "had seen proper to deprive me of the use of my better arm."
But you knew it was a horse!""I had such suspicions, I own," said the major, smiling, and holding a beverage to the lips of his friend.
"You speak of him as if he were your mistress, Major Dunwoodie," observed the smiling spinster, glancing her eye at her niece, who sat pale and listening, in a corner of the room.
In passing Frances, she received another of those smiling looks of affection she so much prized, and for a season the impression made by his appearance after the battle was forgotten.
whose captain is as tough as a pepperidge log, and has as many lives as a cat!""Faith," said the subaltern, smiling in his turn, "the log may yet be split, and grimalkin lose his lives, if you often charge as madly as you did this morning.
"I doctored him mostly with yarbs," said the housekeeper, smiling, as if conscious of error.
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