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He was then twenty-four years old, tall, graceful, and with beautiful features and complexion, almost feminine in their delicacy, and with a wonderful purity and sweetness in the expression of the mouth and blue eyes, so that he struck Eleanor as resembling the angels in the illuminations that she had been studying, as he removed his dark green velvet jewelled cap on entering, and gave a cousinly, respectful kiss lightly to each of the young ladies on her cheek, somewhat as if he were afraid of them.

' asked David, with a twinkle in his eye of cousinly teasing.

Daily Volumnia has a little cousinly talk with Sir Leicester on the state of the nation, from which Sir Leicester is disposed to conclude that Volumnia is a more reflecting woman than he had thought her.

" General burst of cousinly indignation.

Volumnia, in her room up a retired landing on the staircase-the second turning past the end of the carving and gilding, a cousinly room containing a fearful abortion of a portrait of Sir Leicester banished for its crimes, and commanding in the day a solemn yard planted with dried-up shrubs like antediluvian specimens of black tea-is a prey to horrors of many kinds.

George undoubtedly thinks it best to escort her on his arm to the door of her cousinly chamber, and the maid as undoubtedly thinks it best to hustle her into bed with mighty little ceremony.

Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber-room full of old chairs and tables upside down.

Doubtless she played with him, persuading herself that she merely treated him with cousinly cordiality, when she was designedly making him her lover.

Aru. [Embarrassed.] Why, considering the relationship between us, it was but natural I should form a sort of humdrum-cousinly acquaintance with De Clermont's wife.

Your humdrum-cousinly acquaintance, appears to endow you with great authority? hem! This comes from my brothers of course, but we need not be afraid of its passing beyond, I think, though I was a good deal vexed when I heard first of it last night and have been in cousinly anxiety ever since to get our Orestes safe away from those Furies his creditors, into Brittany again.

He had searched in many quarters for somebody to help him, and with good warrant for hoping it, inasmuch as he, in lucky days, had been open-handed and cousinly to all who begged advice of him.

His conscience vexed him likewise, suggesting that his attitude had not been pure cousinly; and this shamed him, since he was still singularly unspotted from the world, noble modesties and decencies still paramount in him.

He was not such a fatuous ass as to have mistaken Helen's frank camaraderie, her bright interest in things, her charming little ways of showing cousinly regard, for some deeper, more personal feeling? For, she having, unconsciously, done so much for him, was it not his first duty never to distress her?-never to let her know how much deeper it had all gone with him than with her?-never to insult her beautiful innocence by a word or look suggesting an affection less frank and cousinly than her own? Enfin it is a relief to have unburdened myself for once, and you have been the good genius of my unfortunate ménage, for which heaven reward you.-Yours, in true cousinly regard and supreme reliance on your discretion, "Luigi Angelo Francesco de Vallorbes." That this, in any case, had a stamp of sincerity upon it, Richard could not doubt.

Old Sapt handed me the King's sword, looking at me long and carefully. "Thank God, he shaved his beard!" he exclaimed. "Why did he?" I asked. "Because Princess Flavia said he grazed her cheek when he was graciously pleased to give her a cousinly kiss.

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