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... 66 Chapter 28 From the pages of Erik’s Journal: Now that Claire has ceased fussing about me and is asleep with the cat, I am able to write about wh... ... Gilbert came in the back entrance with more wood for the stove and began to fuss about me immediately. “Claire, er, Madame ... are you comfortable?... ...are useless?” I nodded my assent. I could not imagine going through a life fussing over dinner menus and whether or not the lappets on my lace brea... ...armer climate the doctor ordered and Claire will have peace of mind. ----- I fussed over Erik more than I ought to have done, I am sure. He could har... ...ome money to help make the transition easier, even though I was told it was unnecessary. I could not just leave these kindly people without support ... ...family of friends. He hated being treated like an invalid, but tolerated my fussing. “I told Christine Daae that I would have Zareh place this item i...

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...ould only insist on sharing her room and, more importantly, Isabel de Silva would think she was a fussy little goose. Why, she mused, should she wor... ... the drawer of the bedside table. She poured herself some strong black coffee and watched Rosita fussing about the room, hanging up her beautiful dr... ...wish you adieu before my journey.’ ‘You are going away, Gavin?’ Helen heard herself framing the unnecessary question, as she saw Gavin’s eyes wande... ...elen, approaching her husband to inspect the rather angry wound. THE CURSE OF KALI 211 ‘Don’t fuss, Helen, I have had worst injuries than this in... ... to be jealous of John MacGregor. ‘And did you agree with her, Gavin?’ ‘I dismissed her fears as unnecessary. The Residency is British ground and t... ...wing her sweet breath into Helen’s hair. Often Sultan trotted up for his share of the treats and fussing, but he didn’t hang around after he was su...

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...ed outside of Anjia’s bedroom. “Go get Senarra – quickly!” Odai ordered Essen, but it was unnecessary, she ran into the room at that moment. Odai lo... ...stimaine’s work, and spending hours deciphering the scrolls at night.” Mitch watched Alex fuss and fiddle with clothes and papers, not really accom- ...

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...his way indefinitely if it pleased him. ::Jewels, focus, please.:: ::Stop fussing at me, Jeremy. Sheesh, what is your deal?:: Her anchor was being un... ...have no sense and I've gained at least a dozen gray hairs.:: ::Hey, don't fuss at me,:: she groused. Jeremy turned to the Prince. “Thank you, for her... ...ey started to sweat and considered calling in his own soldiers. It proved unnecessary, however, because surprising enough, the Lieutenant asked the P... ...ed to stop.:: Her laugh touched his heart. ::You sound like Jeremy. Always fussing at me to take it a little easier. That is something you have to le... ...I know what I'm doing. Trust me.:: The Lupine sneered. “You're the one the fuss is about? Unbelievable! I am Beta Lastbite. You may have won today, b...

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...his for my family, that is.” “No sons?” Geoffrey asked, his voice softer with unnecessary sympathy. ”I am my parents only child,” she answered. It ... ...rin. And Aislinn, breaking his nose, I can’t believe it. That was crude and unnecessary.” “He… he groped me!” she protested, pointed at him. The ... ...Everything will work out.” “Then I’m staying here tonight.” Catherina didn’t fuss over this. The poor girl’s already half frozen! Aislinn shrugged... ...A gown was a big enough change, more than she wanted. Once the Lady finished fussing with what there was of her hair, she directed Aislinn to a mirr... ...u are a lady. A fact none shall deny.” Aislinn couldn’t see why everyone was fussing over her but she smiled. Once the guard loudly announced her ... ...dance, Caelan danced with Gemma — the need for him to mingle with other girls unnecessary now — and Aislinn’s heart tightened each time she watched t... ...owry. A woman, obviously pregnant, waddled over to the door. “What’s all the fuss?” she asked, looking at her little ones. “I wanna be a knight, m...

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...familiar to Michelle that she rarely gave them a second thought. "Oh don't fuss Brendan." Michelle sat in the chair he'd pulled out for her. Only pre... ...es at the back of the neck. David rubbed sleep from his eyes. His friend's fussing had him assuming the woman was the man's whore and if so, he'd don... ...o beep then in fifteen minutes. Disgruntled, David thought Alex was taking unnecessary risks; her fearless attitude he likened to Roxanne. If the two... ...onfident they could find something there to help her. Alex conveyed not to fuss. Having calculated fluid loss, although her body felt dehydrated and h...

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...longed for affection and commitment from an accommodating man. She is not fussy; any willing and capable male body is welcome. He did not hold much ... ...rcy’s name down on his achievement list, but was not prepared to take any unnecessary risks and decided to just speak loudly the suggestive comments... ...Oh praise God, if only we could be so blessed.” She passed the group, not fussed that all eyes were on her. Where did she come from? Edward thought d... ...ich he did. “You could say that Sir.” “Would you like a cup of tea?” Norma fussed. “No thank you ma’am, but it was nice of you to offer.” Michael aire... ...eeched, becoming steaming puddles. Imashiharta turned to see what all the fuss was about. “Get back you,” Imashiharta growled at Michael. “This is my... ...rris up and down in disgust. “Excuse me,” Morris said. “But what’s all the fuss about?” “A boy won the lottery of all lotteries. He’ll be set for the ...

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... third of the day. She rifled through her wardrobe, tossing out petticoats, fussing over a skirt that was wrinkled, or a spot on a favorite shirtwai... ... turned. Camilla walked to the archway between the front and back parlors, fussing with the red velvet portières that divided them. She pulled the... ...ess?” “Yes.” ***** In the nearly pitch blackness of the Box, Morgan fussed with the rigging of her flash pots and lanterns, straining to see... ... leave me alone!” Daniel shouted when he’d grown tired of Peter and Cully’s fussing over him. “We can’t do that, Dan’l. We sent for the doctor, ... ...ne brow arched halfway up his brow, “Don’t look at me that way, York. You fuss like an old man for all you’re just over half my age. She’s the on... ...t twice a week. But the curl of Lydia’s lip showed him that confession was unnecessary. He wondered if she knew that it was Helene’s manipulations ... ...ett laughed and clapped him on the shoulder. “T’would be a grand touch, but unnecessary. Seems as if a new witness has come forth. And just in the...

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... passed the paper napkins, Mr. Marbury captured her with a loud, “Oh, quit fussing now. Come over here and sit down and tell us how’s tricks.” He herd... ...chickens left now, but we might just happen to run onto a small covey.” He fussed over his hunting-kit. He pulled his hip boots out to full length and... ...sparagus. Routine care was all she could devote to the house. Only by such fuss- ing as the Widow Bogart’s could she make it fill her time. She could ... ...ress for the next soiree—heard you were,” Carol said “Don’t know yet” with unnecessary sharpness. She was relieved by the admiration with which the je... ... ever saw.” “Well, I’ve just fancied— The merchants probably think I’m too fussy about shopping. I’m afraid I bore Mr. Dashaway and Mr. Howland and Mr... ...l laughing up their sleeves at her.” “Say, jever notice how Mrs. Kennicott fusses around the house? Other evening when I was coming over here, she’d f...

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...er. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to c... ...onfused impression of livery carriages and whips with white favors, people fussily wanting other people to get in before them, and then the church. Pe... ...satisfied proprietorship. She had cried, Ann Veronica knew. There had been fusses and scenes dimly apprehended through half-open doors. She had heard ... ...e river-barges either altogether stagnant or dreaming along in the wake of fussy tugs; and above circled, urbanely voracious, the Lon- don seagulls. S... ...int remote way, gleeful. “Dear old Daddy,” she said, “he’ll make a fearful fuss. Well, it had to happen somewhen… . Somehow. I wonder what he’ll say?”... ...Love anywhere. Anywhere! Moonlight and music—pleasing, you know, but quite unnecessary. We met dissecting dogfish… . Do you re- member your first day ...

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...next few days he was indeed singularly busy in his steamy little hothouse, fussing about with charcoal, lumps of teak, moss, and all the other mysteri... ...he exterior version of the Plattner story—its exoteric aspect. It is quite unnecessary to enter here into all the details of his dismissal by Mr. Lidg... ...e discontinued playing, and turned round on the music-stool again. “What a fuss about nothing!” said Jennie. “You see, Mr. Clarence, what I’ve got to ... ...in to help me once a week if it wasn’t for my standing out plucky. And the fusses he makes about money—comes to me, well, pretty near cry- ing, with s... ...ast came the day of the second examination, and the professor of botany, a fussy, conscientious man, rearranged all the tables in a long narrow labora... ...as the light faded, see the same vision again. Now it would be tedious and unnecessary to state all the phases of Mr. Cave’s discovery from this point... ...he heat! the beastly closeness! the mackintosheriness and the rum! and the fuss! They lit a stinking fire on a kind of lava slab there was before me, ... ...when the idea struck me. “By Jove, Pyecraft!” I said, “all this is totally unnecessary.” And before I could calculate the complete consequences of my ...

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...ck twice with any lesson. For elbows on the table. For foolish crying. For unnecessary words in lesson-time. For running up stairs in wet shoes. For l... ..., and David, as grave as a judge, is taking up his slate, looking a little fussed because there is a scratch in the corner. “Well, Susan,” says Miss F... ...gasp; and Elizabeth, who has said her French without a blunder, puts in an unnecessary and not very sisterly word: “Susan never will learn her French.... ...d a mes- 69 Yo n g e sage up by the man that we’ll all come, without this fuss?” But Miss Fosbrook said that would be very uncivil; and Susan, groani... ...d over her lessons, and was cross at whatever the boys said to her, made a fuss about keeping the ornamental cases of the bon-bons, and went about rou... ... dinner?” “Bother! how is one to remember! It’s all nonsense making such a fuss. The children fancied they put in ever so much more than they did, and... ... that all?” said Annie, much disappointed. “So that’s what Bet made such a fuss about,” said John; and David’s face fell, as if he had really expected...

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...gratuitous services were needed he was ready, and did everything with- out fuss, like the man with the short cloak, who spends his life in carrying so... ...ed against anybody who dwelt in her unfavorable re- membrance. She made no fuss, she did not excite herself, she talked, because she knew that by two ... ... supposed to have the use of their rea- son, any notice of the petition is unnecessary. The duty of the Court chiefly consists in verifying the allega... ...give Madame d’Espard a pretext for her petition, speak without fear. It is unnecessary to assure you that lawyers know their duties, and that in such ... ..., and then they bowed coldly to the lawyer. Popinot felt that it was quite unnecessary to question the Marquis as to his relations towards his sons. ... ...u that, from the first words of this inquiry, I regarded my clerk as quite unnecessary.” He went close to M. d’Espard, led him into the window-bay, an...

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...r, but an economical and self-contained one, never throwing away the least unnecessary fib, and never hesitating at the blackest, were it only plau- s... ...s,’ said Dick, deliberately, ‘I like the power; I like the fun; I like the fuss; and above all I like the money. I almost like the people who make the... ...uss; and above all I like the money. I almost like the people who make the fuss and pay the money. Almost. But they’re a queer gang,—an amazingly quee... ...ing I imagined,’ said Torpenhow. ‘Oh, the everlasting Dick, I suppose! You fuss over him like a hen with one chick. Let him run riot if he thinks it’l... ...ow-heads. Well?’ ‘I should be only half married to you. I should worry and fuss about my work, as I do now. Four days out of the seven I’m not fit to ... ...if I tell you a sure short-cut to everything you want,—the trouble and the fuss and the tangle and all the rest? Will you promise to obey me?’ ‘Of cou... ... other girls in the house than if they was so many flies. I don’t have any unnecessary words, but I put ‘em down quick, I can tell you, when they talk...

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...o pay ten thousand francs a year from the day of her marriage. It is quite unnecessary to say that the Polish count, though an exile, was no expense t... ...ed equipage. The duties he takes upon himself are all accomplished without fuss or emphasis. One evening I lost twenty thousand francs at whist. ‘What...

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...y, after reflection, “in that matter of Pecunia non olet; there used to be fusses about European loans in China. And one of the favourite themes of Br... ...llies in a way that would be tedious to describe to the general reader and unnecessary to describe to the enquiring special- ists. They go over the gr...

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...rl recov- ering herself drew a hissing breath through her set teeth. It is unnecessary to report the long process of questions and answers by which he... ...lar-collecting trip. He added, laughing, that his wife was making rather a fuss about it. She had begged him to stay ashore and get somebody else to t... ...avidson’s wife. He even wondered to 125 me: ‘Fancy Mrs. Davidson making a fuss to that extent. She didn’t seem to me the sort of woman that would kno... ...ent. She didn’t seem to me the sort of woman that would know how to make a fuss about anything.’ “I wondered, too—but not so much. That bumpy forehead... ...ds could be 148 trusted to go to the devil in their own way. No amount of fuss would bring the poor woman to life again, and the actual mur- derer ha...

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...to go and be of some use! Val, you naughty child, how dare you make such a fuss?’ for Valetta was crying again. ‘I hate school, and I hate Rockstone, ... ...rd of honour not to attempt to make an exit thereby, which Gillian thought unnecessary, since this pair were not enterprising. The evening went off ha... ...ied Aunt Adeline. ‘No,’ said Gillian; ‘but I call it snobbish to make more fuss about Alethea’s concern than Phyllis’s—just because he calls himself L... ...ther Miss Vincent or the Miss Hackets, because ‘she did not want to have a fuss,’ Aunt Jane said she thought it a pity, with regard at least to the go... ...t she did,’ said Kalliope, much distressed. ‘But why? It would only make a fuss.’ ‘I should be much happier about it.’ ‘And perhaps have it all upset.... ...e hope, and feel himself making progress.’ ‘Then why do you want to have a fuss, and a bother, and a chatter? If my father and mother don’t approve, t... ...s owing to the younger division of the company, when Valetta broke into an unnecessary inquiry why they did not have as many lights on the altar at St...

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...e her ashamed of her question; and she said, ‘Well, father never makes any fuss about what I read. He has other things to think of.’ ‘How do you get b... ...o plain needle- work properly.’ ‘Sewing-machines can work. What the use of fussing about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in... ...t in Wilfred; but Mysie, un- heeding went on— ‘And Gill can help without a fuss or going to mamma.’ ‘Mamma always knows,’ said Val. ‘Mamma knows all a... ...give and take in a good-natured sort of way, and not to be always making a fuss about everything you don’t like. It is the only way, I assure you.’ Do... ...king himself off, and diverting his mind, he went dear- stalking with such unnecessary vehemence that a Scotch mist was very nearly the death of him, ... ... gainsayed him—but the general indignation had only made her feel, ‘what a fuss about the darling.’ ‘ Another time, too,’ added Lady Merrifield, ‘reme...

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...he date of his death.” “That wouldn’t keep me away. Only, they made such a fuss about the watching”—she caught her breath—”it might be ostentatious fr... ...ock that officer’s dog was nowhere to be found, and you never heard such a fuss as his owner made. He called and shouted and grew angry, and hunted th... ...She laid an egg. She had stolen in for that purpose. “There was a bit of a fuss on the Gate,” Melissa chuckled. “You were there, Miss?” She did not kn... ... pull over to Greenland. I’ll see her pithed first! We wasted half an hour fussing over that dead duck down under, and now I’m expected to go rubbin’ ... ...mes, electricity literally drips off one’s stanchions and screw blades, is unnecessary. When my friends had finished, the road was seared, and blown, ... ...romise given for the journey, she under- went it without murmur, spasm, or unnecessary word. Miss Bessie, pressed in a corner by the window, wept behi...