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And then he thought, as husbands sometimes will think, of Susan Harding as she was when he had gone a-courting to her under the elms before the house in the warden's garden at Barchester, and of dear old Mr. Harding, his wife's father, who still lived in humble lodgings in that city; and as he thought, he wondered at and admired the greatness of that lady's mind.
I am fully capable of repaying any insolence offered to me, whether from D'Hérouville, the vicomte . . . or yourself." "To love you, then, is insolence?" "Yes; the method which you use is insolent." "Is there any way to prove that I love you?" admirably hiding his despair. "What! Monsieur, you go a-courting without buckles on your shoes?" "Diane, let us play at cross-purposes no longer.
He would have killed the chap, his timper was so ruffled, if the man hadn't nearly killed him afore he had the chance. He laid all night in the gutter, and was just able to crawl home next day, while the fellow went a-courting the next night, as if nothing had happened. "Tom begun to git melancholy, and his mouth didn't appear quite as broad as usual.
That the young Earl was by no means insensible to beauty, Sholto knew well, and he remembered his words to his own father, when he had asked to be allowed to accompany him on his Flanders mare, that such attendance was not seemly when a man was going a-courting.
It was John's custom to go there almost every evening; though certainly he could not be said to "go a-courting." Nothing could be more unlike it than his demeanour, or indeed the demeanour of both. They were very quiet lovers, never making much of one another "before folk." No whispering in corners, or stealing away down garden walks.
He frequented their house, and his free and rattling talk was no unpleasing variety to Othello, who was himself of a more serious temper; for such tempers are observed often to delight in their contraries, as a relief from the oppressive excess of their own; and Desdemona and Cassio would talk and laugh together, as in the days when he went a-courting for his friend.
"A pretty to do, indeed," his wife assured him. "Dost want her running off some fine night with thy groom?" "Tush, Matilda!" responded Mr. Meredith. "'T is impossible." "Just what my parents said when thou camest a-courting." "I was no redemptioner." "'T was none the less a step-down for me," replied Mrs. Meredith, calmly. "And I had far less levity than "
But if you look sharply you will see that if it were pressed down ever so little it would instantly release the bent stick that holds the fall-log, and bring the deadly thing down with crushing force across the back of any animal beneath. Such are the pitfalls that lie athwart the way of Keeonekh the otter, when he goes a-courting and uses Musquash's portage to shorten his journey.
I'd advise you to thry. "Och! my owld granny sleeps with her head on a stone, 'Now, Malach, don't throuble the gals when I'm gone! I thried to obey her; but, och, I am shure, There's no sorrow on earth that the angels can't cure. "Och! "Malach!" shouted a laughing group. "How was it that the old lady taught you to go a-courting? "Arrah, that's a sacret!
Do you suppose the Turkish system doesn't obtain all over the world? My poor Clive, this article in the Mayfair Market is beyond your worship's price. Some things in this world are made for our betters, young man. Let Dives say grace for his dinner, and the dogs and Lazarus be thankful for the crumbs. Here comes Warrington, shaven and smart as if he was going out a-courting."
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