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And, too peevish and disappointed to even open the heterogeneous mass of letters and newspapers, he slumped sulkily in his chair, feet on the fender, biting into his extinct cigar. "That devilish Louis," he said, "has been away for several of the most accursedly lonely weeks I ever spent.... No reflection on you, Hamil Oh, I beg your pardon; I didn't see you were busy "
He was certain to be late to the party so late, indeed, that it might prove difficult to obtain a proper number of dances with the sacred girl in whose honor the celebration was being held. Too many were steeped in a sense of her sacredness, well he wot! and he was unable to find room in his apprehensive mind for any doubt that these others would be accursedly diligent.
Jingling Geordie is so damnably ready with his gold-ends of wisdom, and sae accursedly backward with his gold-ends of siller, that, by our royal saul, we are glad to get a hair in his neck."
There would be so many things priceless to us poets, such as killing, crucifixion, boiling in pitch, and similar matters. And now how have I fared! On the way the gods of Egypt threw me into the company of an accursedly charming woman who was being borne along in this superb traveling litter.
'I was so accursedly thirsty, was all he said; 'I couldn't wait to run down the stairs!" The general laughter appeased the Vanishing Man. "Who'll give me a glass of beer?" he said, rising with difficulty. He got his beer and sat down in a corner. Stolpe was sitting at the table playing with his canary, which had to partake of its share in the feast.
I could view it across the accursedly beautiful waterway and speculate upon its nature, but I could beat up no confidence in its treatment of me.
'I was so accursedly thirsty, was all he said; 'I couldn't wait to run down the stairs!" The general laughter appeased the Vanishing Man. "Who'll give me a glass of beer?" he said, rising with difficulty. He got his beer and sat down in a corner. Stolpe was sitting at the table playing with his canary, which had to partake of its share in the feast.
He saw, as he supposed, "the Okimow in peril of his life," and acted according to the dictates of his accursedly poor discretion. Never again shall he carry a rifle with me. So the last scene came not, but we had the trophy of a Musk-ox that weighed nine hundred pounds in life and stood five feet high at the shoulders a world's record in point of size.
That other life so hard, and far from her! So loveless, formal, and yet to him so real, so desperately, accursedly real!
"If you remember, Master Paddy, I have spent the most of my new service waiting under oak-trees; and I will not be saying that it rained always, but oft-times it did rain most accursedly." We rode on at daybreak.
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