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But feeling that we were under wonderful obligations to YOU, and learning my wife did that you were dependent on on your own labor, we thought that if this little fellow that you saved so handsomely should hand you this check for five hundred dollars it wouldn't be amiss." And here, according to rehearsal, the nurse with great parade handed the child to Mrs.
But, at least, when at last she opened the door for him, there was nothing amiss with her appearance. In the room where the piano was, she sat down on the bench and smiled up at him. "Shall I sing now?" Lennox put his hat on the sofa. "If you don't mind my talking to you." "Very good, we will have a duo." Over the keys her fingers moved, sketching a melody, passing from it into another.
I don't think I ever felt more thankful that I had such a mother than last night, when Edna was talking in a way that troubled me." When Bessie went downstairs after finishing her letter, she was much surprised to see Edna in her usual place pouring out the coffee. She looked a little pale and heavy-eyed; but no one could have detected from her manner that there was anything much amiss.
For any skill in geometry I dare not commend him, for he could never yet find out the dimensions of his own conscience; notwithstanding he hath many bottoms, it seemeth this is always bottomless. And so with a libera nos a malo I leave you, promising to amend whatsoever is amiss at his next setting. Is a diseased piece of apocalypse: bind him to the Bible, and he corrupts the whole text.
"And where, Sir," said I, "is your belief of my being preserved here on purpose to save your life, which elevated you a little while ago? For my part," said I, "there seems to me but one thing amiss in all the prospect of it." "What is that?" says he.
It was on a bitterly cold night and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face, and told me at a glance that something was amiss. 'Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!
"Oh, the new ideas! the new ideas! By all manner of means, Valeria, let us have the new ideas! The old morality's all wrong, the old ways are all worn out. Let's march with the age we live in. Nothing comes amiss to the age we live in. The wife in England and the husband in Spain, married or not married living together or not living together it's all one to the new ideas.
For the rest, he was an excellent man of business, fair and even generous in his dealings, respected by all and loved by few, for his nature was too self-contained to admit of much affection. To us he was a stern and rigid father, punishing us heavily for whatever he regarded as amiss in our conduct.
Summer reached its supreme culmination, and days that would not be amiss at the equator were often followed by nights of breathless sultriness.
He replied, "There is no dislike; but my friend, the divan, can be seen at a time when he is out of office, and my idle intrusion might not come amiss." Amidst the state patronage and authority of office they might take umbrage at their acquaintance; but on the day of vexation and loss of place they would impart their mental disquietudes to their friends.