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'He'll end up in jail, Mellow, he said, 'and bring shame on the old name. All I hope is that I'll be dead and buried before it happens. And with that he gets up and goes out and slams the door behind him." Ann was silent. It seemed to her that things were even more seriously amiss than she had imagined. Mrs. Mellow glanced at her wistfully.
There were no windows, two great doors, one on each side of the corner, admitting light and air, and at one side of the room a smaller door led into another apartment, for this was a house on an unusual scale. The native bed is something unique, and perhaps a description of it will not come amiss.
"If spry be active, mistress," said a voice from the darkness aft, "then should you find naught here amiss. Right lusty workers, these, I promise you! Roundly, men, and a shilling each if we do win the race!" "Ay ay, sir!" came the willing response, and Rebecca, satisfied that they could do no more, seated herself again, to wait as best she might.
Strong in these impressions, he had now come over to make a formal proposal. The manner, however, of mother and daughter disturbed him; something he saw was amiss; there was a sadness and constraint in the words of both which distressed and embarrassed him. After a brief conversation on commonplace topics Mary rose hastily and left the room.
Cecilia now stared with a look of so much astonishment and displeasure, that Mrs Belfield, suspecting she had gone rather too far, added "I beg you won't take what I've said amiss, ma'am, for we mothers of families are more used to speak out than maiden ladies.
"What a sweet spirit our Agnes has." Agnes worked and thought. She did not have the least idea how the money went, but she knew a little more would not be amiss, so she said: "If there was any other way in which I could help you, Ruth."
On this day fortnight he was reading his letters at breakfast I saw there was something amiss, and said something stupid about the hot rolls, because he could not bear me to notice. I think that roused him, for he got up, but he tottered, and by the time I came to him he seemed to slip down into my arms, quite insensible.
There is no need for such excessive hurry. Mannering is safe enough for the present." "At least, for the next eighteen hours," I observed, after glancing at my watch. "Meanwhile, your room has been kept ready for you." "A little sleep will not come amiss," he answered, yawning; "though it seems almost a pity to go to bed on such a morning." He was right.
"Do not be uneasy on that account," replied the emperor. "So far from taking amiss what you have done, I highly approve of your conduct, and hope you will have the same deference and attachment to my person, if I have ever so little share in your friendship."
There's never much amiss with our days, so long as we can forget about them the moment we lay our heads on the pillow." The two young men entered the house amicably, arm in arm. The girls had already retired, but Mrs.
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