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We shall make enquiries of the state of Religion, how it is observed and so forth; and report to Master Cromwell." Beatrice looked down in a slightly side-long way. "I know what you are thinking," said Ralph, his tone a mixture of amusement and pride. She looked up silently. "Yes I knew it was so," he went on, smiling straight at her.

"With regard to me?" "With regard to you." "You think, perhaps, that I should not be permitted here at all as a guest?" "I do think that," she replied, looking steadily into his eyes. "I think more than that. I think that your place is in Sing Sing prison." The corners of his mouth twitched. His amusement maddened her; her eyes flashed.

When the cold weather set in she took him to St. Augustine. I ran against him by the old fort the very morning I arrived, and in the spring we met at Omaha, and made the overland trip to California together. There is no kind of air and no kind of amusement which she has not tried, since she had the means, to give the old man his health back again. To no purpose, however."

Once I have heard him go further, and express his feelings with regard to Esther in a single but eloquent word. "A minx, sir," he said, not in anger, rather in amusement: and he cordially drank her health upon the back of it. His worst enemy must admit him to be a man without malice; he never bore a grudge in his life, lacking the necessary taste and industry of attention.

The six French ships had now all come up, and were coming on in a body. "Good morning, gentlemen," the young captain said gayly. "We have a fine morning for our amusement. I wish the wind would freshen a little more so as to take this lubberly old ship faster through the water."

It's a dog's life, not a man's;" and poor Bellamy was so overcome at his real or imaginary wrongs that the tears actually rolled down his puffy little face. His wife surveyed him with some amusement. "I think," she said, "that you are a miserable creature." "Perhaps I am, Anne; but I tell you what it is, even a miserable creature can be driven too far.

Indeed I shall never be a flirt." As usual, on Lucia's return from any evening amusement, Mrs. Costello herself opened the door of the Cottage on her arrival. They went together to the parlour for a few minutes, and afterwards to Lucia's room, but it was not until her mother left her that it struck the poor child that some new alarm or distress had happened.

All these pleasures then, and all these virtues, I repeat, you nationally despise. You have, indeed, men among you who do not; by whose work, by whose strength, by whose life, by whose death, you live, and never thank them. Your wealth, your amusement, your pride, would all be alike impossible, but for those whom you scorn or forget.

He used to say to me 'How I should like to be an officer, a gallant naval officer, to lead on my men through fire and smoke to victory! And then the little fellow would wave his hand, while the colour flushed his cheeks, and shout 'Come on! come on! He had, somehow or other, got possession of an old naval chronicle; and from that moment his whole thoughts were of ships and battles, and his principal amusement was to launch little fleets of ships upon the pond at the bottom of the garden.

He has little time to devote himself to things of a different value, to the getting of position or influence or wealth. He cannot give himself up to filling his leisure pleasantly, by society or amusement. These are but things to fill a vacant space of weariness or of gestation.