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There never was a better-hearted woman than Mary, and I always thought she must 'a' gone through a heap to make her say such a thing to Harvey.
I dare say that you have had offers in plenty you have some money, and therefore of course you would get offers but not from Yewdells. That could not happen to you more than once in your life. A better-hearted fellow, a truer man " "Call him a Nature's nobleman at once and have done with it." "Yes, a Nature's nobleman; you couldn't have described him better.
Once or twice, sheriffs who were bent on arresting me because I had no visible means of support, let me go, because it awed them to find a tramp reading Shakespeare.... "It's a shame, a clever lad like you bein' a bum!" I never lived and moved with a better-hearted group of people. Tramps often travel in pairs.
We gathered from a few dropped words that they were engaged on some work over at the church masonry, no doubt and, as they left the breakfast-table, in a laughing knot, to begin the day's work, they suggested our giving a look in at them on our way. This we promised to do, for a merrier, better-hearted lot of fellows it would be hard to find.
She knew Freddie so well. There was not a dearer or a better-hearted youth in the world, but he had not that fine sensibility which pilots a man through the awkwardnesses of life. He was a blunderer. Instinct told her that, if she met Freddie, he would talk of Derek, and, if thinking of Derek was touching an exposed nerve, talking of him would like pressing on that nerve with a heavy hand.
It was at this point that Donny slipped away to report that "Mamma and old Hagar are scrappin' over Good Injun again," and told with glee the tale of his misdeeds as recounted by the squaw. Phoebe in her earnestness forgot to keep within the limitations of their dialect. "Grant's a good boy, and a smart boy. There isn't a better-hearted fellow in the country, if I have got five boys of my own.
'But instead of this justice being voluntarily rendered by the former clerk to his former master, by the party obliged to his benefactor, by one honest man to another, his wretched client had been compelled to follow his quondam clerk, his present debtor, from court to court; had found his just claims met with well-invented but unfounded counter-claims, had seen his party shift his character of pursuer or defender, as often as Harlequin effects his transformations, till, in a chase so varied and so long, the unhappy litigant had lost substance, reputation, and almost the use of reason itself, and came before their lordships an object of thoughtless derision to the unreflecting, of compassion to the better-hearted, and of awful meditation to every one who considered that, in a country where excellent laws were administered by upright and incorruptible judges, a man might pursue an almost indisputable claim through all the mazes of litigation; lose fortune, reputation, and reason itself in the chase, and now come before the supreme court of his country in the wretched condition of his unhappy client, a victim to protracted justice, and to that hope delayed which sickens the heart.
He was telling his wife when we entered the room that if the holidays were to last much longer and those twins did not hurry up and get their teeth quickly, he should have to go away and join the County Council. He could not stand the racket. His wife said she could not see what he had to complain of. She was sure better-hearted children no man could have.
'John Smith, the master-mason? cried Stephen hurriedly. 'Ay, no other; and a better-hearted man God A'mighty never made. 'Is he so much hurt? 'I have heard, said Mr. Swancourt, not noticing Stephen, 'that he has a son in London, a very promising young fellow. 'Oh, how he must be hurt! repeated Stephen. 'A beetle couldn't hurt very little.
"A better-hearted, kinder, more obliging people never lived," said this excellent judge, who after twenty-seven years of police service, returned to end his days among them. And my short experience of the Sligo folks confirms this statement. They were not all so reserved as Detective-sergeant Magee.
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