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But I'll tell the gentry that I'm positively determined to make no compliments to them or to their Excellencies, and that one person is just as good as another! Positively I'll tell them that!" "God bless the little ones!
He has left two hundred thousand pounds, in the funds, to Lord Darlington, who was his next nearest relation; and at least twenty thousand pounds in various legacies. If riches alone could make people happy, the last two proprietors of this immense wealth ought to have been so, but they never were. God bless you, and send you good health, which is better than all the riches of the world!
"Show me a man of all the hundreds inside, Father Holland, that wouldn't go on his marrow-bones to a woman who risks life and reputation, which is dearer than life, to save another woman!" "Bless you, me hearty, if he wouldn't, he'd be a villain," said the priest. I frequently passed that window above the stoop next day.
I hope to wait on you soon with better news. Heaven bless you, dear madam! and believe me to be, with the utmost sincerity, Your most obliged, obedient, humble servant, ATKINSON." Amelia was really pleased with this letter; and now, it being past four o'clock, she despaired of seeing her husband till the evening.
"Why, bless me, Captain Niel, how queer you look!" said Mrs. Neville, fanning herself with her hat; "and there is such a row going on at the camp there; the volunteers swear that they will attack the military for deserting them, and I don't know what all; and they simply wouldn't believe me when I said you were not shot. Why, I never! Look! your boot is full of blood! So you were hit after all."
"Your health, cousin Walter!" said the girl quickly, lifting her own glass, and making him a little bow over the old Madeira. "Bless your dear heart!" responded the captain; "the same good wishes to you in return, and now you must join me in my respects to your aunt. Nancy! I beg you not to waste this in pudding-sauces; that's the way with you ladies."
They were glad to go anywhere if only with him, and each took an arm, and bore him triumphantly to the rectory. "Bless my soul," said Dr. Howe, looking at them over his glasses, as they came into the library, "it is good to see you again, young man! How did you leave Helen?" He pushed his chair back from the fire, and let his newspapers rustle to the floor, as he rose.
"With that word to keep me I shall not be killed to-day, I promise you, Jack; and that in spite of this damned queasiness that was showing me the burying trench." And then he added softly: "God bless her!"
"Yes, 'Heaven bless your dear heart, Nan! I never can forget all you have been to me; and when I am far away with Philip, there will always be one countenance more beautiful to me than any pictured face I may discover, there will be one place more dear to me than Rome.
'How very shocking! said Anne, painfully anxious for him to leave off. 'O, it don't hurt him, bless ye. Do it, corpel? said Cripplestraw. 'Not a bit, said the corporal, still working his arm with great energy. 'There's no life in the bones at all. No life in 'em, I tell her, corpel! 'None at all. 'They be as loose as a bag of ninepins, explained Cripplestraw in continuation.
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