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And he'd have insisted on having all their quarrels in her bedroom." Barbara seemed to have talked away her listlessness. The champagne had brought colour into her cheeks and eyes. Eric looked at her with new interest, waiting for the next abrupt change. "I'm not finding you as thoroughly dull as you warned me to expect," he observed, borrowing her candour of speech. "I should think not!
Buddha is not born of a royal family; he is not tempted before his enlightenment; he works no miracles, and he is not a Universal Saviour." The chances are decidedly that if any borrowing has been done it was on the side of Buddhism. It has been asserted that thirty thousand Buddhist monks from Alexandria once visited Ceylon on the occasion of a great festival.
Souls ain't what they were," he muttered pessimistically; "it used to be you could hear the Redeemed a spell of miles from the church, now they're as confidential as a man borrowing money. The Lord will in no wise acknowledge the faint in spirit." Suddenly, "Glory! Glory!" he shouted, and his old eyes flamed with the inextinguishable blaze of his enthusiasm.
"She's been acting so queer lately, she's not been herself at all." "Now there you go, borrowing trouble, mother," Edward exclaimed. He could not take his eyes from Janet, but continued to regard her with benevolence. "Lise'll get married some day. I don't suppose we can expect another Mr. Ditmar...." "Well," said Hannah, presently, "there's no use sitting up all night."
Buckwheat cakes, each as big as the plate itself with "oodles of butter and real maple syrup," to quote Bob. "We don't even get as good as this at Salsette," said Tommy Tucker grimly. "Oh, cracky!" "I want to know!" gibed his twin, borrowing a phrase he had heard New England Libbie use on one occasion. "If Major Pater could see us now!" Libbie and Timothy forgot to quote poetry.
I knew that he was looking at me sideways, with a sardonic smile. "I suppose you are hard up," I remarked insolently. "I should be a damned fool if I thought I had any chance of borrowing money from you." "You've come down in the world if you can bring yourself to flatter." He grinned. "You'll never really dislike me so long as I give you the opportunity to get off a good thing now and then."
That the use of the Umbrella was considered far too effeminate for man, is seen from the following advertisement from the Female Tatler for December 12th, 1709: "The young gentleman borrowing the Umbrella belonging to Wills' Coffee-house, in Cornhill, of the mistress, is hereby advertised, that to be dry from head to foot on the like occasion, he shall be welcome to the maid's pattens."
Then, borrowing from her the ironwood stick used for breaking open cocoa-nuts, they went after him, and knocked him down with it, binding him hand and foot, and placing him in a long basket made of cocoa-nut leaves. His wife rushed forward, but was kept away, as the touch or breath of a woman is considered to pollute a sacrifice.
Bert said, unsympathetically. "Leave 'em there I'll take them all up in a day or two!" "But I was thinking," Nancy said, following him upstairs, "That while you are about it, borrowing money for the new venture, you know why not borrow an extra thousand or two, and clear this all up, and then we can really start fresh. You see interest on a thousand is only fifty dollars a year, and that "
At an early hour, therefore, Dab and Ford were preceded by their young colored friend, they themselves waiting for later breakfasts than Mrs. Lee was in the habit of preparing. Dick's ill fortune did not leave him when he got out of sight of his mother. It followed him down to the shore of the inlet, and compelled him to give up, for that day, all idea of borrowing a respectable boat.
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