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"You did capitally. I never saw a young gentleman keep his temper as you did. Why he wants to hurt you I don't know, but I will put you up to a trick or two which will place him in your power. You are getting on famously with your fencing. He piques himself on being a first-rate fencer. He is not bad; and he does very well when he fences with Mr Jay, or any one he knows.
It was now close on midnight and Garry O'Neil came on deck to take the middle watch, it being his turn of duty. "Well, doctor," said the skipper, anxious to hear something about the invalids, "how're your patients?" "Both going on capitally; Jackson sleeping quietly, sir, though he can't last out long, poor fellow!" "And Mr Stokes?"
Where the sound came from I could not tell; it puzzled Wordsworth, with younger eyes than mine, to find whence issued "that cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky." Only one hint of the prosaic troubled my emotional delight: I could not help thinking how capitally the little rogue imitated the cuckoo clock, with the sound of which I was pretty well acquainted.
But all the time his eyes were as busy as those of a monkey, and wandering all over the study, and taking in everything he saw. "May I leave Dexter with you now!" said Helen, "as I have a few little matters to see to." "Yes, yes; of course, my dear. We are beginning capitally. Dexter, my boy; you can sit down on that chair, and amuse yourself with a book, while I go on writing."
She has neither family, fortune, nor connections; and, except her atrocious manners and her indomitable temper, there is not a trait of her that claims to be recorded. 'Oh yes; she rides capitally to hounds, and hunts her own harriers to perfection. 'I am glad she has one quality that deserves your favour. 'She has others, too, which I like better than what they call accomplishments.
Guert sang capitally, in a fine, clear, sweet, manly voice, and he gave us several airs with words both in English and in Dutch. He had just finished one of these songs, and the clapping of hands was still loud and warm, when the young man called on Mr. Worden for a lady, or a sentiment.
"We managed it capitally; but I don't like the portrait," said Robert, when they had crept back. "There is something odd about it." "There is," answered Alicia. "We never have seen my lady look as she does in that picture; but I think she could look so." Next day Talboys and Robert went fishing. George pretended to fish; Robert slept on the river-bank.
Because, thirdly, to apply the light of a revelation for the benefit of a merely human science, which is virtually done by so applying the illumination of an inspired teacher, is to assault capitally the scheme of God's discipline and training for man.
Lyon and his daughter are capitally drawn and the motive of the novel to teach Felix that he can be quite as true to his cause if he be less rough and eccentric in dress and deportment, is a good one handled with success. To which may be added that the encircling theme of Mrs.
"So I saw," I replied; "and I observed that you very nearly caught that fish by the tail. It would have done capitally for breakfast if you had." "Breakfast enough here," said he, holding up the oysters, as we landed and ran up the beach. "Hallo! Peterkin, here you are, boy. Split open these fellows while Ralph and I put on our clothes.
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