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Father Shoveller, kindly as he was, was a mere yeoman with nothing spiritual about him; the monks of Hyde were, the younger, gay comrades, only trying how loosely they could sit to their vows; the elder, churlish and avaricious; even the Warden of Elizabeth College was little more than a student.
I don't think he means to leave you altogether in such an abrupt way, that would be churlish and ungrateful and I'm sure he is neither." "Oh, he's anything but churlish!" she answered quickly.
Of these two philosophies, so nearly identical at bottom, the one pursues Self-improvement a churlish, mangy dog; the other is up with the morning, in the best of health, and following the nymph Happiness, buxom, blithe, and debonair.
Of nature, I am churlish; yet one thing I ashame not to affirm, that familiarity once thoroughly contracted was never yet broken on my default. The cause may be that I have rather need of all, than that any have need of me. And therefore, whether I write or no, be assuredly persuaded that I have you in such memory as becometh the faithful to have of the faithful."
But that reminds me to tell you, Robin, that a strange man a gentleman they seemed to say has been seen upon our land, and he wanted to see me, without my father knowing it. But only think! I have never even asked you whether you are hungry perhaps even starving! How stupid, how selfish, how churlish of me! But the fault is yours, because I had so much to hear of."
But she did not descend, and the meal proved unpleasant beyond the ordinary, James drinking more than was good for him, and taking a tone, brutal and churlish, if not positively hostile. For some reason, the Colonel reflected, the young man was beginning to lose his fears. Why? What was he planning?
Ivan Fedorovitch would frown, shrug his shoulders, and at last give his opinion: "She needs a husband!" "God forbid that he should share your ideas, Ivan Fedorovitch!" his wife flashed back. "Or that he should be as gross and churlish as you!" The general promptly made his escape, and Lizabetha Prokofievna after a while grew calm again.
Kubbeling's eldest son and his churlish helpmate had fared forth to Venice instead of himself. They might not sail for the land of Egypt, and this chafed Uhlwurm sorely, by reason that he was sure in himself that he, far better than his master or than any man on earth, could do good service there to Ann, on whom his soul was set more than on any other of us.
He looked at Bailey, and Bailey signalled him to be firm. "Oh, no," said David cheerily. Thus sharply did I learn how much longer I was to have of him. Strange that a little boy can give so much pain. I dropped his hand and walked on in silence, and presently I did my most churlish to hurt him by ending the story abruptly in a very cruel way.
Such is he. But who is he? It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. I have told you that when I lived in London I was nothing as a host; but I will not claim to have been a perfect guest. Nor indeed was I. I was a good one, but, looking back, I see myself not quite in the centre slightly to the left, slightly to the churlish side.
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