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"What I would have looked for at your hands!" says he; and there was no mistake but what he said it civilly. I thought this better and better still, and as I began to pull on my hose, recalling the man's impudent mendicancy at Prestongrange's, I determined to pursue what seemed to be my victory.
"Not here," answered James Morris. "I have located a new post on the Ohio." "The Ohio!" came from the three Frenchmen simultaneously, and the others looked at Jean Bevoir. "Where upon the Ohio have you placed the new post?" demanded the French trader. His manner was so insolent that James Morris grew nettled. "Had you asked me civilly, I would have answered you, Bevoir," he returned.
But as we are neighbours, Trim, the best way I think is to let her know it civilly first quoth my uncle Toby. Now if I might presume, said the corporal, to differ from your honour Why else do I talk to thee, Trim? said my uncle Toby, mildly
A man in shabby workman's garb, dirty, greasy, and untidy a man with a degraded type of countenance, a heavy, coarse mouth, and small eyes looking out suspiciously from heavy brows. She shrank away a little, and almost unconsciously began to close the door, even while she civilly inquired his business. 'Is Wat in?
He was sent on board without hesitation. Lewis and the crew inquired how he had been used, and he answered, very civilly. "It's well," said the pirate, "for had you been ill treated, I would have put all these rascals to the sword."
I had heard a great deal about Dr Muir as a preacher, and we went to hear him; but not being very certain of the church, we inquired at a gentleman's servant, dressed in splendid livery, very civilly, the way to Dr Muir's church.
He was a small man with an Oriental cast of features and he wore a red fez. It sounds incredible, I admit, but such was the fact. He addressed me civilly, but in somewhat imperfect English. "Morning, sar. It is a fine walk-day." "Delightful," I assented. "My mistress, sar the Lady Allegra she will be obligated of the honor to have your company dinner. You have no engagement anticipatory?"
Give us both shelter, and thou shall have this angel for thy guerdon." She held the gold piece out as she spoke. The woman's fingers closed over it eagerly. "Back of the house are the stables," she said a trifle more civilly. "There will ye find food for the beast as well as cover. But thou wilt have to be thine own groom, young sir. These old bones be racked with rheums."
Somehow or other I have an equivocal amphibious kind of place in London society, which I don't like; on one side I am a patrician connection, whom the parvenu branches always incline lovingly to and on the other side I am a half-dependent cadet, whom the noble relations look civilly shy at.
Liddell declared he had taken a chill, and refused to get up. He was indisposed to eat, and did not show any interest in the newspaper. About noon the doctor called. Mr. Liddell answered his questions civilly enough, but did not respond to his attempts at conversation. "Your uncle is in a very low condition," said the doctor, when he came into the next room, where Katherine awaited him.
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