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"Oh," said the lawyer, "I am glad you have mentioned him, for it gives me an opportunity of saying that I have done all in my power to make him comfortable." "All in your power to make him comfortable! What do you mean?" "I mean that I have placed such a dinner before him as will please him; I told him to ask for just whatever he likes."
She paused for a moment at a table containing writing materials and bade the servant wipe it carefully and place it, with a case of scrolls, at one end of the wide, latticed window-couch, for here on the comfortable cushions Lazarus spent much time reading.
Clement had persuaded his mother to make this arrangement a settled thing; although as yet he had said nothing of his growing love for Margaret. Those Sundays were pleasant days to Clement and the girl whom he hoped to win for his wife. The comfortable elegance of Mrs.
"These people are of no further use to you. Only the other day, you were saying that you should not accept any more outside cases." "I must go," Peter Ruff answered. "I am not afraid of many things, but I should be afraid of disobeying this letter." They had a comfortable journey down, a cool, bright crossing, and found their places duly reserved for them in the French train.
Robin seemed much pleased with this change of position, and when I had washed and made him comfortable he declared that he felt 'first-rate. I had so much to do for my patient that I was obliged to let Sally tidy up the room in her usual scrambling way. The child had been sadly neglected by that time, and he was getting faint.
When he had stood on the hearth-rug, counting the pattern, and counting also the future chances of his own life, the remembrances of Mrs Bold's comfortable income had not certainly damped his first assured feeling of love for her. And why should it have done so? Need it have done so with the purest of men?
But there they lay; and it was with something like a sense of shame that I turned into my own comfortable bed. They were twenty-four very exciting hours that began when we moved from Jan Massibi's at daybreak on Wednesday and ended when we lay down to snatch a little rest at daybreak on Thursday.
"We've been very happy and comfortable here me and your mother and sister," continued Mr. Green. "Haven't we, Emily?" "Yes," said his wife, with nervous quickness. "And I hope you'll be the same," said Mr. Green. "It's my wish that you should make yourself quite comfortable here till you go to sea again." "Thankee," said Mr. Letts; "but I don't think I shall go to sea any more.
"He did not stipulate for any particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do. Perhaps it would have been as well if he had left it wholly to myself. He could hardly suppose I should neglect them.
I am telling you all this in order to ease your mind, for I see you are still far from comfortable on my account. All you have to do is to announce me as Prince Muishkin, and the object of my visit will be plain enough. If I am received very good; if not, well, very good again.
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