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Little wonder if a'body's talking, when ye make a'body yer confidants! But as you say, Mr. Weir, most kindly, most considerately, most truly, I'm sure I have naething to do with it. And I think I'll better be going. I'll be wishing you good evening, Mr. Weir." And she made him a stately curtsey, shaking as she did so from head to foot, with the barren ecstasy of temper.
We have seen by what stratagem she had made it appear that Waife and his grandchild had sailed beyond the reach of molestation; with what liberality she had advanced the money that freed Sophy from the manager's claim; and how considerately she had empowered her agent to give the reference which secured to Waife the asylum in which we last beheld him.
But, in spite of her trade, her profession, as it is considerately called in this country, she is the most peerless creature; any man might have been duped." "And her name?" inquired Gaston, in an agitated voice, though he hardly needed the confirmation to his fears contained in Lord Linden's answer. "Mademoiselle Melanie!"
Servants and slaves are far better and more considerately treated by the natives than by the Europeans. Only the Turks hold slaves here. Although such strict decorum is observed in all public places, there is an utter disregard of it in the harems and baths.
Desai entered the room, "please make arrangements at Town Hall for Swamiji to speak there on yoga tomorrow night." As I was bidding the Mahatma good night, he considerately handed me a bottle of citronella oil. The following morning our little group breakfasted early on a tasty wheat porridge with molasses and milk.
The reception accorded to him at Caesar's table, he declared, had been flattering beyond all words. The godlike monarch had treated him more considerately, nay, sometimes with more reverence, than his own sons.
"Not since morning. Am I walking too fast for you?" "Not at all. One couldn't ask to be put off more considerately." "By Jove," he said involuntarily, his admiration getting the hotter of him. "I beg your pardon," with the slightly elevated eyebrows. "Do you know, you're not at all what I imagined you'd be." "Oh? And I fancy I'm not at all whom you imagined me to be." "Heavens!
In fine, that this fever may occur spontaneously, I admit; that its infectious nature may be plausibly disputed, I do not deny; but I add, considerately, that in my own family I had rather that those I esteemed the most should be delivered, unaided, in a stable, by the manger-side, than that they should receive the best help, in the fairest apartment, but exposed to the vapors of this pitiless disease.
Young de Vaux had in fact written a line or two to his mother, who was in New York, by the boat which he sent off immediately to engage a small steamer, as soon as the squall had passed over; and this note had been considerately forwarded by Mrs. de Vaux to the Van Hornes, as it mentioned the safety of their own son. It ran as follows: "Martha's Vineyard.
The civil housekeeper, who acted as my guide, offered to show me over them, but considerately added that she feared I should find them rather out of order.
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