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I condoled with him on having such a remarkably exclusive sister, but he did not take my sympathy in the proper spirit. My friends were most certainly getting out of hand. In St. Cuthbert's, Murray was the most sensible of the lot, because he enjoyed himself in a steady sort of way, saw the humorous side of everything and went to bed in decent time.
"Oh rats. Not that it isn't very decent of you, Ollie, it is and you'd do it but I wouldn't even be a person to let you " They were both on their feet, talking in jerks, ears strained for every sound from that other room. "It's perfectly simple nobody's going to pull any gunplay good Lord, imagine poor old Mr.
This is an unusual number; but the people understand that the young men and lads who have been with us for some time, who are baptized and accustomed to decent orderly ways, are not going to marry heathen wild girls, so they give up these young ones to be taught and qualify to become fit wives for our rapidly increasing party of young men.
"I have never known anything further heard no word made no inquiry. At that time, after my acquittal, my great-uncle, a well-to-do baker, settled a sum of money on the man who had been in his employ; the interest of it would support him in his incapacity to do a man's work and earn a decent livelihood. My uncle said then I was never again to darken his doors.
It occurred to me, as I stood at the window and saw Dinky-Dunk's lantern wavering about in the rain while he was getting the team and hooking them on to the buckboard, that it would be only the decent thing to send him off with a cup of hot coffee, now that I had the kettle boiling. But he'd martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.
His tailor admired his talent, his masterly command in choosing cloth and deciding on the cut among the countless designs. Result, he spent something like five thousand dollars a year on his clothes, and said ingenuously to the two artists, "How much less can a decent person spend if he wants to be presentable?"
Indeed, as Martin walked behind him to the bar-room, he could not help thinking that the great square major, in his listlessness and langour, looked very much like a stale weed himself; such as might be hoed out of the public garden, with great advantage to the decent growth of that preserve, and tossed on some congenial dunghill.
Some tribes make a decent snuff of the common trade article, but I never saw either sex chew perhaps the most wholesome, and certainly the most efficacious form. The smoking of Lyamba, called Dyamba in the southern regions, is confined to debauchees.
There can be no reasonable objection against them, because they allow of the acquisition of a decent and moderate competency. The only one that can be started will be, that Quakers may injure the temporal interests of their children, or that they cannot, upon this plan, leave them independent at their deaths ... That independence for children is the general aim of the world, I know well.
You know what I am as well as the rest of them, but you wait on me just the same as you would on" she hesitated and there was a little catch in her voice as she finished her sentence "just the same as you would on a decent girl." Jimmy looked at her in surprise.
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