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"I remember his father when I was a boy," said Moulder, not troubling himself to take his pipe from his mouth, "Mason and Martock in the Old Jewry; very good people they were too." "He's decently well off now, I suppose, isn't he?" said Kantwise, turning away his face, and looking at his companion out of the corners of his eyes. "I suppose he is.
And I hate to spoil these two last days with a horrid squabble, when we six have been so nice and chummy and pleasant all the time we've been here. You needn't have much to do with Pauline, if you don't want to, but just for two days, can't you just be decently polite to her, and not say anything about this business?"
That was the truth; the young man had an unmistakable influence over his father, who positively appeared to be behaving more decently and even seemed at times ready to obey his son, though often extremely and even spitefully perverse.
"Now, here is a decently informed gentleman, claiming to be a Christian man, to have studied the Bible, and don't know who Noah was. Such an instance of human ignorance in these times, is shocking." "Oh! I understand now," said Smith, "he was the gentleman who built the ark. Well, go on with your anecdote."
Bedr el Gemaly he calls himself Armenian Mussulman, a sickening combination, and an awful brute to look at said your messenger was taken suddenly ill; pretends to be a dragoman." "What is he like?" "Rather like a partially decayed but decently dressed goat." "Don't rot. This may be serious." I described Bedr el Gemaly as best I could, feature by feature.
It is much more easy to predict whether a novel will pay or not than to prophecy about a drama. He should not, if he has decently sound reasons for self-confidence, be disheartened by two or three refusals. One man's taste might be averse to "John Inglesant," another's might turn against Ouida, a third might fail to see the merit of "Vice Versa."
Her warning had no effect. It was not meant to have any. She knew if he got to the mines and learned that her father was at the Junction he would return in no time to serve him. He was decently restrained now, but he swallowed her bait, hook and all: "Where do you think you can find horses?" he asked. "Where I work." "Where do you work?" "Sometimes here and sometimes up at Mr. Doubleday's cottage.
Now, my dears, you see how undesirable an inmate of any house I am rated to be. If you wish to retract your offer of a hiding-place for my old head, I shall not take it amiss. Thanks to Providence and my dear Frederic I have enough, to maintain me decently anywhere in this country. I shall never be chargeable to anybody for my food, victuals, and lodgings.
Soon an old darkey appeared in the doorway, with his hat in hand, bowing, and scraping with one clumsy foot. He was quite decently dressed in a baggy suit of black. His big, coarse shoes shone with a metallic lustre suggestive of stove polish. His bushy wool was gray almost white. After middle life, it is difficult to estimate the age of a Negro.
Stanton is judicious in making such public statements," said the former speaker, nervously; "he ought to consult his friends privately, and not bring temporalities into the pulpit." "That is to say, starve decently, and make no fuss," replied the other. "Nonsense! Who talks of starving, when provision is as plenty as blackberries?
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