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Lady Wilts had assumed the right of a woman still possessing attractions to exert her influence with him on behalf of the family, for I had done my best to convince her that he entertained no serious thought of marrying, and decidedly would not marry without my approval. He acted on her advice to discourage the wilful girl. 'How is it I am so hateful to you? Miss Penrhys accosted me abruptly.
The young man looked up, hurt and annoyed at finding that the person was still to be dealt with. "If you will wait in there?" he groaned. Milt sat in there, which was a small blue tapestry room with hard chairs intended to discourage bill-collectors.
Her husband will help her more or less in the task, often bringing material and helping to place it in the negligent pile of which their nest is composed. But he does a good deal more fussing and cheering up than he does actual work, and she seems to depend much upon his cheerful presence for her happiness. It is hard to discourage Madam Sparrow when once she has set her mind on home-making.
At the same time, by the tact and good sense of Mercy, the whole party got over, Mercy remarking to the mother of the boys, that if she had as good ground to hope for a loving reception at the gate as Christiana had, no slough of despond would discourage her, she said.
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I said not a word to discourage the visions; we talked of how Coralie should make fame and he money; he grew enthusiastic, guttural, and severe on the Steinberg. I ordered more Steinberg, and fished for more enthusiasm. I put my purse at his disposal; he dipped his fingers deep, with an anxious furtive eagerness.
The fire burned brightly, and if there was a delicate odour of herrings and onions, 'twas the worst could be said, for none were to be seen. Indeed, a rich perfume fought with it, as if a hasty hand had dashed the odours of Araby here and there to discourage the herrings.
He came to the house one Friday night. "I knew I could learn to dance," he said, "in spite of all your taunts and jibes. That little fiasco last Saturday night " "Was perfectly awful," Deborah said. "Did not discourage me in the least," he continued severely. "I decided the only trouble with me was that I'm tall and I've got to bend to learn to bend." "Tremendously!"
He told her the news, in the fewest words possible. Even he observed that it seemed to excite her. "Oh, Mr. Null! who is to prepare him for what he will see in that room? Who is to tell him what he must hear of his mother?" There was a certain familiarity in the language of this appeal, which Mr. Null felt it necessary to discourage. "The matter is left in my hands," he announced.
Hammond went on: "When you get down to the Thames side you come on the Docks, which are works of the nineteenth century, and are still in use, although not so thronged as they once were, since we discourage centralisation all we can, and we have long ago dropped the pretension to be the market of the world.
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