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"Where's Bob?" he at once asked, missing the absentee. "Where's Bob?" "He's gone to bathe," replied poor Nell, very disconsolately. "He said he'd get here as soon as we did, but he hasn't come yet, and I'm afraid he'll be too late." "That he will," said the Captain, looking equally distressed. "I hear the steamer's bell ringing in fact, I heard it before, and that made me quicken my movements.
"Ah well, that's my misfortune," he said, "there are only two things I can say. The first is that if you work for me you will neither be distressed nor annoyed by any habits of mine which you may have observed and which may perhaps have prejudiced you against me. In the second place, I want you to promise me that if you ever leave Punsonby's you will give me the first offer of your services."
And now he fought the battles of King Aragus with a strong arm like his father Guy's, neither could any endure against his spear. But all these years Felice had passed in prayer and charity, entertaining pilgrims and tired wayfarers, and comforting the sick and the distressed. And it was so that Sir Guy, all travel-worn and with his pilgrim's staff in hand, came to her house and craved an alms.
Otis, were naturally extremely annoying, but what really distressed him most was, that he had been unable to wear the suit of mail.
The friendly pressure, however, evidently meant enough to the distressed woman. 'Thank you, dear, she said gratefully. 'You re very good to me. I know you mean it, too. Only, you re not placed as he is. If you were my daughter, you would think as he thinks you would not live under my roof! Perhaps you would not even see me when we met in the street! You would look the other way!
How, Upon The Quarrels One Against Another About The High Priesthood Antiochus Made An Expedition Against Jerusalem, Took The City And Pillaged The Temples. And Distressed The Jews' As Also How Many Of The Jews Forsook The Laws Of Their Country; And How The Samaritans Followed The Customs Of The Greeks And Named Their Temple At Mount Gerizzim The Temple Of Jupiter Hellenius.
"But meantime the summer's going and nothing will be done," was The Pilot's distressed and impatient answer. So a meeting was called to discuss the question of building a church, with the result that the five men and three women present decided that for the present nothing could be done.
She at once fell in with his idea about getting their mother over to London, but when he mentioned his views about her furnishing a house so as to offer a home to his friend Aspel, she was apparently distressed, and yet seemed unable to explain her meaning, or to state her objections clearly. "Oh! Phil, dear," she said at last, "don't plan and arrange too much.
Some time had elapsed after his elevation, when Abou Neeut one day giving audience in the magnificent hall of one of his country palaces, beheld a man among the crowd of a sorrowful aspect, dressed in a wretched habit, who cried, "O true believers, O charitable gentlemen, relieve the distressed!"
At the seaport in Scotland where he had served as vice-consul, law and order were as solidly established as the stone jetties, and by contrast the eccentricities of the Black REPUBLIC baffled and distressed him. "It can't be that you blackmail the president," said the consul, "because I understand he boasts he has committed all the known crimes." "And several he invented," agreed Billy.
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