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‘I daresay it is most refreshing then,’ said I; ‘but I have heard people say that they most enjoy it on a cold winter’s night, when the kettle is hissing on the fire, and their children playing on the hearth.’ Belle sighed. ‘Where does tea come from?’ she presently demanded. ‘From China,’ said I; ‘I just now mentioned it, and the mention of it put me in mind of tea.’
The girls, decked out in their savage finery, danced; the old men chanted; the warriors smoked and chatted; and the young and lusty, of both sexes, feasted plentifully, and seemed to enjoy themselves as pleasantly as they could have done had it been a wedding.
"I wish things could be cleared up so you could live here in peace and enjoy it, but I don't know how it's going to come out. It looks to me like I've made it worse." "It was wrong of me to draw you into it, Duke; I should have let you go your way." "There's no regrets on my side, Vesta. I guess it was planned for me to come this far and stop."
And then, when I get to be a Torch-Bearer, I'll have a pin, as well as the ring and the bracelet, and there'll be smoke on my badge, as well as fire and wood. But you have to work hard before you can stop being a Wood-Gatherer and get to the higher ranks. We all have to work all the time, you see." "I've had to work, too," said Bessie. "But this seems different because you enjoy your work."
This hearty breakfast is washed down with long drinks of palm wine, and followed by sundry pipes of tobacco; after which, happy souls! all enjoy a siesta, long and deep as that of Andine Mendoza; and they "kill time" as well as they can till evening.
His house was in a stately new street called Ormond Street, and in it he had a handsome library; but all the books treated of things that were past; none of them planned or looked forward into the future. I worked away partly for the sake of my family at home, partly because my uncle had really taught me to enjoy the kind of practice in which he himself took such delight.
John Kárpáthy pressed the extended hand to his lips, and, holding it in his palm some little time, asked "And ought I not to be afraid on your account also?" Fanny involuntarily glanced at her friend, as if to ask whether she also ought not to remain here. Kárpáthy guessed the meaning of the look. "No, no; I don't want you to remain here. Go and enjoy yourself! But take care of yourself.
The contagion of Milanese enthusiasm spread rapidly. Some of the Venetian towns on the mainland now petitioned for union with the Cisalpine Republic; and the deputies of the Cispadane, who were present at the festival, urgently begged that their little State might enjoy the same privilege.
I did not enjoy the delight of seeing the wit who indited the paragraph in question, but I have no doubt he is a prodigious man in his way, and held in high repute by a select circle.
I let myself go, and on these occasions, as you know, I speak to you not in the language of diplomacy, but as good friends who meet together to enjoy an hour or two of one another's company, and who, because there is no harm to be done by it, but much good, open their hearts and speak true words with one another." Monsieur Decheles smiled. "It is a pleasure which we all share," he declared.
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