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Apparently, however, Dryfoos daunted him somehow; and besides the homage which those who have not pay to those who have, Fulkerson rendered Dryfoos the tribute of a feeling which March could only define as a sort of bewilderment. As well as March could make out, this feeling was evoked by the spectacle of Dryfoos's unfailing luck, which Fulkerson was fond of dazzling himself with.
Just to think how fond of preserved ginger poor Martin was, and how little of it he was allowed to eat! There really seems a special Providence in my having such a nice stock of it in the house when his daughter comes home."
He was fond of music, and afterwards became illustrious as the Fifth Henry of English history. Who could have foreseen, when first he put on his spurs by the wood's side, in Catherlough, that he would one day inherit the throne of England and make good the pretensions of all his predecessors to the throne of France? Richard's advance was slow and wearisome in the forests of Idrone.
He gave one to the little servant who had been used to wait upon the Costigans, and another to the children, because they said they were very fond of her. It was but a few months back, yet what years ago it seemed since he had first entered that room! He felt that it was all done. The very missing her at the coach had something fatal in it.
This father, though he loved his offspring with an affection as intense as that which human nature can supply, was not gifted with the knack of making children fond of him; for it is hardly more than a knack, that aptitude which some men have of gaining the good graces of the young.
I am sure of this." "Perhaps when you see each other " "Our letters are far more satisfactory than our meetings. I know he is fond of me." "You couldn't doubt that. It is worship." "I can say, at any rate, that I am so sure of his affection that it gives me no pain not the least to miss the the other quality." "My dear, you are not in love with him, or you couldn't be so resigned."
"Why why " he exclaimed. "Two weeks ago. Jadvyga! She told me so the night it snowed, and she could not get home." "There must be some mistake," declared the girl, again; "she didn't come here." He steadied himself by the doorsill; and Jadvyga in her anxiety for she was fond of Ona opened the door wide, holding her jacket across her throat. "Are you sure you didn't misunderstand her?" she cried.
'You said the young lady was "strange from a child, very strange. Fond of the men." Happily for our sex, and for the world, it is not so very strange or unusual to take pity on us. 'She has always been queer. 'You do not hint at any cerebral disequilibrium? asked Merton. 'Would you mind saying that again? asked Mrs. Nicholson.
He paused with a curious, half-tender look in his face. "There was a girl, Jack, good as they're made, I still believe, though not in our station. Well, I meant to marry her thought I was strong enough to defy the system and she, not knowing what manner of life I was meant for, was fond of me." "What manner of life were you meant for?" Jernyngham laughed harshly.
'It is not a real strawberry; it is emery; I made it myself. "And the fact of having sacrificed something for Mrs. Moss made me almost fond of her. Moreover, there was an expression in her eyes at that moment which gave them beauty. She looked at my grandmother and laid her hand on my head. "'I lost all mine, Elizabeth.
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