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His loneliness had disappeared as if by magic; as course succeeded course his contentment showed itself in a perpetually beaming smile: he ceased to worry even about his friend’s pedigree, convinced in his mind that manners so delightful and distinguished could only result from repeated quarterings and unoccupied forefathers.
‘Oh, dear, no, he’s alive enough, but he’s developed liver and that’s killed our love,’ was the cynical reply. It had. Devotion and dyspepsia are hard to reconcile and my friend’s husband had developed a nasty knack of throwing his dinner in the fire whenever it displeased him, a
Samuel Wilkins, and Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend’s young man, than if they was nobody! ‘What do you mean by that, scoundrel!’ exclaimed Mr.
"Your vows to never do things again are about as stable as your present hold on an upright position," said Clover, laying a steadying hand upon his friend’s waveringness. "Sit down, little boy, sit down." Burnett sat down, Mitchell smiled, Jack laughed, and Aunt Mary groaned.
The color now began to return to his face and at the recollection of his late rude words the big fellow blushed like a school girl. Gradually he recovered his self-possession, and, doffing his cap, made a low bow as graceful and as courtly as that of any polished courtier. This was an entirely new side to my friend’s character and I listened with interest when he said,
Samuel Wilkins was introduced to Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend’s young man, and they all walked on together, talking, and laughing, and joking away like anything; and when they got as far as Pentonville, Miss Ivins’s friend’s young man would have the ladies go into the Crown, to taste some shrub, which, after a great blushing and giggling, and hiding of faces in elaborate pocket-handkerchiefs, they consented to do.
Yet it was noticeable, that the child manifested an indescribable awe and disquietude, whenever she fixed her eyes on the bandage; for to her simple and affectionate heart, it seemed as if her dear friend Edward was separated from her, because she could not see his eyes. A friend’s eyes tell us many things, which could never be spoken by the tongue.
When I am received on entering a friend’s room with a chorus of yelps and attacked in dark corners by snarling little hypocrites who fawn on me in their master’s presence, I humbly pray that some such Nemesis may be in store for these faux bonhommes before they leave this world, as apparently no provision has been made for their punishment in the next.
Perhaps it’s safer after all.” “Well, you write.” “Why should I, rather than you?” “Because you’re his cousin.” Welsh considered again. “Well, I don’t suppose it matters much. I’ll write, if you’re afraid.” It was these amiable little touches in his friend’s conversation that helped to make Twiddel’s lot at this time so pleasant.
In consequence he was in a distress of mind, as he ascended the staircase which led to his friend’s lodging, to which his anxiety, as he mounted the hill on the other side of the city, was tranquillity itself; and, except that he was coming by engagement, he would have turned back, and for the time at least have put the whole subject from his thoughts.
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