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He assumed haughtiness and aimed at familiarity; he would put his hand on his breast and, taking yours, address you: "Good day, brother." He came there at nine o'clock in the morning, advanced, took my hand and said: "Good-day, brother, how are you?" "Very well, citizen, and how are you?" "You do not tutoyer you are not up to the Revolution?"We'll see will you step in the parlor?"
The very strongest of us. You're a young man, Archdeacon, by my years, and I hope you may long live to continue your good work in this place. All the same, you'll be old yourself one day. No one escapes.... No one escapes...." "Well, good-day to you," said the Archdeacon hurriedly.
He paused and looked Nat up and down captiously, as one might appraise the points of a horse of quality put up for sale. "Good-day," said he, with the most significant of winks. "Oh, that's all right," Nat hastened to reassure him. "I won't say a word about it." Burnham. Roland's consternation at this unexpected encounter was, in the mildest term, extreme.
Time that they came home, and the shop must be closed against the November wind which is twisting and turning the flames of the gas-jets. Look at them now: Bayard grown stout, portly, and covered with trinkets, while Leon, who has just entered the first class in pharmacy, has actually become a fine-looking young fellow. "Good-day, Mimi; good-day, Norine! Let us go right in to dinner.
"I feared reason was dethroned. Thank you, major. Good-day," and Colonel Killiam strode out of the room, rigid with indignation. Old Mrs. Gildenfenny received her invitation over a breakfast-table that stood against her bedside. The note was handed in by an aged servant, who thereupon leaned over her mistress's shoulder and helped her to read it. Mrs.
I've had a salary in an office for a year, and I had one pretty good day at the races " "You'd better go back and have another," said his step-brother. "You don't seem to comprehend your standing in Canaan." "I'm beginning to." Joe turned to the door. "It's funny, too in a way. Well I won't keep you any longer. I just stopped in to say good-day " He paused, faltering.
On the afternoon of their third working day, Jim and his mate were leaning on the windlass, talking to two or three men who had gathered about, waiting for one of the gold-buyers then riding along the lead, when they were joined by a tall, fine-looking digger, with a remark ably handsome brown beard and bushy brows. 'Good-day, mates!
Only mind you come and give us a look up soon, young gentleman, for I and my pals ain't seen you for a good while now, and was afraid something was up. Ta! ta! Good-day, young gentlemen all. By-bye, my young Nightingales." Loman's feelings can be more easily imagined than expressed when Cripps, saying these words, held out his hand familiarly to be shaken.
The Danish and the Swedish flags wave, and Danes and Swedes say, "Good-day," and "Thank you" to each other, not with cannons, but with a friendly shake of the hand; and they exchange white bread and biscuits with each other, because foreign articles taste the best.
The chief-justice was not above entering the chamber of council where Mariette held court; he cast the eye of a gastronome around it, and offered the advice of a past master in cookery. "Good-day, madame," said Josette to Madame Granson, who courted the maid. "Mademoiselle has thought of you, and there's fish for dinner."
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