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In the open it crouches among dead leaves which have gathered in the fork of a tree, and will construct a web which spans the coconut avenue with its stays. From one aspect its rotund body invites a good-humoured smile, for the marking exactly simulates the features of a tabby cat, well fed, sleepy, and in placid mood.

"Well, well," said the good-humoured prince, "that cannot happen for another hundred years; and in the mean time my prospect will never be shut out. Let them build, or pull down the pyramids, if they will.

Erling told the rower to stop, and, glancing up, beheld the stern yet good-humoured visage of his bluff friend looking over the rows of bright shields that hung on the bulwarks. "All is well," replied Erling. "It is well for the King that it is so," rejoined Guttorm, "for my hand was itching to give him a taste of our northern metal.

Often was the observation made, for the article excited much attention it was so striking and able, keenly and drolly attacking absurdity and affectation, good-humoured and lively, and its praise so cordial and enthusiastic. Every visitor was sure to begin, 'Have you read the paper on modern poetry? 'Do you know who wrote it? or, 'Is it true it is by Mr. Fotheringham?

In November 1843 Miss Edgeworth went to London, and spent the winter with her sister Harriet, Mrs. Wilson. MARIA to MRS. R. BUTLER. NORTH AUDLEY STREET, Dec. 3, 1843. We dined at Dr. Lushington's last Thursday the dinner was very merry and good-humoured. Mr. Richardson was there, and delighted I was to see him, and he talked so affectionately of Sir Walter and auld lang syne times; and Mr.

"Why no, Denis, not well; unless, you know, she was to find your cow would not have any calf; eh?" "Oh, bother it for a calf then!" "No; for not being a calf, Denis." "Well then, yer honer, I'll jist go and spake to Father Cullen. Though he is not so good-humoured like, at least, he don't be always laughing at a boy." "Come back, McGovery, and don't be a fool. Father Cullen's gone to Dromod.

He had abandoned the Missionary Child and was reading a little dun-coloured book, and marking passages with a pencil. His face was absorbed, and it was a new face, not the vacant, good-humoured look of the garrulous bagman, but something shrewd, purposeful, and formidable. I remained hunched up as if still sleeping, and tried to see what the book was.

He listened in good-humoured silence to the remainder of his uncle's lecture, which speedily branched to political reform, thence to the theory of the weather-glass, with an illustrative account of a bora in the Adriatic; thence again to the best manner of teaching arithmetic to the deaf-and-dumb; and with that, the sandwich being then no more, explicuit valde feliciter.

Smith was a working man himself twenty-five years ago, and he owes all this entirely to his own industry and frugality. To which Mr. Smith immediately replied, in the same frank and good-humoured manner, 'Nay, I do not owe it all to myself; I married a wife with a fortune; for she was earning 9s 6d. a week as a weaver at the power-loom, when she married me."

And how many, my friends, when they come to church, harden their hearts in the same quiet, almost good-humoured way, not caring enough for God's message to be even angry with it, and take the preacher's warnings as they would a shower of rain, as something unpleasant which cannot be helped; and which, therefore, they must sit out patiently, and think about it as little as possible?