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'What, you thought a stationer must be stationary? 'O Mr. Underwood, what a shocking pun! and she was led off sparkling with pretty laughter; while the conjuror muttering, 'The gouty oak began to move And flounder into hornpipes, turned graciously on little Susie Vincent, and scared as much as he elevated her, by claiming her as his partner.
"Westover Fair View," he said to himself, and smiled, and smelled the lilac; then though his ills were somewhat apocryphal walked off at a gouty pace across the buttercup-sprinkled green toward the house of Dr. Contesse. Haward and Evelyn, left alone, kept silence for a time in the quiet room that was filled with late sunshine and the fragrance of flowers.
He is attacking me." "You surely do not think I was attacking Don Carlos!" Decoud answered. And then the carriage stopped before the door of the Casa Gould. The young man offered his hand to the ladies. They went in first together; Don Jose walked by the side of Decoud, and the gouty old porter tottered after them with some light wraps on his arm.
The old lady bent above them, silent and puzzled, to get the key to the strings. Twice she protruded her gouty fingers, with swollen ends; and twice she drew them back to stroke her brows. 'I mind, she said suddenly, 'that I played cat's-cradle with my cousin Anne, that was a sinful queen. She bent again and puzzled about the strings. 'In those days I had a great skill, I mind.
At last Lord Longford discovered that this gentleman's gouty overalls covered fetters; that he was a malefactor in irons, and his companion a Bow Street officer, who treated his prisoner with the greatest politeness. "Give me leave, sir excuse me one on your arm and one on mine, and then we are sure we can't leave one another."
By accident, Clifford trod on the squire's gouty digital; and in apologizing for the offence, was so struck by the old gentleman's good-nature and peculiarity of expressing himself, that without knowing who he was, he entered into conversation with him.
By accident, Clifford trod on the squire's gouty digital; and in apologizing for the offence, was so struck by the old gentleman's good-nature and peculiarity of expressing himself, that without knowing who he was, he entered into conversation with him.
A dwarf-stemmed species of recent introduction, and one which, owing to the beauty of its flowers and the hardy nature of the plant, is certain to find much favour among growers of Cactuses. The stem is about 9 in. high, by 2 in. to 4 in. in diameter, the base much wider than the apex, the ridges irregular, very thick and rounded, giving the stem a gouty or tumid appearance.
Allen, who owned the chief of the property about Fullerton, the village in Wiltshire where the Morlands lived, was ordered to Bath for the benefit of a gouty constitution and his lady, a good-humoured woman, fond of Miss Morland, and probably aware that if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad, invited her to go with them. Mr. and Mrs.
Piero, his son, gouty and altogether without energy, was content to confirm his political position and to overwhelm the Pitti conspiracy.
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