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He was like a man who has escaped from a dungeon. The field was clear before him at last! His manifesto was going out to the world! They sat, gazing down the slope of the little vale. She was turning idly the pages of the book, and she read to him "Lovely all times she lies, lovely to-night! Only, methinks, some loss of habit's power Befalls me wandering through this upland dim.
You'll have two reefs in the topsails afore morning. There's five bells striking. Now, I'll turn in; if I didn't keep half the first, and half the morning watch, I shouldn't sleep all the night. I miss my regular watch very much, Mr Simple habit's every thing and I don't much fancy a standing bed-place, it's so large, and I feel so cold of my sides. Nothing like a hammock, after all.
A treacherous, cunning savage! I'd Well, I suppose you are right, boy. Habit's habit. But the British lawyers would tackle him afterwards, and he would get his deserts. They'd put a stop to him being Rajah of Dang any more. There, I've no time to stop gossiping with you." "But when may I get up, Doctor? It seems so absurd for me to be lying here." "That's what you think.
Yonder is Capernaum or it would have been more in our speech had I said, why, brother, yonder is Capernaum. But habit's like a fly, brother, it won't leave us alone, it comes back however often and angrily we may drive it away. Joseph made no reply, hoping by silence to quiet Philip's tongue which returned to the attack, he was fain to admit, not altogether unlike a fly.
Both had the restless eye, both the short-cropped hair, society's comment, congruous and auxiliary, though in itself faint by the side of habit's seal and Nature's.
Try to consider how it went with her. First intoxication of happiness; and must not intoxication in time wear off? Then immense intention and then dispirited in her intention. Then frequent resource to the stimulus of her realisation of virtue and then the natural diminution of that cup's effect. Is she not presented prey for her life's habit's longings? That was how it went with her.
"I profess, my good lady," replied I, "that had any one but you made such a declaration, I should have thought it as capricious as that of the clergyman, who, without vindicating his false reading, preferred, from habit's sake, his old Mumpsimus to the modern Sumpsimus." "Well," answered my aunt, "I must explain my inconsistency in this particular, by comparing it to another.
Thank Heaven! such has never been my maxim." "If the differences be the result of honest convictions on either side, no; but are you honest, Lumley?" "Faith, I have got into the habit of thinking so; and habit's a second nature. However, I dare say we shall yet meet in the arena, so I must not betray my weak points. How is it, Maltravers, that they see so little of you at the rectory?
'T is the aluminium in a man's bones that fats land roots or grass or corn. Anybody of larnin', 'll tell 'e that. Strip the belly off 'e, an', bone for bone, a lean man like me shaws as fair as you. No offence offered or taken, but a gross habit's mere clay and does more harm than gude underground." Mr.
"I am glad to see you have friends here," she added. "Only ane, mem. Gibbie an' me " "Excuse me, Mr. Grant, but would you oblige me of course with me it is of no consequence, but just for habit's sake, would you oblige me by calling Gilbert by his own name Sir Gilbert, please. I wish him to get used to it." "Yer wull be't, mem.
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