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Upon fete days they come out with gay silver ornaments upon themselves and their horse-trappings. Their saddles are very clumsy and heavy, and are seldom used by Europeans, who, as Mr. Hardy had done, generally bring English saddles from home. After an absence of a month Mr.
"I am sorry that my presence should be so distasteful to you," said the mortified Hardy. "Distasteful, sir?" said the captain, sternly. "You have forced yourself on me for twice a week for some time past. You have insisted upon talking on every subject under the sun, whether I liked it or not.
The leaven of the unlucky alliance with Lord North was but too visible in many of the measures of the Ministry in the jobbing terms of the loan, the resistance to Mr. "The Coalition Ministry," says Mr. Hardy, "displayed itself in various employments but there was no harmony. The old courtiers hated the new, and being more dexterous, were more successful."
A group stood round the bed, watching, with thrilling anxiety, the face of the doctor as he held the inanimate hand of George Weston. You might have heard the ticking of his watch as he stood there and gazed in the face of the patient, while Mrs. Weston and Mr. Brunton and Charles Hardy waited motionless, almost breathless, to hear his verdict.
He treated her at first with patent medicines purchased at the chemist's, a doctor being regarded by both of them as a piece of unnecessary extravagance; but in spite of four infallible remedies she got steadily worse. Then a doctor was called in, and by the time Captain Hardy returned home she had made a partial recovery, but was clearly incapable of further work.
What a hardy plant was Shakspeare's genius, how fatal its development, since it could not be blighted in such an atmosphere! It only brought human nature the closer to him, and put more unctuous earth about his roots.
Some one opened a window of the house giving on to the lawn, and the last house-fly blundered out into the cold air; and a company of gnats surely the most hardy of insects was dancing in the pale sunlight by the summer-house, above the snow.
It may be that he invented the strangest form of double-runner that I have heard of, and which was used on Ponkapoag Hill, but I fancy not. That I guess was an inspiration worked out on the spat by some hardy Yankee. It consisted of a great wood-sled on which half the village could be accommodated.
The dhow was accordingly brought alongside, and now began the task of removing the unhappy beings to the ship. The men eagerly came forward to assist in carrying the weak and helpless creatures up from the hold of the slaver, the horrible odour from which was sufficient to overcome the most hardy.
DIRECT it, that's their word; but we're not going to be humbugged." "Too wide awake, I should say." "I should say so too. We are to be told off for the Bank of England, and they are to show it to us at the other end of Cheapside." "Bank of England," said Mr. Hardy, laughing; "that's a joke. You might run your heads a long while against that before you get in.
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