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If to speak, therefore, in a dry and lifeless manner, is the true criterion of Atticism, they are heartily welcome to enjoy the credit of it: but if they wish to put their abilities to the trial, let them attend the Comitia, or a judicial process of real importance.
Ah, I would have laughed heartily then if I had known it! On the evening before my departure I had to leave with my mother this time I went to say adieu to mother Catharine. She asked me if I loved Abner. "Oh, yes, mother!" I replied, "I love him with all my soul"; and she said she was happy to hear it.
Tell me seriously what you wish." Richard stretched himself, turning his head in the hollow of his hands, and shrugged his shoulders slightly. "That is exactly what I would thank you so heartily to tell me," he answered. "Do I, or don't I seriously wish it? I give you my word, mother, I don't know." "Oh; but, my dearest, that is folly!
"I would, if I could do the taking." "That's piffle, Elizabeth." He sat down on the arm of a chair and looked at her. "Look here, what about this story the Rossiter girl and a few others are handing around about Dick Livingstone? You're not worrying about it, are you?" "I don't believe it's true, and it wouldn't matter to me, anyhow." "Good for you," he said heartily, and got up.
'No, you won't exactly be glad, Bell but, of course, I know you couldn't say you'll be sorry. Still, I shall come, for a day or two, all by myself. 'Come, and heartily welcome, Paula. 'Well now, that does sound a little different, I don't often hear people speak like that. She nodded a careless good-bye, and at once left the house. She went straight home. Mr.
“No, sir; I had two narrow escapes, but got off all right, and have brought you the list of gun-boats and row-boats that you required. I am afraid, though, that it will require careful opening, for I had to swim off to the boat.” “That will not matter as long as we can read it,” the lieutenant said. “Now you had better come to the captain and hand it to him.” “I am heartily glad to see you, Mr.
My mother made herself believe that he delighted in them; but, alas! it was far otherwise; for strange as it may appear concerning one whose later life was a continual prayer, in childhood he detested nothing so much as being made to pray, and to learn his catechism. In this I am sorry to say we were both heartily of a mind. As for Sunday the less said the better.
Simon let his hand fall, and said, "If there were a means of escaping from this infernal prison, it would certainly be most welcome to me, for I am heartily tired of being a prisoner here, after having prayed for freedom so long, and worked for it so much. So, if there is a means " "There is such a means," interrupted his wife. "Listen to me!"
We will give him the spare room." Philip said not a word. He at once built up a fire in the room, and in a few moments invited the man into it. "Brother Man," he said simply, "stay here as if this was your own house. You are welcome for the night." "Yes, heartily welcome," said Philip's wife, as if to make amends for any doubts she had felt before.
"Egad, old fellow!" he exclaimed, in low tones, "I'm glad to see you, though you have taken us rather by surprise. I'll not take back a word of the promise I made you, nor of what I've said about you, either." "I did not think you would, Hugh," Harold replied, grasping the proffered hand heartily; "I had a great deal of faith in you and in your word.
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