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She had been a student of history and had inferred that modern warfare was as humane as war may be; witness the fine magnanimity of the Japanese, an Oriental race. This passing country, which she had known well in its hey-day, looked extraordinarily like the historical pictures of the invasions of Goths and Vandals and Huns. "Huns!"
He knocked, heard the grumbling of the old woman at her being obliged to rise from her chair: she opened the door, and Vanslyperken, as soon as he was in, slammed it to, and, exhausted with his emotions, fell back in a chair. "Hey-day! and what's the matter now?" cried the old woman, in Dutch; "one would think that you had been waylaid, robbed, and almost murdered."
Sometimes he could not realize that the great business he had created could be on the brink of failure. The routine went on as usual. At the works at Bermondsey the same activity apparently prevailed as when the Cure had reached the hey-day of its fortune some five years before.
What a gentleman old Frank was, to be sure! No wonder the queen was so fond of him, and all the Court ladies! Why, if it came to that, what wonder if Rose Salterne should be fond of him too? Hey-day! "Come in to breakfast, lad; and stop grinding and creaking upon those miserable limpets, before thou hast set every tooth in my head on edge!"
Of the hey-day of classic Rome he, who otherwise uses such measured terms, speaks with a glowing enthusiasm. He often avers that he belongs to no special school of thought; that he advocates no theory; that he is not the adherent of any party or sect. To him so he asserts an unprejudiced examination of all knowledge is sufficient.
"Stop her a moment," cries Jones "Here, madam, step behind the bed, I have no other room nor closet, nor place on earth to hide you in; sure never was so damned an accident." "D n'd indeed!" said the lady, as she went to her place of concealment; and presently afterwards in came Mrs Honour. "Hey-day!" says she, "Mr Jones, what's the matter?
"The birds have started already on their journey to the south," said he, after watching the flight attentively until they had finally disappeared in the cloud of mist. "The autumn has come to nature and to our lives as well." "Not to yours yet," objected his companion. "You are just in the hey-day of life, in the full strength of your manhood."
'Hey-day! what is all this about? exclaimed the former, encountering Mr. Woodbourne, as he came out of his wife's dressing-room; 'what is the matter now? 'I believe your daughter can explain it better than I can, answered Mr. Woodbourne, giving her the paper, and walking away to his study as soon as he came to the bottom of the stairs. As soon as Mrs.
Situated as thou art, in the very heart of stirring and living commerce, amid the fret and fever of speculation with the Bank, and the 'Change, and the India-house about thee, in the hey-day of present prosperity, with their important faces, as it were, insulting thee, their poor neighbour out of business to the idle and merely contemplative, to such as me, old house! there is a charm in thy quiet: a cessation a coolness from business an indolence almost cloistral which is delightful!
The Doctor, in his hey-day, had been cool over great things, but now, in his retirement, he was fussy over trifles. The man who had operated without the quiver of a finger, when not only his patient's life but his own reputation and future were at stake, was now shaken to the soul by a mislaid book or a careless maid. He remarked it himself, and knew the reason.
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