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Their address was humble I remember afterwards thinking it had been the only thing about them that was really professional and I could fancy the lamentable lodgings in which the Major would have been left alone. He could sit there more or less grimly with his wife he couldn't sit there anyhow without her.
And as she continued to keep her eyes closed he contented himself by watching the lashes resting on her pale cheeks. "Ketch a little nap if you can, that's right," he said. She kept silence. She did not know how long the blessed relief from his voice had lasted when he announced their arrival. "Be it ever so humble," he remarked, "There's no place like home."
They contain my jests, my sportive fancies, my loves, sorrows, displeasures and wrath, described sometimes in a humble, sometimes in a lofty strain. My object has been to please different tastes by this variety of treatment, and I hope that certain pieces will be liked by every one.
"Sir," said Farmer White, "I humbly thank you for all your kind instructions, of which I shall now stand more in need than ever, as I shall have more duties to fulfill. I hope the remembrance of my past offenses will keep me humble, and that a sense of my remaining sin will keep me watchful.
It was very dark a strange, livid darkness. "A thunder-storm," he muttered, and then he thought of his new clothes what a misfortune it would be to have them soaked. He arose and pushed through the thicket around him into a cart path, and it was then that he saw the thing which proved to be the stepping-stone toward his humble fortunes.
I am an insignificant little person; there is nothing proud or great about me, and as I know it full well I am quite humble; in all my life I never dared to think of scorn, even of a child.
"Ain't it lovely?" sighed the humble twain, who had done most of the labor, but who generously admired the result. "I hate to have to take it down," said Alice, "it's been such a sight of work." "If you think you could move up some stones and just take off the top rows, I could step out over," suggested Charlotte Corday.
"This accession of territory," he said, "strengthens for ever the power of the United States, and I have just given to England a maritime rival that sooner or later will humble her pride." In the East there seemed to be scarcely the same field for expansion as in the western hemisphere.
Our friend, Mr Palliser, I am proud to say, relies much upon my humble friendship. Our first connection has, of course, been political; but it has extended beyond that, and has become pleasantly social; I may say, very pleasantly social." "What a taste Mr Palliser must have!" Alice thought to herself. "But I need not tell you that Lady Glencowrer is very young; we may say, very young indeed."
Every countenance beamed with delight at the happy termination of the interview, and the multitude gave vent to their feelings, in a loud, long, and general shout. For my part, I need not say, I cannot tell the heartfelt gratification, I felt at that moment. But this is not the most important good, that I have been the humble means of effecting at this place.
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