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For instance, he soon came to know that his father and mother had very little money to spare, and that his father had to work hard to get what money they had. He learned also that everything that came into the house, or was done for them, cost money; therefore, for one thing, he must not ill-use his clothes.
But ask Quin, or anybody who knows her history, you will find she has had scores of lovers, and no one remains her friend after they part." "Men are such villains!" "Very likely," was the reply; "but twenty men don't ill-use one good woman; those are not the proportions. Adieu!" This last hit frightened Mr.
Now she saves every farthing for herself, buys us not even one old book. She does not ill-use us why? Because she is afraid of your father's ghost. Only this morning she told her Hottentot that she would have beaten you for breaking the plate, but that three nights ago she heard a rustling and a grunting behind the pantry door, and knew it was your father coming to spook her.
"It is perhaps better so," he said, in a low tone; "you will escape an unpleasant interview, and since she is not here to annoy or ill-use you, I will take the carriage and go to attend to a little matter, while you are packing. I will return for you in the course of an hour if that will give you time." "Yes, that will be ample time, and I will be ready when you call," Mona responded.
We have boasted to love each our own country, but have we cared at all for the other countries too? Verily I suspect that it is because we have not truly loved our own countries, but have betrayed them for private profit, that we have thought fit to hate our neighbours and ill-use them for our profit too. What a wonderful old globe this is, with its jewelled constellations of humanity!
People who are given to scandal and detraction may indeed make an ill-use of this observation; but truths, which are of service towards regulating our conduct, are not to be disowned, or even concealed, because a bad use may be made of them. This however would be effectually prevented if these two things were attended to.
I did not, for some weeks, strike or otherwise violently ill-use it, but gradually very gradually I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence as from the breath of a pestilence.
"What are they doing? Have they the heart to ill-use you? O master, God bless you! God shield you! I shall never see you, who was my only friend who was every one's friend any more!" Aram drew himself from her, and said, with a quivering lip to Rowland Lester, "If her fears are true if if I never more return hither, see that her old age does not starve does not want."
Old England: and may those who ill-use her be speedily kicked off. May Great Britain and Ireland be ever equally distinguished by their love of liberty and true patriotism. May every succeeding century maintain the principles of the glorious Revolution, enjoy the blessings of them, and transmit them to future ages unimpaired and improved.
Don't you think you can trust me?" "I do believe that I can trust you for everything good." "Is that nothing?" "It is a great deal, Larry, but not enough; not enough to bring together a man and woman as husband and wife. I would sooner marry a man I loved, though I knew he would ill-use me." "Would you?" "To marry either would be wrong."
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