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"Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce my friend, the lyte Mr. Ryzors. Jemima, show the deceased gentleman to his chair. Miss Walker, Mr. Ryzors. He is really 'appy to myke your acquaintance, Miss Walker, though at first sight he may not appear so. Wot you might be apt to mistyke for coldness is merely 'is intense reserve." "Oh, dry up, Spinks." No, Mr.
"Bless you, my boy!" he said comically, but his undertone held intense relief, which did not escape Jack's ears. The fish and coffee were ready now, and all three waded into that breakfast with fine relish. Then came the arduous portage around Red Rock Falls, a difficult task which occupied more than an hour.
Then a smile and look of intense delight overspread his face, except, indeed, the mouth, which, being firmly fixed to the hole in the nut, could not take part in the expression; but he endeavoured to make up for this by winking at us excessively with his right eye. At length he stopped, and, drawing a long breath, exclaimed "Nectar! perfect nectar!
He found himself upon the opposite of the river to that at which he had entered the stream, but as his quarry was upon the bosom of the water it made little difference to the ape-man upon which side he took up the pursuit. To his intense chagrin he soon found that his leg was more badly injured than he had thought, and that its condition seriously impeded his progress.
The water on which we rested was at some little distance from the creek, in a long narrow lagoon, but we had scarcely any shade from the intense heat of the sun, the water being muddy, thick, and full of frogs and crabs. I have observed upon the extreme and increasing heat that prevailed at this time.
The result of this election was looked forward to with eager expectation by men of all shades of politics throughout the length and breadth of the land. In Glasgow, as we can well remember, the excitement was intense, although the proceedings were, upon the whole, of an orderly character. Mr.
They were most intense; and on the third day after he was attacked, at six o'clock in the afternoon, he went from an earthly to a heavenly home; from the bosom of his mother, to the bosom of his God! There were few intervals of sufficient ease, to allow of conversation.
This challenge was generally couched in rhyme, and either sent by the hands of a common friend or posted upon the chapel-door. These contests, as the reader perceives, were always public, and were witnessed by the peasantry with intense interest.
Hubert Price is not married, and shall consider it a great point in our favour if on returning to town I find he is not. Then assuming a lighter tone, for the nervous strain of the last ten minutes had been intense, he said: 'If he is not married, who knows you may take a fancy to him, and he to you; then things would be just the same as before only better.
Eugene saw at once that this man was living in that intense atmosphere of commercial and financial rivalry which makes living in New York so keen.
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