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Martha, please put away those stockings for me to mend when I return; I cannot ask Effie to darn such holes for two little moles; she is only engaged to sew for boys." "But, mother, you don't like to sew stockings; it makes you tight in your chest.
Because he was always first in his classes at school, and could mend the water-pipes or the door-bell and take the clock to pieces, she seemed to think him a sort of prince. Nothing that Charley wanted was too much trouble for her.
I know it is a strange request, and if you refuse it, I doubt if there is another to whom I shall venture to make it. I confess also that I have been very ill, but I am now fairly on the mend, and there is a long time to recover my strength in before the harvest. To tell you the truth, we are much in want of a little money at the castle.
Who was he that could draw the line between John Martin and his friend A.M. Sullivan exempt the one, prosecute the other summon the former as a defendant and subpoena the latter as a crown witness? What was the object? It is plain. But their plot recoiled their device was exposed; public opinion expressed its reprobation of the unsuccessful trick; and now they come to mend their hand.
"Here he has got a splendid estate, and he will never be certain whether his own son or a stranger is going to inherit it after him. It is enough to make a man go out of his mind." "I don't see that that would be likely to mend matters," the doctor said dryly; "in fact it would lessen the one chance that exists of ever setting the matter straight.
I suppose a farmer's shirt and trousers may give at any moment," said Alice, "and if he can't get new ones he has to go to bed till they are mended." Oswald thought tin-tacks, and glue, and string must often be needed to mend barns and farm tools with if they broke suddenly. And Dicky said "I think the pictures of ladies hanging on to crosses in foaming seas are good.
He shook his head at the six-pound culprit who stood before him, waggling his stumpy tail in smug satisfaction over the success of his undertaking. "Change his name to Nimrod, Cis," he said gravely; "and send for Babe to mend her first emergency case." "Where is Babe?" Dr. McAlister asked, one noon in late May. "Here." Phebe's voice came from the piazza outside.
He had not planned it, although he knew, now, that had he not procrastinated his going, had he not drifted, he could have foreseen it. And now, going could not mend matters. The madness of it, the hell of it and the joy of it, was that no longer was there any doubt. Speech beyond speech, his lips still tingling with the memory of hers, she had told him.
This in fact was the spring of the year, when all things put forth new life; and we knew that the time was now come when we could once more range the woods and till the soil, and this made the boys leap for joy. Some planks had been blown off the roof of The Nest, and the rain had got in here and there; so our first job was to mend our house, and make it fit to sleep in.
"I must try and mend my ways, however. To return to the actual subject under discussion, then, I can really tell you very little about this young man." "You can tell me where he comes from, at any rate," Lady Mary remarked. Rochester shook his head. "He comes from the land of mysteries," he declared. "I really am ashamed to be so disappointing, but I only met him once before in my life."
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