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That's the sort of song they might sing in the galley, y'know. Aren't you ever going to finish that story and give me some of the profits?" "It depends on yourself. If you had only told me more about your hero in the first instance it might have been finished by now. You're so hazy in your notions."
'Jan wants to bury his dog there, Antonia explained. 'I had to tell him he could. He's kind of like Nina Harling; you remember how hard she used to take little things? He has funny notions, like her. We sat down and watched them. Antonia leaned her elbows on the table. There was the deepest peace in that orchard.
Men have a way of despising a woman's notions of business matters; so I contented myself with asking if it was true that he was arranging to take a partner, and whether he would have to make any pecuniary sacrifice in order to effect this? He said 'Yes; but I've been just thinking he meant that in confidence." "You shouldn't tell it to me then." "But what?"
He was a young fellow not four and twenty, who had taken to poaching from the wild sport of the thing, and from some confused notions that he had a license from Nature to poach. I soon found out that he was meant for better things than to spend six months of the twelve in prison, and finish his life on the gallows after killing a gamekeeper.
Lucy Rose had done her brave best for some years in fact, ever since she had put up her hair and lengthened her skirts to break Aunt Cyrilla of the habit of carrying that basket with her every time she went to Pembroke; but Aunt Cyrilla still insisted on taking it, and only laughed at what she called Lucy Rose's "finicky notions."
He had just formed his connection with her who was to become the mother of his child. Augustin was nearly twenty. He had finished his studies in rhetoric within the required time. According to the notions of that age, a young man ought to have concluded his course by his twentieth year. If not, he was considered past mending and sent back there and then to his family.
" This story was false, and Hyrcanus was provoked against him; and all the Pharisees had a very great indignation against him. Now there was one Jonathan, a very great friend of Hyrcanus's, but of the sect of the Sadducees, whose notions are quite contrary to those of the Pharisees.
The subject of Indian children proved to be innocuous. They took coffee in John Gaviller's library. "Colina brought these new-fangled notions in with her," said her father. "They're all right!" said Ambrose soberly. Colina saw the hand that held his spoon tremble slightly, and wondered why.
"Our virtues or our vices, whichever we give the stronger hold on us, become more marked as we approach Judgment. When we finally go, we are prepared for the place that has been prepared for us." "But why do you put up with his impudence?" "What can we do? He has political power and is our only protection against the people. They have been inflamed with absurd notions about their rights.
Moreover, she had notions about house-keeping, especially about house-keeping in the country, which she wanted to put into practice. We found a confirmation of my destiny in the ease with which the preliminaries of my search were accomplished.
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