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I knew very well what the skip was at." "Scamp, ma'am, and you will oblige me." "It wasn't a cut did it, Mrs. Mulroony; it fell off naturally, and by instalments or rather it was a cut, and that was what made you feel it; that youthful old gentleman, Time, gave it a touch with a certain scythe he carries. No such croppy as old Time, Mrs. Mulroony."
"No, no, I should not like to give you so much trouble." "But it will be no trouble. Let me fetch my bag." I went off in perfect good faith, anxious to oblige so charming a lady. I had not the slightest suspicion that she was playing with me. Silly ass that I was, I failed to detect the warning that dropped from her own lips.
He had said what had to be said, and he was no diplomat, to smile quietly with a devil lurking in the corners of his eyes. Meyer obligingly accompanied him to the door. "Can I oblige you in any other way with work, for example? I could very well find room for a worker who will make children's boots and shoes." When Pelle reached the street he drew a long breath. Poof!
If they oblige us to march triumphantly into Berlin, then we will do it if it takes twenty years. But the world will come to its senses some day, no matter how mad some parts of it may be now, and this is my feeling, that we ought when the thing is over to be able to look back upon a course which had no element in it which we need be ashamed of.
"Is that what brings you to Zenda, Prefect?" I asked. "Why no, sire; I am here because I desired to oblige the British Ambassador." "What's the British Ambassador doing dans cette galere?" said I, carelessly. "A young countryman of his, sire a man of some position is missing. His friends have not heard from him for two months, and there is reason to believe that he was last seen in Zenda."
"Anything to oblige a lady," he answered gaily, and so faced his God. Lord Macaulay, commenting upon these things and deploring the policies that brought them about, says with great significance: "There were Irish Catholics of great ability, but they were to be found everywhere except in Ireland at Versailles, at St. Ildefonso, in the armies of Frederic, in the armies of Maria Theresa.
"What an abominable litter!" said Mr. Linton, affecting displeasure. "Norah, kindly oblige me by getting those things out of your way. How are you going to eat breakfast?" "You're as bad as I am, Daddy!" "Dear me!" said her father. "I seem to be. Well, yours is decidedly the most untidy, so you had better begin." They watched the eager face as Norah turned to her bundles.
It is to be supposed that he made himself very agreeable to the servants, for within ten days of his coming they were almost falling over each other in their efforts to oblige him. At the same time, Mrs.
In generation, in nutrition, in preservation, we see nothing more than matter, variously combined, of which each has its peculiar motion, regulated by fixed and determinate laws, which oblige them to submit to necessary changes.
One never knows how to trust you women. I return, bringing you fresh honors and more wealth, and yet, tete-Dieu! you receive me like an enemy. My new government will oblige me to make long absences until I can exchange it for that of Lower Normandy; and I request, my dear, that you will show me a pleasant face while I am here."
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