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He said that for four and eightpence one couldn't find its match in Lunnon itself, and obligingly took off twopence when I pointed out Vesuvius hadn't a fuse. With the crackers in my pocket and the volcano under my arm I set forth in the pleasant summer morning to walk to Castle Fyles, having an idea to rest by the way and celebrate the Fourth in the very heart of the hereditary enemy.
He had spent several years in Scotland, and he felt sure, he obligingly told the others, that this new locality was far more like the Ben Lomond country than any other spot on earth. He was so positive, he made the doctor, a New Zealander, smile quite broadly. "It is just like the hills near my home," he stated, with an air of finality which made further discussion useless.
"What name might I have the honor of entering on my books, sir, if you please?" inquired the host, as he obligingly took his seat opposite his guest. "What name might you have the honor of entering on your books?" repeated the stranger, helping himself to a huge slice of ham.
He obligingly sauntered on the hill overlooking the Fox; I stepped upon the gallery and looked in. The sweep of a gray dress showed in front of the settle. Eagle was there. I stood still. She had put on more wood. Fire crackled in the chimney.
Hearing the commotion, Caroline tottered downstairs and swooned again at our feet, yet was scarcely heeded all crowding round Wickham, who obligingly soothed our anxiety. "When," he said, "the officers of our regiment returned to Chatham from the enjoyment of Mr Darcy's hospitality, the incidents of their stay were naturally broached, and Willoughby spoken of.
"Well, I'll be damned! You don't mean to tell me that woman was up here to get " "My soiled office linen," Prim obligingly finished. "She was, and I let her have every scrap of it," he answered symbolically. He turned, seized his collar and tie, and reached for the button at the back of his neck.
We were told, madam, in England, there was one Miss Flora Macdonald with him. She said, 'they were very right'; and perceiving Dr Johnson's curiosity, though he had delicacy enough not to question her, very obligingly entertained him with a recital of the particulars which she herself knew of that escape, which does so much honour to the humanity, fidelity, and generosity, of the Highlanders.
Perhaps they used rather low mountains to measure them by. Or the measurements may not have been very exact. But common report never leaves much to the imagination." "That was the way at Niagara," the girl assented; and Breckon obligingly regretted that he had never been there. He thought it in good taste that she should not tell him he ought to go.
"I wouldn't say that, quite," observed Mr. Jope pensively. "To begin with, he'd had the small-pox." "De gustibus nil nisi bonum," Mr. Whitmore observed soothingly. "What's that?" "Latin." "Wonderful! Would ye mind saying it again?" The words were obligingly repeated. "Wonderful! And what might be the meaning of it, making so bold?" "It means 'Speak well of the dead."
If it be objected to the present work, that it exhibits nothing new; that the experiments are founded upon the simplest rules of nature; that most of the things have been rehearsed in various forms; it is not necessary to deny or to conceal the fact, every other consideration having been subordinated to one leading object, and that is GENERAL UTILITY. It is but justice however to add, that many of the articles are perfectly ORIGINAL, having been extracted from a variety of unpublished manuscripts, obligingly and expressly furnished in aid of the present undertaking.
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