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Harris said: "The great thing is to make a good breakfast," and he started with a couple of chops, saying that he would take these while they were hot, as the beef could wait. Bar. falling." I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating.
"Suppose we do; we've got to get out somehow, haven't we?" "Yes, but she is the last one in the world we want to let us out. What a fix! If the girls only knew of it, they would come and let us out." "How could they when she has the key, I'd like to know?" Edith groaned: "I never thought of that plagued old key. Bother take her and it, too!
'Why are you not in Scotland? she said after she had given him her hand. 'Lady Helen told me last week she expected you in Ross-shire. Directly the words left her mouth she felt she had given him an opening. And why had Nature plagued her with this trick of blushing? 'Because I am here! he said smiling, his keen dancing eyes looking down upon her. He was bronzed as she had never seen him.
The fear of injury and death plagued him so that he broke down, but this breakdown did not last long, and he reentered athletics and did fairly well. Indeed, in order to break himself of fear, he became outwardly a rather daring gymnast, hoping that what he had so often read of the sickly and puny becoming strong and vigorous through training would be true of him.
He twitted me about it so that I declare I would have fought him, if I could have paid him first." "That's right," exclaimed Hugh. "Why, Holt, what a different fellow you are! You never used to talk of fighting." "But this fellow Meredith plagued me so! If it had not been for that shilling, I would have knocked him down.
"When I had got through my apprenticeship," said Michael, "at the mountain-town twenty miles from here, and was now come to work at old master Berenger's forge, I used to be plagued at first and quizzed by the other journeymen, as every younker is when he is fresh. When I grew tired of laughing and grumbled, we came to blows; I gave and got my share, as in such cases always must happen.
After all, again, the description would have plagued him more, and that must be both his and my comfort. So through the whole of that summer and the following winter, I went on teaching Tom Weir.
The country is terribly plagued with these vermin. I do not know how the settlers get on; perhaps they are accustomed to the infliction, but a stranger feels it severely.
He told us that there was a fine country beyond the mountains, fertile, but plagued with droughts and earthquakes, which latter, indeed, we often feel here. "The people of that country were, he said, warlike and very numerous but followed agriculture.
An' dun yo' remember, Betty, haa th' young gaffer laffed at me, an' said as aw could noan play wi' th' likes o' yo'? 'Yi, aw remember, Malachi; but ged on wi' yor tale. Mr. Penrose here is fair plagued. 'Indeed, I'm not. Go on, Malachi. Take your own time, and tell your story in your own fashion. 'Aw will, Mr. Penrose, if hoo'll nobbud let me.
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