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Good-night, old fellow; it has been a real pleasure to meet you." And, positively, this was the only evening out of his whole wedding-trip that Maurice had thoroughly enjoyed. "What on earth kept you out so late with that solemn young prig?" says his wife to him as he opens her door. "I find him a very pleasant companion, and I have asked him to come to Kynaston," answers Maurice, shortly.
Some people were drinking at the well. A florid lady stood by a younger one, who had a little silver mug half-way to her mouth, and evinced undisguised dislike to the liquor of the salutary saint. "Drink, child!" said the maturer lady. "That is only your second mug. I insist upon your drinking three full ones every morning we're in town. Your constitution positively requires iron!"
I knew Billy well enough by this time to be sure it was no use, after once offending him, trying to cajole him back into a good-humour, so I left him. So the wretched weeks passed on, and I almost wished myself back at Stonebridge House. There at least I had some society and some friends. Now, during those lonely evenings at Mrs Nash's I had positively no one except young Larkins.
By this means, as we suppose, the affair became known to Colonel Clay himself; for a week or two later my brother-in-law received a cheerful little note on scented paper from our persistent sharper. It was couched in these terms: "Oh, you innocent infant! "Bless your ingenuous little heart! And did it believe, then, it had positively caught the redoubtable colonel?
While I do not go so far as to assert positively that Abbe Soulavie has once for all lifted the veil which hid the truth, I am yet persuaded that no other system of research is superior to his, and that no other suggested solution has so many presumptions in its favour.
He was a sympathetic man, and named a price which even then seemed to me low, and which was in reality so small that it would be positively unsafe to name to a master-printer nowadays. As far as I remember, I did not receive a proof, but my delight at seeing my verses come back in print was beyond words.
If they declare that it is they who are advancing towards unity, only the most simple-hearted among them believe it, so that one may positively marvel at such simplicity. Of a truth, they have more fantastic dreams than we.
"And secondly?" suggested Flemister, still with the nagging sneer in his tone. There was a little pause, and Judson listened until the effort grew positively painful. "The secondly is a weakness of mine, you'll say, Flemister. I want his job; partly because it belongs to me, but chiefly because if I don't get it a bunch of us will wind up breaking stone for the State.
England saw that she was able to overcome the danger. The German military leaders still spoke of the positively expected successes of their submarines, but the tenor of their predictions became very different. There was no longer any talk of the downfall of England within a few months.
They may proceed from piety and true devotion of the heart, out of the abundance of which the mouth speaks. Far from being wrong, this is positively good and meritorious. If this is done through force of habit, or is the result of levity, without the least interior devotion or affection, it is a mitigated form of profanity.
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