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He is a gargoyle, and his mouth, like the mouths of so many gargoyles, is always open. He is garrulous, exuberant, flowery, preposterously sociable. He holds that great creed of the convivial, the creed which is at the back of so much that is greatest in Dickens, the creed that eternity begins at ten o'clock at night, and that nights last forever.
Harry was going to stay at the 'Crown, but he met Tom Robinson, who said he should be his guest, and carried him off to his house." "Just like Tom Robinson!" declared Annie with amazing asperity. "Come along, May." Rose hurried away her sister and satellite, and then let loose her glee. "It is too funny, May; too preposterously funny. It is ever so much better than Dora and Tom Robinson.
Worthington estimated his fortune at fifteen millions, growing at the rate of a million yearly, and was not preposterously far afield. It was all that Dr. Surtaine needed. He enjoyed his high satisfaction as a hard-earned increment. Something more than satisfaction beamed from his face this blustery March noon as he awaited the Worthington train at a small station an hour up the line.
What she feared was that she would never be able to wake herself in time, and she went to bed at a preposterously early hour, and sat long in her night-dress, thinking how to manage it. At last it occurred to her that if she tied her great toe to the bed-post with a piece of string, it would give her a jerk when she moved, and so awake her. The contrivance answered only too well.
And she had said no more, because it embarrassed him, but she suited her pace to his after that, never forgiving herself for her thoughtlessness. And she chose, instead of the hill roads, the level, winding lanes. For five perfect spring days they spent their mornings out-of-doors in the sun, lunched, parted until tea, met at dinner again, and said good night at a preposterously early hour.
The boatmen caught at this, as a drowning man catches at a straw, and put in bids at rates preposterously low, all except Cornelius Vanderbilt. "Why don't you send in a bid?" asked his father. "Of what use would it be?" replied the son. "They are offering to do the work at half-price. It can't be done at such rates." "Well," added the father, "it can do no harm to try for it."
She brushed and combed the silver-haired terrier, who looked abjectly depressed whilst this was doing, and preposterously proud when it was done. She washed her own hair, and studied her Sunday-school lesson for the morrow whilst it was drying. She spread a colored quilt at the foot of her white one for the terrier to sleep on a slur which he always deeply resented.
The chapters are preposterously distributed, not according to their date or connection, but according to their length, beginning with the longest, and ending with the shortest; and thus the work becomes often the more unintelligible by its singular arrangement. This work and its commentaries are held in the highest reverence by the Mohammedans.
His face is generally hidden in his hands, but once or twice he lifts it to scan the proportions of my late grandfather's preposterously fat cob, whose portrait hangs on the wall above his head. There is no doubt that on some days the devil reigns with a more potent sway over people than on others. To-night he has certainly entered into the boys.
These are men that have the mark of the beast in their foreheads and right hands; they are lost beings themselves, but have no influence over others. Let them perish in their sins; for they shall not be meddled with by me." "How preposterously you talk, my dear friend!" said he. "These people are your greatest enemies; they would rejoice to see you annihilated.
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