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Besides, I have thoughts of making this purchase, and I should wish things kept in order about the place; will you have the goodness to apply this small sum in the usual family expenses? He put into the Dominie's hand a purse containing some gold. 'Pro-di-gi-ous! exclaimed Dominie Sampson. 'But if your honour would tarry
It was the opinion of the village matrons who relieved Sampson on the latter occasion, "that the Laird might as weel trust the care o' his bairn to a potato bogle"; but the good Dominie bore all his disasters with gravity and serenity equally imperturbable. "Pro-di-gi-ous!" was the only ejaculation they ever extorted from the much-enduring man.
'Impossible, sir, impossible, said Mannering, making his escape from him. 'Pro-di-gi-ous! again exclaimed Sampson, following to the head of the stairs, still holding out the purse. 'But as touching this coined money Mannering escaped downstairs as fast as possible. 'Pro-di-gi-ous! exclaimed Dominie Sampson, yet the third time, now standing at the front door. 'But as touching this specie
This story will find some confirmation from the entry in the Journal under September 24, 1830: "I think I will be in the secret next week; unless I recruit greatly." In a letter to his son at this time he says the "sale of the Novels is pro-di-gi-ous. If it last but a few years it will clear my feet of old encumbrances." Life, vol. ix. p. 32.
Sampson gazed after her for a moment in utter astonishment, and then obeyed her directions, hurrying to Woodbourne at a pace very unusual for him, exclaiming three times, 'Prodigious! prodigious! pro-di-gi-ous! It is not madness That I have utter'd, bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Hamlet. As Mr.
SAMPSON'S APARTMENT. 'Prodigious, prodigious, pro-di-gi-ous! shouted the enraptured Dominie. Mr. Pleydell had left the party for some time; but he returned, according to promise, during the Christmas recess of the courts.
It was the opinion of the village matrons who relieved Sampson on the latter occasion, 'that the Laird might as weel trust the care o' his bairn to a potatoe bogle'; but the good Dominie bore all his disasters with gravity and serenity equally imperturbable. 'Pro-di-gi-ous! was the only ejaculation they ever extorted from the much-enduring man.
Besides, I have thoughts of making this purchase, and I should wish things kept in order about the place; will you have the goodness to apply this small sum in the usual family expenses? He put into the Dominie's hand a purse containing some gold. 'Pro-di-gi-ous! exclaimed Dominie Sampson. 'But if your honour would tarry
It was the opinion of the village matrons who relieved Sampson on the latter occasion, 'that the Laird might as weel trust the care o' his bairn to a potatoe bogle'; but the good Dominie bore all his disasters with gravity and serenity equally imperturbable. 'Pro-di-gi-ous! was the only ejaculation they ever extorted from the much-enduring man.
SAMPSON'S APARTMENT. 'Prodigious, prodigious, pro-di-gi-ous! shouted the enraptured Dominie. Mr. Pleydell had left the party for some time; but he returned, according to promise, during the Christmas recess of the courts.
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