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The next morning Riddell and those interested in the discipline of the school were surprised to see that the excitement was apparently abated, instead of, as might have been expected, increased. The attendance at morning chapel and call-over was most punctual, and between breakfast and first school only two boys came to him to ask for permits to go into town.
I only had it made up last month. Do you like it?" Sarah answered that she thought it very pretty. But Esther could see that she was thinking of something quite different. "The race is over now. It's run at half-past two." "Yes, but they're never quite punctual; there may be a delay at the post." "I see you know all about it." "One never hears of anything else."
Just once she looked at her, and then smiled. Betty turned when she did so, and greeted that smile with a distinct frown of displeasure. Yet every one knew that Betty was to be the heroine of the evening. Punctual to the minute the guests arrived Sibyl Ray in her vivid-green dress, with the marguerites in her hair.
The commonest pattern, perhaps the commonest pattern certainly in Sunday schools and edifying books, and on all those places and occasions when morality is sought as an end is a clean and able-bodied person, truthful to the extent that he does not tell lies, temperate so far as abstinence is concerned, honest without pedantry, and active in his own affairs, steadfastly law-abiding and respectful to custom and usage, though aloof from the tumult of politics, brave but not adventurous, punctual in some form of religious exercise, devoted to his wife and children, and kind without extravagance to all men.
A punctual chap; this is the exact time and place for our meeting and he should bear tidings of interest in our affairs." The man, who was dressed like a farm laborer, responded carelessly to the Governor's greeting, and swung himself to a seat beside him on the abutment. "The young brother knows the wisdom of silence," remarked the Governor, laying his hand on Archie's knee.
He consented to reduce the tax to two millions of dollars, if Gotzkowsky would guarantee the punctual payment of the bonds given by the body of merchants, and give two hundred thousand of it in cash down, as hush-money to the Austrians. The latter declared himself gladly willing to accept the orders, and to stand security with his whole fortune for their payment.
The storm came on, and they sat and watched it. Supper time approached, and Master Cheese was punctual. He found some pickled herrings on the table, of which he was uncommonly fond, and ate them as long as Miss West would supply his plate. The meal was over when Jan came in. "Don't trouble to have anything brought back for me," said he. "I'll eat a bit of bread and cheese."
It was also true, that, after the first enthusiasm with respect to his lessons had passed away, as well as the natural diffidence he had at first felt in my presence, Luther Larkin, though punctual to the hour of recitation, had gradually fallen into a habit of more lively and discursive inquiry than that furnished within the dull range of his text-books.
Amid all the thankfulness, which Emily felt for this concession, she thought she observed a malicious triumph in his manner, when he pronounced the last words; but, in the next moment, she dismissed the thought, and, having again thanked him, commended her aunt to his pity, and assured him, that she would herself reward him, and would be punctual to her appointment, she bade him good night, and retired, unobserved, to her chamber.
He entreated me to see the woman, which I did. I wrote to ask for an appointment. She lived in Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square; but on the day after the morrow she was to change her lodgings to Queen Anne Street, where she would receive me at 11 A.M. I was punctual to a minute, and was shown into an ordinary furnished room. Nothing could have suited me better.
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