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Her one vice was of the lighter sort the vice of curiosity; and among the many counterbalancing virtues she possessed was the virtue of greatly respecting Mr. Bashwood, as a lodger whose rent was regularly paid, and whose ways were always quiet and civil from one year's end to another. "What did you please to want, sir?" asked the landlady. "Boiling water, is it?
This gigantic sighing continued regularly, and Mr Cowlishaw had never heard anything like it before. It banished sleep. After about two hours of its awful uncanniness, Mr Cowlishaw caught the sound of creeping footsteps in the corridor and fumbling noises. He got up again.
As my pretence for withdrawing from the house was to allay my thirst, Kory-Kory, either suspecting some design on my part, or else prompted by a desire to please me, regularly every evening placed a calabash of water by my side.
Leaving the earl's service, in which I could not conscientiously remain, I again took regularly to the sea, and having so many friends along the coast, I was able without difficulty to dispose of my cargoes. A lady of some consideration in the county was one of my chief purchasers.
Enough for me, that I regularly offer sacrifices in their temples, and pour libations upon their altars. I care very little whether there be Elysian fields, or not. I will make an Elysium for myself, as long as Aspasia permits me to be surrounded by forms so beautiful, and gives me nectar like this to drink."
'There is a beastly bell for the out-of-door servants at Hulworth, said Toffy, 'which is beside my window, and 'I know that bell, said Peter. 'I tie it up regularly every time I am at Hulworth. 'Have you also got a country seat? asked Mr. Purvis. 'Oh, Hulworth is a mouldy old barrack, replied Toffy. "Country seat" is too fine a name for it. 'Is it quite near Bowshott? asked Purvis.
They are wont to complain that, as there are so few fathers, they are unable to attend, as often and as regularly as they desire, confession and communion which they seek with loving eagerness, not once, but many times during the year, to their own edification and profit.
Let us observe the contrast between the beginning and the present proportions of the Church. Instead of but six regularly affiliated members, and at most two score of adherents, the organization numbers today many hundred thousand souls.
While Plinny cultivated the Muse and with the more zest as, to her pride and delight, she found herself immune from sea-sickness I kept up, through the long mornings, the pretence of studying mathematics with Captain Branscome, and regularly at noon received a lesson in taking the ship's bearings.
After a time he bethought him that he was yet two and a half miles from town and very hungry. He arose, somewhat stiff, and put the shining clod in his coat-tail pocket. On his way back to the road he noticed other little earth lumps that shone. He resumed his walk townward, his knees shaking regularly at every step, as was their wont.
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