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"I thank your Excellency for your good counsel," replied the visitor courteously, "and as your Excellency had also a worthy and discerning father, I hope that you will likewise copy so bright an example, and tread in all his footsteps," an effective though a brutal rejoinder, for the first Lord Stair had betrayed his Sovereign.
"Yes, sir, I knows all that; but that lace was a heap more valuable than that toothache in that wuthless Dabney's jaw, which he could er wropped up, and hunted out all the old sheets for you instid of that petticoat with them real lace ruffles," was Mammy's firm rejoinder, while she passed a feather duster over the table and rolled her eyes at Dabney. "Let's let them both off this time, Mammy.
And his grace, the said captain-general, having heard the foregoing, which I read to him de verbo ad verbum, said that, not replying to what did not demand reply in the said response which had been written by one more blinded by passion than in the free use of his senses, or than by one of the descent which he claimed but confining himself only to the most essential points concerning the service of God and of the kings, he does deny everything which his grace says in his said rejoinder, evidences for which denial he will show in their propor time by documents worthy of credence before the sovereigns.
Soft sand will wash, mud will ooze up, and rank marine grass or seaweed will smother the young cells. But any hard bottom in warm salt water with a current is good for sponges." "I see," was the rejoinder. "As you say, the situation is not unlike farming. You can either farm cultivated sponge land or plant uncultivated land."
At that unkind remark, Alma's eyes filled with tears, but she went on silently with her work, making no rejoinder, while Lulu the reproaches of conscience rendering her uneasy and irritable fidgetted and fussed, thus greatly increasing the difficulty of the task.
"Then you have such certainty now?" interrogates Cypriano, a gleam of hope irradiating his countenance. For the figurative words lead him to believe that the gaucho has not yet revealed the whole of his scheme. "Of course I have," is Gaspar's rejoinder. "If I hadn't we might as well give everything up, and take the back-track home again.
At last, however, he got his rejoinder printed, and not on hard terms, since the medium, in every sense modest, did not ask him to pay for its insertion. But if Merman expected to call out Grampus again, he was mistaken.
This was the consummation of Cornelia's passionate hopes and torturing fears, of her dishonorable intriguing and reckless self-desecration. She became very calm all of a sudden, and, without making any rejoinder, she "came along" as he bade her, and they descended the hill.
This drew out a rejoinder. "Avaunt, vulgar toad, telling the men everything. Your coarse, ruddy cheeks are your own, and your little handful of African hair. But who is padded more? Why, you are shaped like a fire-shovel." "Ye lie, malapert." "Oh, the well-educated young person! Where didst pick her up, Ser Gerard?"
He may have been much of a brute, but he felt that, after all, that sort of thing was denied to dogs and pigs." The philosopher could not answer these thoughts nor the rejoinder question to his own: what is a man or woman to do that doesn't marry?
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