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"And you're not trying to be on good terms, I suppose?" "Not I." "You are a remarkably silly young man. You want balance, Leicester, you want balance. It would be the making of you to have some serious purpose in life. You will run against something of the kind soon you'll get engaged, perhaps, and then you'll regret your happy-go- lucky ways."
I have had mules of her build with me in trains, in the Western Territories, that endured hardship and starvation to an extent almost incredible; and yet they were remarkably kind when well treated, and would follow me like dogs, and, indeed, try to show me how much they could endure without flinching. No. 6 is an off-wheel mule, of ordinary quality.
The artisans gained their political enfranchisement in 1867, and, though they made remarkably little use of it, still they had the power, if they had the will, to better their condition. But the agricultural labourers remained inarticulate, unnoticed, unrepresented.
During a second visit to the church we went in by the middle door, the medium course, as the proverb hath it, being the safest, and seeing the offertory box a remarkably strong, iron- cornered article, fastened to the wall we remarked to an official, in his shirt sleeves, who was with us, "This will stand a deal of money before falling."
This estrangement was the gradual work of some five or six years, during which my brother was between eleven and seventeen years old. At seventeen, I am told that he was remarkably well informed and clever. His manners were, like my father's, singularly genial, and his appearance very prepossessing.
"I'm a mere wreck of what I was, Nan." He did not say it bitterly, but he could not quite keep the sadness out of the uncompromising phrase. She looked up at him, studying his face intently. It had always been a remarkably fine face, and on it the suffering of the past year had done a certain work which added to its beauty.
Jack was a remarkably good swimmer and diver, so that after his plunge we saw no sign of him for nearly a minute; after which he suddenly emerged, with a cry of joy, a good many yards out from the shore.
The ladies asserted that he rumpled their dresses; the Judge asserted that there was no danger on that account, that everything would be found remarkably smooth, and stood zealous and warm in his shirt-sleeves beside the travelling-case, grumbling a little at every fresh dress that was handed to him, and then exclaiming immediately afterwards, "Have you more yet, girls? I have more room.
If I had only happened to be there at the time!" says Mr. Frank, shaking his fist murderously in the air, by way of a finish. "It's the greatest luck in the world that you were not," says I. "Have you got that other letter?" He handed it to me. It was so remarkably humorous and short, that I remember every word of it at this distance of time. It began in this way: "To Francis Gatliffe, Esq., Jun.
"Capitally placed!" "They speak remarkably good English, don't they?" said Mr. Blithers in an audible aside to Mrs. King. "Beats the deuce how quickly they pick it up." She smiled. "Officers in the Graustark army are required to speak English, French and German, Mr., Blithers." "It's a good idea," said he. "Maud speaks French and Italian like a native. She was educated in Paris and Rome, you know.