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Now, notice the bits of ancient stained-glass in the windows, and the cedar paneling; except for that, there is nothing specially noteworthy here." As they left the Dean's Yard and crossed the open space in front of the great western towers of the Abbey, John and Betty agreed that if they could see nothing more in England, they were already repaid for their long journey across the ocean.
If it's the money, and you are in a hurry to be repaid " "I'm not. I'm not! I don't care if you never pay..." Tears of distress rose in Claire's eyes, she caught her breath and cried in a choking sob. "Cecil, it's about him! I've found out something. I've seen him... Only last night..." "I thought you might meet as his camp was so near. Suppose you did! What was so terribly alarming in that?"
All were heartily tired of a navigation full of danger, in which the utmost perseverance had not been repaid with the slightest prospect of success. Notwithstanding the tedious voyage to be made, and the immense distance to be run, every one seemed to feel and speak as though they were once again approaching the shores of Old England.
But Louison, the wife, upon sufficient pressure, had brought her child to the Melroses, and had doubtfully disappeared, and Theodore had returned from his wanderings to live, silent and unobtrusive, in his mother's home, for several years, and to die with his daughter beside him, and be duly laid in the Melrose plot at Woodlawn. And Leslie Leslie had repaid them all, for all of it.
Those members who are willing to contribute their votes and their views but very little else have created a serious deficit by refusing to pay their share of special UN assessments. Yet they do pay their annual assessments to retain their votes and a new UN Bond issue, financing special operations for the next 18 months, is to be repaid with interest from these regular assessments.
He did not seek to conceal them. He said: "We have been very old friends; I knew you would feel for me, childless as I am. She had become an object of very near interest to me, and repaid my care by an affection that cheered my home and made my life happy. That is all gone.
He looked threateningly around, and his eyes fell on Chupin. "Is it you?" he demanded. "Do you dare to assert that you discovered the brigand?" "Yes, it was I who discovered his hiding-place." "You lie, impostor!" vociferated the innkeeper; "you lie!" The soldiers did not move. This scene repaid them for the disgust they had experienced during the afternoon.
But they were, one and all, convinced that the matter had been arranged between him and his father. There was one from whom better things were expected than to advance money on post-obits to a gambler at a rate by which he was to be repaid one hundred pounds for every forty pounds, on the death of a gentleman who was then supposed to be dying. For it was proved afterward that this Mr.
If Percy could but think that it was "mean and sneaky" to endeavor to hide a fault, could but see how much nobler and more manly it was to make confession, and, so far as possible, reparation. True, the money had been repaid to Seabrooke; but through what a source had it come to him; and there were so many other things to confess, things which had led to this very trouble with Seabrooke.
How poorly the mother's service is repaid by men individually, and by society as a whole! The individual man feels that he has done much if he gives sufficient money and a LITTLE attention to her who brought him from nothingness into life and sacrificed her sleep and youth and strength for his sake.
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