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But somehow we managed to keep alive, shooting what we could and catching a fish or two now and then as we came up the river again. For of course we were not going to give up without finishing our job; and it seems to me that we got here just at the right time, and found that things weren't half so bad as we thought; eh, Count?" "My friend," replied the latter, "how can I ever repay you?"
Such a restoration would not only repay the debt of gratitude which the Royalist cause owed to the efforts of William's father in its support, but would remove the dread which the English government never ceased to feel of the encouragement which the Dissidents at home derived from the mere existence close by of a presbyterian and republican government in Holland.
"Perseus," said King Polydectes, smiling craftily upon him, "you are grown up a fine young man. You and your good mother have received a great deal of kindness from myself, as well as from my worthy brother the fisherman, and I suppose you would not be sorry to repay some of it." "Please, your Majesty," answered Perseus, "I would willingly risk my life to do so."
If the daughters and their husbands decline to repay you, you can carve this on the headstone 'Here lies M. Goriot, father of the Comtesse de Restaud and the Baronne de Nucingen, interred at the expense of two students." Eugene took part of his friend's advice, but only after he had gone in person first to M. and Mme. de Nucingen, and then to M. and Mme. de Restaud a fruitless errand.
It would have been foolish when our funds are so low, and I shall soon be in a position to repay him." "And you took the money?" "No, I am to have it to-morrow. I am going to meet him at his club." "I wish, Merton, that you could do without this fifty pounds," she said after a while. "I see no prospect of repaying it, there is so little coming in.
Surely this moment may repay a life of misery! He could only receive her caresses in silence; but the sudden tears which started in his eyes spoke a language too expressive to be misunderstood. When the first emotion of the scene was passed, Julia enquired by what means Ferdinand had come to this spot.
He could recite the colt's pedigree with great gusto and when he had been talking to Sam of some book he would repay the boy's attention by saying, "You, my boy, are as far superior to the run of boys about town as the colt, Bellamy Boy, is superior to the farm horses that are hitched along Main Street on Saturday afternoons."
Her ears were where her heart was, out on the plain beyond the cottonwood, where she could see the tall, straight, lithe figure of young Stephens, and his dog at his heels. "Oui, Monsieur," returned Paul, "Monsieur Stephens is a very great favourite with our family. We are under an obligation to him that it will be difficult ever to repay."
Austin, divining the rebellion in his friend's heart, said, quickly: "You're the only one who could enlighten her, Doc, but you won't do it. You owe me too much." "I I suppose I do," acknowledged Suydam, slowly. "I owe you more than I can ever repay " "Wait " The sick man raised his hand, while a sudden light blazed up in his face. "She's coming!"
Puddleham had not been quite happy in his mind amidst the ease and amiable relations which Mr. Fenwick enforced upon him, and had long since begun to feel that a few cabbages and peaches did not repay him for the loss of those pleasant and bitter things, which it would have been his to say in his daily walks and from the pulpit of his Salem, had he not been thus hampered, confined, and dominated.
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