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Snivel has taken the precaution to have the news of the lost ship find its way into the papers. "Mr. Hardscrabble!" says the man, bowing and taking a seat, leisurely, upon the decrepit sofa. Mr. McArthur returns his salutation, contemplates him doubtingly for a minute, then resumes his fussing and brushing.
The fact is, you do not believe in such characters as Surface the villain of artificial comedy even while you read or see them. If you did, they would shock and not divert you. When Ben, in Love for Love, returns from sea, the following exquisite dialogue occurs at his first meeting with his father Sir Sampson. Thou hast been many a weary league, Ben, since I saw thee. Ben. Ey, ey, been!
On the other side, let a drunkard see that his health decays, his estate wastes; discredit and diseases, and the want of all things, even of his beloved drink, attends him in the course he follows: yet the returns of uneasiness to miss his companions, the habitual thirst after his cups at the usual time, drives him to the tavern, though he has in his view the loss of health and plenty, and perhaps of the joys of another life: the least of which is no inconsiderable good, but such as he confesses is far greater than the tickling of his palate with a glass of wine, or the idle chat of a soaking club.
Any man or woman who enters a particular community for the first time, or returns to it from college, may become a dynamo of blessing to it.
S. returns, I shall hurry up to Streaky Bay with the supplies, and at once move on to the westward, my overseer being now engaged in preparing for our forcing a passage through the scrub, to the north-west of Streaky Bay, as soon as we arrive there with the remainder of the party. "I have the honour to be, Sir, "Your obedient servant, "EDW. JOHN EYRE."
Grandmamma said it was a present from the red cow to me because it was my birthday; and then because it was the first of May, she ordered the syllabub to be placed under the May-bush that grew before the parlour door, and when we were seated on the grass round it, she helped me the very first to a large glass full of the syllabub, and wished me many happy returns of that day, and then she said I was myself the sweetest little May-blossom in the orchard.
Yes! no doubt about it! We must each try to get hold of a stout branch or trunk of a tree, and cling on to it until daylight returns and we can see our way." The sergeant was right, although the time we took to reach the shore was longer than he expected it would be.
Thence one returns to the land of Khuzistan which is by the river Tigris, and one goes down the river which falls into the Indian Ocean unto an island called Kish . It is a six days' journey to reach this island. The inhabitants neither sow nor reap. They possess only one well, and there is no stream in the whole island, but they drink rain-water.
Yolland about the management of the estate, always grumbling about expenses and expecting unreasonable returns, and interfering with the improvements Harold had set in hand, till Mr. Yolland used to come and seek private interviews with me, to try to get me to instil the explanations in which he had failed. Once or twice I made peace, but things grew worse and worse.
"Without any luggage?" "Oh! Raoul would have been instructed to forward me mine, or to bring it with him on his return, if he returns." "There is nothing to keep me any longer in Paris," said Raoul. "Then we will go immediately." "And M. d'Artagnan?" "Oh! as for me, I was only accompanying Athos as far as the barrier, and I return with Porthos." "Very good," said the latter.
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