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I don't care for races, I never wished to go, I would much sooner have stayed; and I am sure Sophy will not get well without me, will you, dear?" "Oh, yes, yes; if I'm to keep you from the nice races, I should be worse if I thought that." "But I don't like the nice races, Sophy, as your sister Carry does; she must go, they can't do without her; but nobody knows me, so I shall not be missed."
Ears grow accustomed to the sound of water sooner than to almost anything. It was not long before King's ears could catch the patter of his men's feet following, and the shod clink of the mule. He could hear when Ismail whispered: "Be brave, little hakim! She loves fearless men." As the track descended caves became more numerous.
I found the dinner a specific antidote for a bruised character, for no sooner had my literary friends eaten it than they were ready to outdo one another in saying good things of me. One cunning fellow told his readers that the election of General Harrison was entirely owing to the wisdom I had distilled into the minds of the people of Cape Cod.
XXXI. In love, putting aside all consideration of the soul, the heart of a woman is like a lyre which does not reveal its secret, excepting to him who is a skillful player. XXXII. Independently of any gesture of repulsion, there exists in the soul of all women a sentiment which tends, sooner or later, to proscribe all pleasure devoid of passionate feeling.
The simple men and women who were in the church, hearing that they were to see the Angel Gabriel's feather after none, returned home, as soon as mass was over, and neighbor telling it to neighbor and gossip to gossip, no sooner had they all dined than so many men and women flocked to the burgh that it would scarce hold them, all looking eagerly to see the aforesaid feather.
"I'm thinking of travelling by this train." The audacity of this statement shook the self-possession of the guard. "Can't wait," he said. "Time's up. You ought to have been here sooner." To say this he was obliged to take the whistle from his lips; and the engine-driver, who had a strict sense of duty, was unable to start.
Now he said to himself that she would sooner desert a friend to please him than sacrifice a fraction of her income; and the discovery cast a stain of sordidness on their whole relation.
"Not so agreeable an occasion as when we last acted together in the field, Major Macdonnel; I'd sooner be clearing the course for my friend's horse, than measuring the ground for his fire." "True, indeed, Major Longsword; true, indeed. Don't you think you're putting your friend a leetle too much under the shade?
But the head was no sooner on the pillow than it was bobbed up again, and there came the whisper, "Mamma, please kiss Florence more than one time, and call her something nice." And when this was done, two very tired, but very happy, little girls kissed each other, and in a few moments were fast asleep. Housekeepers
As she did so, he gently detained her while he said to Becky, "My good friend, I have brought you the poor lad to whom you have been a mother, to tell you that good deeds find their reward sooner or later.
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