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Ludgate at last, though with a bad grace, paid her the money which she had intended to lay out in a very different manner. But no sooner had she paid this debt than she considered how she could prevail upon Mr.
"It will help to pass a couple of hours which might otherwise be dull." "Call it, then," said the officer. "The sooner it is over the better." Ned looked up to the mountain as one looks to a friend for assistance and cheer when things are going hard, and the mountain did not disappoint him. For there, high up, was the green light of a distant rocket.
You needn't think Miss Madden didn't see you, because she did." "It's a pity Miss Madden didn't come in a little sooner." "Sooner? I think she chose her moment very well." "If she had heard the whole of our conversation I think she'd have realized there was something to be said for me." "There isn't anything to be said for you. And until you've apologized for insulting me "
It was cold with that indoor cold which is so unpleasant. Joe Grace came in a big strapping young fellow. "I came from the farm and found father in bed and no wood in the stack. Some one has just fetched a load." He began to make a fire. "Go up to your father," said Rivers. "Make a fire in his room. You ought to have come sooner.
Off the end of the wharf, we rounded-to and let go our anchor; and no sooner was it on the bottom, than the decks were filled with people: custom-house officers; Topliff's agent, to inquire for news; others, inquiring for friends on board, or left upon the coast; dealers in grease, besieging the galley to make a bargain with the cook for his slush; "loafers" in general; and last and chief, boarding-house runners, to secure their men.
Let it be a work of necessity for food, for a specimen, for your own protection, but never for sport. I don't like the word, Nat; there is too much cruelty in what is called sport." "But wouldn't you kill lions and tigers, sir?" I said. "Most decidedly, my boy. That is the struggle for life. I'd sooner kill a thousand tigers, Nat, than one should kill me," he said laughing; "and for my part "
However, his troubles with the priests continued and took on a dangerous aspect. Father Dámaso alluded to him from the pulpit, and, if he did not do so directly by name, it was an oversight on his part, for anything might be expected from a man of his character. I foresaw that sooner or later the affair would have a bad ending."
Tell us how you came to see this vase. Take your time to speak. We are in no hurry: the truth will appear sooner or later." Solomon. "His majesty himself put the vase into my hands, and commanded me to pack it up, with some other china, which he was going to send as a present to a gentleman at Paris.
No sooner was his conquest assured than he was forced not only to confirm the surrender of Berwick, but to yield up the whole of south-eastern Scotland as the price of the English assistance.
"Have you seen it?" he next asked. No sooner had she replied than he turned to me. "I suppose, of course, you've seen it," he said. "Not yet," I told him; "but I have read it " "Oh, so have I!" exclaimed one of the other boys; "and I've seen it, too. There is one act in the play that isn't in the book 'The Land of Happiness' it is. My mother says she doesn't think Mr.
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