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Likewise Nestor, using arguments unchanged indeed but tending to the same end, and also using greater freedom to those who have been spoilt by inaction, brings over the crowd. He places the blame of their negligence on a few unworthy people and advises the rest. He threatens the disobedient and immediately takes counsel with the king as to how the forces are to be drawn up.
"Go! spoilt little wretch!" cried Bessie, threatening him with the nutmeg grater. "Mama, Franky is becoming as rude as a horrid little street boy." "Never mind, my dear. Tell me what Mr. Boult said in the sermon." "He said my happiness as well as my duty was to work. He said my 'peevishness, and my 'nervy fits' wasn't it rude of him! came from idleness. He did, Mr.
It had chanced that Valerie had met Isaura at some house in the past winter, and conceived an enthusiastic affection for her: since then, Valerie came very often to see her, and made a point of dragging with her to Isaura's Thursday reunions her obedient father. Soirees, musical or literary, were not much in his line; but he had no pleasure like that of pleasing his spoilt child.
Some said that the ghost of the wicked old man had done it to punish my brother-in-law for not believing in him at first; while others held that the apparition was probably that of some deceased local plumber and glazier, who would naturally take an interest in seeing a house knocked about and spoilt. But nobody knew anything for certain.
The spoilt child of the world, but a friendly soul, and a romantic and a patient lover and a type fashioned by conditions that Tolstoy, of course, knew by heart why should Tolstoy manage to make so little of him? It is unfortunate, for when Anna is stirred by the sight of him and his all-conquering speciosity, any reader is sure to protest.
"She said what she believed to be true. I must request you, Christine, not to cast doubts on her word. We Germans do not lie." And the Graf muttered, "Peinlich, peinlich" and pushed hack his chair and left the room. "You have spoilt my husband's lunch," said the Grafin sternly. "I am very sorry," I said; and tried to go on with my own, but couldn't see it because I was blinded by tears.
"Certainly, my dear, if you like," returned Mrs. Adair, with an ungracious shrug of the shoulders. "But there is a reason, I suppose. I don't understand why you exact the promise." "Two lives must not be spoilt because of me." There was some ground for Mrs. Adair's suspicion that Ethne expected the blind man to whom she was betrothed, with apprehension. It is true that she was a little afraid.
That Julia escaped better than Maria was owing, in some measure, to a favourable difference of disposition and circumstance, but in a greater to her having been less the darling of that very aunt, less flattered and less spoilt. Her beauty and acquirements had held but a second place. She had been always used to think herself a little inferior to Maria.
"How good and kind in you to say so too good, too kind! for I am a feeble creature, turned by every breeze that blows, a vain little fool who does not know one hour what she may do the next, a spoilt child that likes best to do the thing it ought to leave undone, a weak girl who finds a pleasure in doing battle with men. For all in all "
"There is no fool like an old, fool, I know, but I am not quite so foolish as that." "I see nothing at all foolish in it," pouted Lucy. "You are my host, and it's my coming-of-age party." Helmsley laughed. "So it is! And the festival must not be spoilt by any incongruities. It will be quite sufficient honour for me to take you in to supper."
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