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He will pay you the two hundred dollars, and thank you for letting him off so easy. The result proved the correctness of these opinions. On that occasion Colonel Burr remarked, that the knowledge and use of men consisted in placing each in his appropriate position. His imperturbable coolness and presence of mind were displayed in his civil as well as in his military life.
If having the down knocked off one and seeing things truer and better for it is being shop-worn, then thank God for the wearing. "It has been a roundabout way for us, little girl, but at last our paths have met, and from now on, God willing, they shall go together. Come, I want to show you something."
I thank you, my dear, for that; but still, though it is some satisfaction to me to be assured of so much, yet I find there is something in it; and your way of speaking is ambiguous and doubtful. I entreat you, be plain and free with me. What is at the bottom of it? why won't you tell me? what have I done, that I am not to be trusted with a thing that so nearly concerns me? Husb.
"She had to know it some time," said Carter, stubbornly. "Is there anything I can do, Mrs. King?" "Nothing, Carter." "Then I'll go back to Honor." Something in his expression, in the way his dry lips said it, made the woman smile pityingly. "Carter, I I'm frightfully sorry for you, too." He drew himself up with something of the old concealing pride. "I'm quite all right, thank you."
"I beg your pardon: I'm an ungrateful brute. But you see I'd just made up my mind to do something worth the doing, and now it is made impossible in a way that renders it hard to bear. You are very patient with me, and I owe my life to your care: I never can thank you for it; but I will take myself out of your way as soon as I can, and leave you free to enjoy your happy holiday.
"If it was your fault that we got stranded on the island," she said, summoning up rather a wan smile, "it is, at all events, thanks to you that I shall be sleeping under a respectable roof, instead of scandalizing half the neighbourhood!" She paused, then went on uncertainly: "'Thank you' seems ludicrously inadequate for all you've done " "I've done nothing," he interrupted brusquely.
She pushed him out of the crowd, slapping a lad in the face who had jostled him and said, "Gawblimey, look at Percy!" and when she had got him away from them, she told him again to 'op it. "Thank you!..." he began. "Don't you wyste no time, mister, but 'op it quick," she interrupted, giving him a push forward. "But I don't know where I am," he replied.
"In bringing this you have served me, and I thank you. I would give you decent burial had I the leisure, but time presses. You must rest here until they find you." De Froilette hastily put some papers in his pocket, and reloading the two chambers of his revolver, slipped that too into his pocket. "Now if I can only see Ellerey as silent as this brute, I can laugh at them all.
It seemed all the time to be telling me in one breath something I knew and something I didn't and couldn't know. I wish I could express what I mean, but it puzzled me too much for that; although every now and then it sounded very beautiful indeed." "I will try and tell you what it said to me, sometime, papa," said Adela. "Thank you, my child; I should much like to understand it.
Thank God! the potion begins to work! huzza, my sons! heave! heave! aye, there comes the bile; the atrabiliary; the black vomiting which portends death to the enemy. Now Britons, look to your ships, for Carolina will soon be too hot to hold you."
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