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No; he was too wise for that; but he made some stones red-hot, and kept tumbling them into the water till the mussels were sufficiently cooked. Others he toasted before the fire, but he liked the boiled ones best. He thus made a tolerably substantial meal.
Maybright's servants kept his table fairly well, and his house tolerably clean, and the domestic machinery went on wheels, not exactly oiled, but with no serious clog to their progress. These things of course happened since Mrs. Maybright's death.
On the other side, sorrow for the lack of some form of goodness is itself a proof of the partial possession, in some rudimentary and incipient form, of that goodness. The utterly lazy man never mourns over his idleness; it is only the one that would fain work harder than he does, and already works tolerably hard, who does so.
You will see a tolerably correct report of it in the 'Times, but the best report of the judgment is in the 'Morning Post. The speeches of counsel are execrably given both in that and in the other papers.
"Who licked you?" he asked, forced to change his thoughts. "Who licked you before I got at you?" Perris smiled, and there was something about the smile that made Hervey flush to the roots of his grey hair. "Alcatraz had the first innings," said Perris. "He cleaned me up. And that, Hervey, was tolerably lucky for you." "Was it?" sneered the victor.
His visits were tolerably regular, though occasionally he appeared a little before or after his time, but generally, both in summer and winter, he took possession of his apartment about four o'clock, though he never spent the night there.
The old squire was greatly disconcerted by his brother's letter. Though impressed with the idea of self-consequence, and the love of tolerably pure blood, common to most country squires, he was by no means ambitious for his daughter.
The Warners are a tolerably good family, I presume. I'll go after her at once. Theo, bring my broché shawl, and wouldn't you wear my satin hood? 'Twill be warmer than my leghorn." "Grandma," said Theo, in utter astonishment, "What do you mean? You surely are not going to Leominster to-night, as sick as you are?"
I will only say, therefore, that, by the end of three months, my pupil, without knowing any other Latin author, was able to read any part of the first book of the AEneid to read it tolerably in measure, and to enjoy the poetry of it and this not without a knowledge of the declensions and conjugations. As to the syntax, I made the sentences themselves teach him that.
Warwick's health having received its tolerably comforting answer from the footman, they left their cards in turn, then descended the doorsteps, faced for the performance of the salute, and departed their contrary ways. The pleasing intelligence refreshed them one morning, that they would. be welcomed by Lady Dunstane. Thereupon Mr. Sullivan Smith wheeled about to Mr.
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