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There is no longer wealth for the stretching out of the hand. 'Tis all over. I must go back to horses I, Madame, who should presently have associated with the nobility!" "Well, and if so," replied his mistress, "I can say to you, as I have to Marie, that there will still be money for your wages." "Wages! My faith, what trifles, my Lady!
When Hsi Jen saw dowager lady Chia, Madame Wang and the other members of the family take their leave, our narrative says, she entered the room. and, taking a seat next to Pao-yue, she asked him, while she did all she could to hide her tears: "How was it that he beat you to such extremes?" Pao-yue heaved a sigh. "It was simply," he replied, "about those trifles.
Daubeny, when examined, exhibited the same suspicious emotion that Berkeley had shown; and Hanson, Simms, and Green behaved in a precisely similar manner. "This," said Scott, "somewhat complicates the case. We must have further clues. You'd better pop off now, Pillingshot. I've got a Latin Prose to do. Bring me reports of your progress daily, and don't overlook the importance of trifles.
Now she might wear none but white dresses and the least scrap of colored ornament to dress her hair or smarten her robe was strictly forbidden. Such vain trifles, Paulina would say, were very well for the heathen, but the Lord looked not at the body but at the heart.
Fatigue, hunger, thirst, disease, and poverty are only trifles that are laughed at, so long as there is seen in the background of it all the lambent light of tender eyes speaking, as nothing else can, the language of the devoted heart.
There was now a further distribution of presents, when I perceived the reason why the first comers had so hastily concealed the trifles which had been given them.
What trifles serve the hope of lovers! At length she asked: "Then, O Count, thou wert his playmate in childhood?" A bitter pang struck him that pensiveness was for Mahommed yet he answered: "I was nearest him until he took up his father's sword." "Is he the monster they call him?" "To his enemies, yes and to all in the road to his desires, yes but to his friends there was never such a friend."
And yet, alas! so it is! The young gentleman of whom I spoke to you is to dine with us to-morrow in company with his uncle, the uncle invited himself, and we have absolutely nothing to give them! Besides this, my child needs some trifles to appear decently before the guests, and it is probable that the civility will be returned by an invitation from them.
Marie deftly arrayed Patty in the pretty trifles, and poked pillows behind her back until she was comfortable. "Goodness gracious sakes! Marie," said Patty, rubbing her eyes, "you waked me out of the soundest sleep I have ever known! WHY bother me with breakfast?" "Had to do it," returned Marie, calmly, drawing up a big chair for herself. "Now keep your eyes open and behave like a lady.
To my dear mother, who had partly outlived the exceeding value of trifles, the most important matter seemed to ensure Uncle Reuben's countenance and presence at the marriage. And if I succeeded in this, I might well forget all the maidens' trumpery.
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