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I know that this life is but short at the best on't, That time it flies fast, and that work must be done; That when danger comes 'tis as well for to jest on't, 'Twill be but the lighter felt when it do come If you think, then, from this, that I an't got a notion Of a heaven above, with its mercy in store, And the devil below, for us lads of the ocean, Just the same as it be for the landsmen on shore Lord love you!!
He dissented strongly from Harriet's proposal to see the Congress and General Washington. "'Twill be useless," he said. "The Congress seek reprisal. If I am not the victim 'twill be another. There is no reason why I should seek to evade that which must be the fate of some English officer." "Clifford, don't you care?" she wailed. "Yes; I do, Harriet," he answered gravely. "I care very much.
He saw my meaning; that I would stand aside and let him be her succor if she needed help. But he would not have it so. "No," he said, doggedly. "We'll go together, and she shall choose between us for a champion, if she is in the humor to honor either of us. That is what 'twill come to in the end; and I warn you fairly, John Ireton, I shall neither give nor take advantage in this strife.
Theresa also said confidently with a sinking heart: "But sure, anyhow, mother jewel, what matter about it? 'Twill be all gone to houles and flitters and thraneens, and so it will, plase goodness, afore there's any talk of anybody else wearin' it except your own ould self."
He who associates with a bad servant cannot fail to lament it sooner or later, whatever come of it. "Now will I speak to you again of the arrow which is given in trust to me and tell you how it is made and cut; but I fear much that I may fail in the matter; for the carved work of it is so magnificent that twill be no marvel if I fail.
And now there'd be money in it, for they'd pay well, I know; and they'd love to come, I'm sure. There'd be three of them there's a secretary with them." "But, Pollyanna, I can't! Turn this house into a boarding house? the Harrington homestead a common boarding house? Oh, Pollyanna, I can't, I can't!" "But it wouldn't be a common boarding house, dear. 'Twill be an uncommon one.
However, I shan't go to the trial, and I'd advise the rest of ye that bain't wanted to bide away. 'Twill disturb his mind more than anything to see us there staring at him as if he were a show."
Though smaller than other boys of his age, he possessed "the clear advantage of that energy of nerve and that sort of twill in the muscular texture which give tight little fellows more size than they measure and more weight than they weigh." At school he had under his charge a brother, two years younger than himself, who was once called up by the master to be whipped.
Since it is to be our last night in this poor world, let us spend it as pleasantly as may be." "Pleasantly?" "Twill clearly be difficult," answered Crispin, with a laugh. "Were we in Christian hands they'd not deny us a black jack over which to relish our last jest, and to warm us against the night air, which must be chill in this garret.
"Well, friend Tom, and how do you feel? Learned to take snuff yet? No! Ah, well, 'twill come by degrees. "Put some more scent upon his person, Curley; he must smell like a perfumer's shop; and so give him his gold-tasselled cane, and the gloves with the golden fringe. A muff? No! Well, perchance those great fists would look something strange in one, and the day is fine and mild.
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