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He's a peculiar character, is Henleigh Grandcourt, and it has been growing on him of late years. However, I'm of a constant disposition, and I've been a sort of guardian to him since he was twenty; an uncommonly fascinating fellow he was then, to be sure and could be now, if he liked. I'm attached to him; and it would be a good deal worse for him if he missed me at his elbow."
Always have been accommodating to women got myself into uncommonly tight places by being so more than once when I was younger " Here the speaker cheered up visibly, contemplating his favourite son with an air at once humorous and contrite. "You're well out of it, you know, Shotover, with no ties," he continued, "at least, I mean, with no wife and family.
If Jog had had reasonable time, say an hour or an hour and twenty minutes, to improvise it in, he would have said something uncommonly sharp; as it was he left him with the pertinent inquiry we have recorded 'What have you to do with Robins, the mole-catcher? We need hardly say that this little incident did not at all ingratiate Mr.
But then women, unless they were uncommonly clever, like his own mother, always did go to hear the parsons. Parsons, as a rule, were hypocrites. He had met one or two of them in town under circumstances that showed they had really no more "nonsense about them" than other people, but in the pulpit they were bound to cant. Look at Mr.
I told father I had a use for the fiddle, and he says if you'll give it to me, he'll call it square. There, what do you say to that?" Nicholas leaned back in his chair and looked at Philip through his small, fishy eyes, as if he had made an uncommonly liberal offer. As for Philip, he hardly knew whether to be angry or amused.
"Thank you," he said, laughing: "it is uncommonly good in you to say that, but I'm afraid you are rather uncharitable in your judgment of 'many men. "Mamma has not yet heard of my accident," he remarked presently, "and wonders over my long silence. I'll write to her now, if you will be so kind as to bring me my writing-desk."
She actually spent an hour longer at her toilet, and made her appearance with her hair uncommonly frizzled and powdered, and an additional quantity of rouge.
She has, in fact, impertinent little thing, already asked me when I am going. 'Do you allude to Hollyhock? 'Now, George, is it wise is it sensible to call those children after the flowers of the garden and the field? I assure you your manner of bringing up your family makes me sick yes, sick! 'Oh, don't trouble about us, said Lennox. 'We get on uncommonly well. They are my children, you know.
If his head and face be large, his nose prominent, and his figure square, he is an uncommonly fine young man, and worshipped accordingly. Should his whiskers meet beneath his chin, so much the better, though this is not absolutely insisted on; but he must wear an under-waistcoat, and smile constantly.
"I am no judge of the paces of elephants, but this one seemed uncommonly rough; and we held on vigorously to the railing until we reached a ridge and saw the dead city of Ambér before us, dominated by the white marble palace, standing on a steep cliff, and reflected in the water of the lake which laps its base."
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