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"May I have the next dance, Norah?" "I'm sorry, truly, Cecil, but I've promised it to Murty." "Oh!" said Cecil. "The next?" "That's Mick Shanahan's," said Norah, laughing. "But you may have the one after that if you like." "I must be thankful for small mercies, I suppose," said he, unthankfully. "Won't you dance with any one else?" "No, thanks, I don't care to." The tone was final.
Brett moved a couple of deck-chairs into a sheltered corner. "You must be tired," he said remorsefully. "I've kept you standing about an unconscionable time while I yarned on about my old tub. If you'll sit down here, I'll go and fetch you a wrap." Ann subsided into one of the chairs not unthankfully. "But I don't want a wrap," she protested. "You will, presently.
He assumed that Miss Fairfax was so far in his confidence as to be interested in the high themes that interested himself, and of these he discoursed until his companion inadvertently betrayed that she was capable of abstracting her mind and thinking of something else while seeming to give him all her polite attention. He was then silent not unthankfully.
then deeper and fuller tones, rolling out Barry Cornwall's sonorous verses of "King Death." It is good to look back on hours like these, though I doubt if the ill-cooked meats, whereof I hope soon to partake not unthankfully will be improved by the memory. In spite of this large hospitality, instances even of individual excess are comparatively rare.
And I remembered as every son must remember even you, my dear, will some day remember because it is in the very nature of sonship insubordinations, struggles, ingratitudes, great benefits taken unthankfully, slights and disregards. It was not remorse I felt, nor repentance, but a tremendous regret that so things had happened and that life should be so.
She set the saucer down and tried to wipe off the milk, while the cat crouched before the dish and began drinking eagerly and unthankfully, after the manner of cats. Some one stood silently watching her from the kitchen steps as she walked slowly up the path, gazing down on the ruin of the pretty starched ruffles.
"It is well it is well, boy," returned the old man, fumbling at his wallet; "honestly offered, and not unthankfully declined but it cannot be; no, it can never be." "Venerable venator," said Dr. Battius; "there are obligations, which every man owes to society and to human nature.
'Mrs Dombey, said he, 'it may not be inconsistent with my daughter's improvement to know how very much to be lamented, and how necessary to be corrected, a stubborn disposition is, especially when it is indulged in unthankfully indulged in, I will add after the gratification of ambition and interest.
Life here, and this present, have been depreciated unduly, untruly, and unthankfully. And harm has been done, not only to the men who accept that estimate, but to the world that scoffs at it.
Night, though she divides to many the longest part of life, and to almost all the most innocent and happy, is yet unthankfully neglected, except by those who pervert her gifts.
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