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Lady Mary looked at him as though she had awakened, frightened, to the consciousness of her own temerity. "I don't quite understand myself, I think," she said, in a subdued voice. "I won't torment you any more, Timothy; I will be as calm and collected as you wish. Only let me go." "Will you not listen to my reason for wishing you to remain at home?" he said sternly. "It is an important one."
Not wishing, however, to delay the mailing of his letter, he soon found himself wending his way to the Post-office, where, with his own hand, he consigned the missive to the care of her Majesty the Queen, by putting it in the apperture that opened into the letter-box from the street the office being already closed.
The same?" "Yes," I replied, "precisely the same." "Does she give a reason?" he asked. "Oh, yes," I explained; "because you can't help liking them." There was silence for the next few minutes, while we smoked and thought. I fancy we were all wishing we had never started this enquiry.
The preamble, as well as this note, was no proper part of the terms, and Sherman entirely objected to any preamble of the kind, wishing to include only the things necessary to an agreement. He therefore took his pen, and then and there wrote off rapidly his own expression of the points he had intended to agree to, but explicitly as a "memorandum or basis" for submission to their principals.
"You are the civilest-spoken gentleman I have entertained this many a day. Here's your health, and wishing you luck in your business, and many happy days well spent. My service to you, sir." "The same to you, ma'am." "Well, sir, in regard to a row between the gentlefolks not that I call that there Bartley one judge for yourself.
When, however, that slayer of hostile heroes the son of Kunti commenced the conflict with the end of the bow, the mountaineer snatched from his hands that celestial bow. And beholding his bow snatched from him, Arjuna took up his sword, and wishing to end the conflict, rushed at his foe.
And now, if you please, we will tell the real story which has furnished this scandal to a newspaper, this tattle to Club gossips and loungers. The Field-Marshal, wishing to make a further provision for a friend, informed his lawyer what he desired to do.
A long time ago I formed a small collection of children's books of the early years of the nineteenth century; and looking through them, wishing that some of them had fallen into my hands when I was a child I recalled the books I had read at that time especially two or three.
At these words Manoel could stand it no longer. With pale face and eye of fire he strode up to Torres. Benito, wishing to exhaust every means of conciliation, thrust himself between them. "Calm yourself, Manoel!" he said. "I am calm even I." And then continuing: "Quite so, Torres; I know the reason of your coming on board the raft.
She was down on her knees at one moment, blowing the fire, and telling us that she felt like Cinderella; she was up on a table the next, attacking the cobwebs with a long broom, and wishing she had been born a housemaid. As for my unfortunate friend, the upholsterer, he was leveled to the ranks at the first effort he made to assume the command of the domestic forces in the furniture department.
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