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I've been all over the States since then, and I've seen poor people, the Lord knows but I want to say I've never seen people anywhere that were any worse off than my husband was when he was a boy. And yet he got out of it all by himself. He didn't need any strikes to help him." "But of course," Sue put in smoothly, "your husband was an exceptional man." Mrs. Marsh threw her a bitter glance.

"It seems to me that when a fellow is chock-full of anything he oughtn't to feel much hunger." "I've often thought that, but you can't fool nature that way." "If it gets any worse we can shoot the ponies and devour them." "Why both of them?" "Because it would take a whole one to satisfy me.

But are you sure, I am not, that I am such stuff as an English lady should be made of? If in ten years' time you found that others did not think so, that, worse again, you did not think so yourself, would you be true to me then?" "I will always be true to you." She gently extricated herself, as though she had done so that she might better turn round and look into his face.

I shall say nothing of the foulness of this place, because 'twas too foul to be written on paper; and if 'twas foul at starting, 'twas ten times worse when we reached open sea, for of all the prisoners only Elzevir and I were sailors, and the rest took the motion unkindly.

She had gone home an hour before, her head being worse, they said. Mr. Falkirk said nothing, but his thick brows grew together again. 'Mrs. Merrick said it was not the least matter; her coachman unfortunately was sick, but fifty people would be only too happy. I said everybody but me wished to stay late, O, no, not at all! here was Mr. May, going in five minutes, with his sister.

The marriage of that delightful, profane old sea-dog Jacob Worse, with the pious Sara Torvested, and the attempts of his mother-in-law to convert him, are described, not with the merely superficial drollery to which the subject invites, but with a sweet and delicate humor, which trembles on the verge of pathos.

"Will you stand me for about half an hour while I fix up this room for you?" "No!" "What will you do if I attempt it?" "I'll set the dog on you." "Nothing worse?" asked Haldane, with a laughing glance at the lazy cur. "You might take something."

Not that I myself embody such a failure, nor even that I gave birth to the dreaded fate's latest momentum, but as is seen time and again throughout history, one name is brought to represent the tide of change, for better or worse, the doer of deeds which were done not by him, but by a mass of independent doers, yet it is written in the annals of history as the deeds of but one man.

In my last epistle to you I stated that I had been asked 100 roubles per ream for such paper as we wanted. I likewise informed you that I believed that it was possible to procure it for 35 roubles, notwithstanding our Society had formerly paid 40 roubles for worse paper than the samples I was in possession of.

The boys at the back of the hall, who hate Vittie worse than the devil, nearly raised the roof off with the way they shouted. I could see that McMeekin didn't half like it. He's rather given himself away by supporting Vittie. Well, as long as the cheering went on Miss Beresford stood and smiled at them.