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And I should think the girls, Maggie and Tirzah Ann, would want to stay to home and clean house such a day as this is. And I should think a Elder would want to stay to home so's to be on hand in case of anybody happenin' to be exercised in their minds, and wantin to talk to him on religious subjects.
Come on, I want you to see her an' our baby," replied the boy, eagerly. Somewhat uncertain as to what kind of a girl this might be, yet anxious to know as much as possible about Theo's associates and surroundings, Mr. Scott followed the boy down the stairs. "Nan, here's my teacher, Mr.
'Reproaches are ungenerous, of course, retorted Holroyd; 'I am coming to the "finishing stroke," as you call it, in my own time; but first, though you may consider it bad taste on my part, I want to know a little more about all this. If it's painful to you, I'm sorry but you scarcely have the right to be sensitive. 'Oh, I have no rights! said Mark, bitterly.
Can you walk with me to the corner of the street, or until we meet a taxicab? it sounds cowardly, but, as a matter of fact, I am not afraid. I simply want to make sure of delivering this document to the person to whom it belongs." The constable stood still, a little perplexed. "My beat, sir," he said, "only goes about twenty-five yards further on.
We should, indeed, be sorry if our demeanour in those vast crowds where English people flock together, rather, as it would seem, to assert a right than to gratify an inclination, were to be taken as an index of our national character the want of all ease and simplicity, those essential ingredients of agreeable society, which distinguish these dreary meetings, have been long unfortunately notorious.
"Hillo; who are you?" asked a voice in English. "I want a cast across the Channel," I answered. "Well, come aboard, and we'll see what we can do for you," said the same speaker. I accordingly ran along the quay, and jumped on the cutter's deck just as her last warp was cast off.
I didn’t want her to find me in the hall, but I was reluctant to go upstairs to my rooms from an unreasonable feeling that there I would be too much out of the way; not sufficiently on the spot. There was the alternative of a live-long night of watching outside, before the dark front of the house. It was a most distasteful prospect.
Some other saint she would want, no doubt, and she prayed a little silent prayer to St Nicholas, that he would allow her to marry the Jew without taking offence at her. Her circumstances had been very hard, as the saint must know, and she had meant to do her best. Might it not be possible, if the saint would help her, that she might convert her husband?
Nothing of that whining adulation; those canting, hypocritical complaints of want of talents; assurance of his endeavours to please them; hopes of their favour, &c.
Oh! just as usual. She's a sensible girl and knows her mind." Dick pondered this an instant. "I'm going to bed," said Archie. "Got to have a straight eye to-morrow." "Oh! sit down a second.... I want to talk." Archie, as a compromise, propped himself against the back of a chair. "She doesn't regret it, then?" pursued Dick. "Not she," said Archie. "It would never have done."
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