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"You are letting it rain inside now when you frown and sigh instead of trying to be cheerful and happy in spite of the storm outside. One of our poets says: "'Whatever the weather may be, says he, 'Whatever the weather may be, It's the songs ye sing, and the smiles ye wear That's a-making the sunshine everywhere!"
But her pride whispered that it would be such a wonderful thing to be the queen of the king of the world; so she consented; and her maidens dressed her, and put on the long lace veil that had been so many years a-making. Then they were married at once, but the bridegroom never lifted his visor and no one saw his face.
Wherefore, before he could enter the holiest of all, he must have these holy garments made; neither did he trust others, as in the case of Aaron, to make these garments for him, but he wrought them all himself, according to all that Moses commanded. This garment Christ was a great while a-making. What time, you may ask, was required?
'I say, he whispered, stopping in one of his journeys to and fro, 'young ladies, there's soup to-morrow. She's a-making it now. An't she a-putting in the water? Oh! not at all neither! In the course of answering another knock, he thrust in his head again. 'I say! There's fowls to-morrow. Not skinny ones. Oh no! Presently he called through the key-hole: 'There's a fish to-morrow. Just come.
The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making, the signal-shouts of the workmen, the roar of the furnace, the thunder and plash of the engine, were a sublime music to him; the felling and lading of timber, and the huge trunk vibrating star-like in the distance along the highway, the crane at work on the wharf, the piled-up produce in warehouses, the precision and variety of muscular effort wherever exact work had to be turned out, all these sights of his youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets, had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a religion without the aid of theology.
I was a-making of his toast, Sir Pitt, for his gruel, Sir Pitt, which he took every morning regular at six, Sir Pitt, and I thought I heard a moan-like, Sir Pitt and and and " She dropped another curtsey. What was it that made Pitt's pale face flush quite red? Was it because he was Sir Pitt at last, with a seat in Parliament, and perhaps future honours in prospect?
"Your lovin' 'usband wot's in Ameriky a-making a snug little 'ome for you." Mavis was, for the moment, vanquished by the adroitness of Mrs Gowler's thrust. "I'm not well enough to quarrel. Please to show me my room." "That's better.
Before I left the neighbourhood of Turrifs, I heard of this old gentleman here a-making his way round the country, and I put in currency the report that he was Cameron, and I've no doubt that that suggestion made the country folks head him off towards Turrifs Station as far as they could influence his route; and that'll be how he came there at Christmas time. Look you here!
"Let's get away from here, Mr Mark, sir," whispered Billy. "I don't like this." "Get away?" "Yes, sir; they're a-making fun of us." "Who are?" "Oh, I don't know who they are, sir, but it's something. Let's get away, sir, fast as we can." "Which way?" "I d'know, sir, anyways as aren't near them." "Why, it was a couple of birds of some kind."
Ay! and he will take along with him more than twenty thousand, all sturdy Doubters, and men of war, picked men from the land of Doubting, to serve him in the expedition. Then was Cerberus glad, and said, 'And is there such brave preparations a-making to go against the miserable town of Mansoul?
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