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Updated: June 12, 2025
And Miss Mattie went on joyfully fulfilling an inherited instinct to minister to the wants of some man. She said to herself there was some satisfaction in cooking for somebody else. But alack-a-day, Miss Mattie's ideas of the wants of somebody else had suffered a Fairfield change. Nothing was done on a large scale in Fairfield.
Good; the young woman stript off the reindeer skin, and let the widow woman do as she wished. In the meantime the King's son threw the reindeer skin into the fire unobserved. 'What smells of singeing here? asked the young woman, and looking round she saw her own husband. 'Woe is me! you have burnt my skin. Why did you do that? 'To give you back your human form again. 'Alack-a-day!
You cannot hide from them your gains and your gold as formerly." "My gains, wench? my gold?" said the usurer; "alack-a-day, few of these and hard got few and hard got." "This will not serve you, father, any longer," said she, "and had not served you thus long, but that Bully Colepepper had contrived a cheaper way of plundering your house, even by means of my miserable self.
'How my beautiful Aster used to glory in the spectacle of the setting or rising sun, he thought. They look like drops of blood," while her beautiful eyes grew larger and shining with poetic fervor. Alack-a-day! I wonder if I shall ever see my love again?
The prospect before me was brilliant. What could be more delectable than the chance of a war? My fancy pictured all sorts of opportunities, turned to the best account, my seniors disposed of, and myself, with a pair of epaulets, commanding the smartest brig in the service. Alack-a-day! what a climb down from such high flights my life has been.
There is one of mother's that I especially admire a big square emerald surrounded with diamonds. She promised to give it to me on my twenty-first birthday, but, unless my hands look very different by that time, I shall not want to call attention to them. Alack-a-day! I fear I shall never be able to wear a ring " "Gracious goodness!
To be sure some people this morning would have thought of getting a reward; but no such thought ever entered into my head. I would sooner starve than take any reward for betraying your ladyship." "I promise you, sir," says Sophia, "if it be ever in my power to reward you, you shall not lose by your generosity." "Alack-a-day, madam!" answered the landlord; "in your ladyship's power!
My peers shall hear my vindication." "Your peers?" exclaimed the cook "Alack-a-day, my lord, we are not in Scotland, where the nobles can bang it out bravely, were it even with the king himself, now and then.
Alack-a-day and all the year round! that men perceive not how the women differ from them in the very source of thought Albert never dreamed that his cousin, after doing so long without him, had now relapsed quite suddenly into her childish dependence upon him.
One day I heard the young man say to his wife, nodding toward me: "I ought to try to get that unfortunate thing off my hands before my vacation, but I never seem to get around to it." As, alack-a-day! he did not get around to me before that occasion, I went, packed in the bottom of a trunk, with the young man and his wife on their annual holiday.
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