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Zeb took care of the farm teams; but the winter's work of distributing forage and grain, getting up wood and ice, hauling manure, and so forth, had to be done in a desultory and irregular manner. The spring work would find us wofully behindhand if I did not look sharp.
Benson is always behindhand in getting dressed for a party, and he said he guessed the party could wait, and " Before the sentence was finished Mrs. Benson found herself passed on and in charge of a certain general, who was charged by the hostess to get her a cup of tea.
Obtuse as most men are, with things going on right under their eyes, it is not easy to baffle them when once their curiosity is roused. And yet curiosity is always imputed exclusively to women! Though Eve was the first to taste the apple, Adam had no intention of being behindhand.
My father, who was in the navy, only came now and then to see me; and I was left almost entirely to the charge of this woman, who was irregularly paid, and who vented her rage upon me when my father was behindhand in remitting her money. So you see that at a very early age I found out what it was to be poor.
I did not want to be behindhand with him, so I answered, 'Well, sir, it caught fire in your house. He started with fright and looked all round the room. I was vastly amused. Then we came to explanations.
He put his whole soul into everything that interested him, and, so far as play was concerned, at fifteen years of age he could swim, run, handle a lacrosse, hit a base-ball, skim over the ice on skates, or over snow on snow-shoes, with a dexterity that gave himself a vast amount of pleasure and his parents a good deal of pride in him. Nor was he behindhand as regarded the training of his mind. Mr.
Lady Staines was regarding him with steady eyes. "You didn't get a telegram, too?" she asked. "No," said Winn. "Why should I?" "Not likely," said James, genially. "Always behindhand in the " "Damn these midges!" said Charles, hurriedly. James stopped with his mouth open. "Army, you were going to say, weren't you?" asked his mother, suavely.
He's sadly behindhand with his rent, as I was saying, but if he's really ill, I must see after Sheepshanks, who is a hardish man of business. What's his complaint? You'll come to our school-scrimmage on Thursday, little girl what's-your-name? Mind you send her, or bring her, Gibson; and just give a word to your groom, for I'm sure that pony wasn't singed last year, now, was he?
Furniture, doors, the very rafters and floors were sold for unpaid taxes. In the time of Louis XV., if a whole village fell too much behindhand, its four principal inhabitants might be seized and carried off to jail. The assessment and collection of the taille presented many anomalies.
At the door she turned and looked at him once more and disappeared. Christophe thought he should see her again in the evening. But he was watched by the Vogels, and followed everywhere by his mother: as usual, he was behindhand with his preparations for his journey and could not find time to leave the house for a moment. Next day he left very early.
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