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What then will become of my little Betsy, a helpless infant orphan? and the poor little wretch will, I believe, break her heart at the miseries with which she sees her sister and myself distracted, while she is ignorant of the cause. O 'tis the most sensible, and best-natured little thing! The barbarous, cruel hath destroyed us all. O my poor children! Is this the reward of all my cares?
'Pity, for he was the best-natured, and most cheery and hopeful young fellow that ever was. I named another boy. 'Oh, he is all right. Lives here yet; has a wife and children, and is prospering. Same verdict concerning other boys. I named three school-girls. 'The first two live here, are married and have children; the other is long ago dead never married.
Each pretended that the meeting was accidental, though, after the first glance, the best-natured recording angel ever commissioned from Paradise would have refused to believe either of them. "What a piece of luck!" cried the young man. "Are you going to the Louvre?" "Yes. And you?" demanded Joan, flushing prettily. "I am killing time till the afternoon, when I play Number One for the Wanderers.
Occasionally they conversed; but it was a rather one-sided dialogue, for whereas the tailor had a sprightly intelligence and so far as his breath allowed a ready flow of words, the timber-merchant found himself at a disadvantage when mental activity was called for. The best-natured man in the world, Mr. At times Mr.
He would often, for example, observe, as it were occasionally, that the Duke of G was one of the best-natured men in the world, and illustrate this assertion by some instance of his affability, in which he himself was concerned. Then, by an abrupt transition, he would repeat some repartee of Lady T , and mention a certain bon mot of the Earl of C , which was uttered in his hearing.
They are ‘a delightful couple,’ an ‘affectionate couple,’ ‘a most agreeable couple, ‘a good-hearted couple,’ and ‘the best-natured couple in existence.’ The truth is, that the plausible couple are people of the world; and either the way of pleasing the world has grown much easier than it was in the days of the old man and his ass, or the old man was but a bad hand at it, and knew very little of the trade.
Among those a little older than himself, the best-natured commended him outspokenly and in honest generosity of heart. Others, with more mundane outlook, judged his achievement reflected lustre on the kennel, and therefore this with a sniff and the chuck of the chin also on themselves.
In fact, poor Jones was one of the best-natured fellows alive, and had all that weakness which is called compassion, and which distinguishes this imperfect character from that noble firmness of mind, which rolls a man, as it were, within himself, and like a polished bowl, enables him to run through the world without being once stopped by the calamities which happen to others.
Peter greatly disliked to speak to him of Miriam, but he liked Nash himself to make free with her, and even liked him to say such things as might be a little viciously and unguardedly contradicted. He was not, however, moved to gainsay something dropped by his companion, disconnectedly, at the end of a few minutes; a word to the effect that she was after all the best-natured soul alive.
Clara always had too much the assumption that she was taking him only as the best-looking, best-natured, safest bargain presented. "He will be here," she reassured, "but I wish he would hurry. His dinner will be spoiled; and, poor dear, he likes his dinner so much!" The faint silver sound of the electric bell, a precipitate double peal, seemed to uphold this statement.
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