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Martin; whatever his faults may have been, it isn't the time for a wife to remember them." To this Mr. Martin responded dubiously, remarking that there were some carryings on upon the part of husbands which it was difficult for a wife not to remember.
"Papa, he is a blackguard and a thief! I know he is! And what I have done, I have done; but, if you like, I won't speak to him again." "No, I beg you to attend to the business. I am old. "No, Papa. Forgive me if I have caused you unpleasantness. I understand it all less than you do." "Devil take all these peasants, and money matters, and carryings forward from page to page," he thought.
Most of the trouble was in the dance-hall, where it was apt to be, and had its start, as it did generally, right around the Sage-Brush Hen: who kept on being dressed up in her white frock and wearing her white sun-bonnet, and looked as demure as a cotton-tail rabbit, and cut up so reckless I reckon she about made a record for carryings on!
"I s'pose they're used to see you sitting here?" said Lilac. Peter nodded. "They're rare good comp'ny too," he said, "when you can follow their carryings on, and know what they're up to." Lilac watched him thoughtfully as his large hand moved carefully amongst the flowers, cutting the best blossoms and adding them to the nosegay, which now began to take the shape of a large fan.
"Carryings on! I've acted like a man all through never anything else in your house, and it's a shame that I've got to listen to things that have never been said of me in all my life. My mother was a good, true woman, and she brought me up "
Lawrence River and the Great Lakes; a natural system of waterways connected each with the other and all with the Mississippi and Missouri, the Arctic Ocean, and Hudson's Bay; nay, more, with the North Pacific also; so that with a few "portages", or carryings of canoes from one watershed to another, a traveller of any enterprise, accompanied by a sturdy crew, can cross the broad continent of North America at its broadest from sea to sea without much walking.
The girls under the charge of his accomplished consort having been engaged in a frolic during her absence to prepare the pottage for dinner and girls at school will always have their frolics the gentle instructress returned in a rage, flushed with passion, the heat of the kitchen fire, and perhaps a drop of the CRATHUR swore several big Irish oaths that she would have no more such carryings on by the childers in her house, and by the powers, she would be afther clearing them out the spalpeens! that's what she would, honies!
"'Well, upon my word, said she, 'I wonder what you will do next, and laughed so they nearly fell overboard. "'Oh, what carryings on, ain't it, dear? But I wonder where Sarah Matilda is? I don't see her and Captain De la Cour.
"It's wasted labor talking to Master Wilfrey." The tone was one of vexation. "Did ye tell him what I heard about Justice Hide and his carryings on at Newcastle?" "Ey, and I told 'im he'd never bring it off with Hide on the bench." "And what did the chiel say to it?" "'Tut, he said, says he, 'Millet is wi' 'im on the circuit, and he'll see the law's safe on treason."
Was that endless cribbage nothing, and the weary Bible-lessons on a Sunday, and the constant fetchings and carryings, and the forced smiles, sham congratulations, and other hypocritical affections fearing for his dear aunt's dropsy, and inquiring so much about her bunions was all this dull servitude to meet with no reward? With none? worse than none!
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