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Austen, with that smile, continued. "Oh!" she interrupted herself to remark. "You have not congratulated Mr. Cantillon. Has no little bird told you? It's this dear child Kate. Just now don't you think? engagements, like lilacs, are in the air." She turned to Verelst. "Grey deceiver!" Verelst crooked his arm. "However much I tried to deceive, I got grey before I could." "What are you laughing at?"
"D'ye know where he is, Captain McBean?" "I wish I did." "So do I. It was Mr. Waverton who told the tale. Now you know why I am eager to hear what you can say of my father or my father of you." "Are you a good son, Mr. Boyce?" "I pay my debts." "There's a crooked answer. Are you in the Colonel's secrets?" "I have no reason to think so." "I guess he did not trust you. I guess he was right.
"Sorrow be in the crooked carcass of thee!" said the Borderer between his teeth; and then again attempting a soothing tone, "Good Father Elshie, a most miserable creature desires some counsel of your wisdom."
In the soft beginning of a Spring morning, long before New York had breakfasted, while yet the air of expectation hung about the wharves of the metropolis, our young adventurers made their way to the Jersey City railway station of the Erie road, to begin the long, swinging, crooked journey, over what a writer of a former day called a causeway of cracked rails and cows, to the West.
For the Foreign Secretary made no secret of his somewhat nervous condition, whatever might be the cause of it. "Do you know that mood when one could scream because a mat is crooked?" he said to March, as they walked up and down in the back garden below the line of dingy statues. "Women get into it when they've worked too hard; and I've been working pretty hard lately, of course.
"Do good whenever you can, and forget it." It is truly a great proverb "Rather a crooked sight than a crooked judgment"; but it is so difficult to adopt it that the judgment of few men hits the nail on the head.
This preparation of the cable and anchors was for the passage of the straits; for, being very crooked, and with a variety of currents, it is necessary to come frequently to anchor. This was not, by any means, a pleasant prospect, for, of all the work that a sailor is called upon to do in cold weather, there is none so bad as working the ground-tackle.
But nature, which the crooked, the bandy-legged, the blind, and the ugly abuse so unmercifully here below, and have no more esteem for her than the well-favoured, since, like workers of tapestry, they know not what they do, gives the same appetite to all and to all the same mouth for pudding.
There were fulmars in thousands, eager to pounce down upon the morsels which they knew would be their share. They were of a dirty grey colour, with white breasts and strong crooked bills, formed to tear flesh easily, and able to give a very severe bite.
Kenwardine looked at him with an ironical smile. "Isn't this a change of attitude? I understood you claimed that you were under a disadvantage through being drunk and suspected that the game was not quite straight." "I was drunk and still suspect Black of crooked play." "It's rather a grave statement." "I quite see that," said Jake.
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