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An angry and bitter pang shot across that portion of Mauleverer's frame which the earl thought fit, for want of another name, to call his heart. "How cursedly pleased she looks!" muttered he. "By Heaven! that stolen glance under the left eyelid, dropped as suddenly as it is raised; and he ha! how firmly he holds that little hand!
You will not carry off some of the common stock, though I think you justly might, considering how much you have put into it. What, then, shall we do? Work we cannot, beg we will not; and, between you and me, we are cursedly extravagant! What remains but marriage?" "It is true," said Clifford, with a half sigh. "You may well sigh, my good fellow.
"Well, I've had a rattling good ride this morning," he began, plunging into his favourite topic as usual without any pretence of interest in her or in her pursuits. "Nothing like riding for improving the circulation! I wish to goodness I could keep another horse. It would add to my income in the long run. But I'm so cursedly handicapped by those bills.
"There," said Jerry, stroking himself down when he had finished his cheese, as if he were a Falstaff; "a kitten might play with me now." "More than one dare do with me," rejoined Peter, "for I'm cursedly inclined to shoot the cat."
He was suddenly intimate, almost humble. "Of course, you don't realise how cursedly awkward it all is," he said with the evident desire of opening a confidence. "Tell me as little or as much as you like," I responded. "You know that I..." "Yes, rather," he agreed warmly, and added, "I'd sooner Hughes didn't know." "He guesses a lot, though," I put in. "I suppose they all do."
On peace and rest my mind was bent, And fool I was I married; But never honest man's intent As cursedly miscarried. In Virginia's colonial days, no man was better known than John Smith Stevens. His father was one of the original founders of Jamestown and, it was said, had felled the first tree to build the city.
At last I looked up, and said I, 'Your Grace must forgive my offering a suggestion; for 'tis a cursedly awkward fix your Grace is in, and one to excuse boldness in a friend, however humble. 'Don't put it so, I beg, said he. 'My dear Noy, if you can only tell me how to get quits with you, I'll be your debtor eternally."
"I can't say I do, Cobb," replied the Colonel, slowly, stirring his toddy. "I never set foot on your soil but once, and so am unfamiliar with your ways." He never liked Cobb. "He's so cursedly practical, and so proud of it, too," he would often say; "and if you will pardon me, sir a trifle underbred." "When was that?" asked Cobb, looking over the top of his paper.
"But not of Meg's," he repeated, lifting the glass and nodding over it at the pair. His friend swayed into a chair and sat facing him, his chin but just above the table and his green eyes glaring like an owl's. "Jemmy Runacles, I adopt that boy!" "You're cursedly obstinate, Jack." "Having adopted him, I shall at once quit my profession and devote the residue of my life to his education.
Roupall's ears were nearly as quick as those of Robin, and an exclamation of recognition escaped his lips as he turned round to where the Ranger stood. "Ah! our little Ranger," said the man, extending his rough hand, "it charms me to see you! I feared you were nabbed somehow, for I knew you'd be cursedly down in the feathers from what the whole island is talking of. Hast seen the Skipper?"
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