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"Do you like it?" "Gee! It's swell!" "Good! I'll make you a present of it." Buddy stared at the speaker in speechless surprise. "What what for?" he finally stammered. "Because you admire it." "Why it's solid gold, ain't it?" "To be sure." "How much d'it cost?" "My dear fellow," Gray protested, "you shouldn't ask questions like that. You embarrass me."
It is but fair to Guicciardini to complete his sentence in a note: 'These good qualities were far surpassed by his vices; private habits of the utmost obscenity, no shame nor sense of truth, no fidelity to his engagements, no religious sentiment; insatiable avarice, unbridled ambition, cruelty beyond the cruelty of barbarous races, burning desire to elevate his sons by any means: of these there were many, and among them in order that he might not lack vicious instruments for effecting his vicious schemes one not less detestable in any way than his father. St. d'It. vol. i. p. 9.
"It give me a turn to see him go by white as wax an' bony as a dead fish! Mrs. Cronin, tell me: d'it make ye kind o' sick to look at um?" "Sick? No more than the face of a blessed angel already in heaven!" "Well," said the other, "I'd a b'y o' me own come home t' die once " She fell silent at a rustling of skirts in the corridor above them. It was Mrs. Sheridan hurrying to greet her son.
See the authorities in Burckhardt, pp. 93, 94. Guicc. St. d'It. vol. iii. p. 15. Former Popes had preached crusades against the Turk, languidly or energetically according as the coasts of Italy were threatened. Alexander frequently invited Bajazet to enter Europe and relieve him of the princes who opposed his intrigues in the favor of his children.
Davvit said she'd d'it hersel'. An' a' the time she's correspondin' wi' a yunger ane, an Axworthy tae, 'at she tells Marg'et she likes a hape better. Yer sister's sair affronted to think o' the w'y the fem'ly name's bein' cairted thro' the mire." Belle came out on the veranda, her broad hat in her hand, ready to walk down to the train with me.