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This is a new accession indeed to the hard labour of forming the youthful mind at Limmeridge, and I heartily wish you well through it, Mr. Dempster. In the meantime, let me explain why you see me here, and what it is I want." She then put the same question to the schoolmaster which we had asked already of almost every one else in the village. It was met by the same discouraging answer Mr.
As the latter was infected with the sceptical views of Hume, there would seem to have been a scene, for in the Life Johnson is made to say, 'I have not met with any man for a long time who has given me such general displeasure, but Boswell, ever with an eye for copy, writes to Temple, 'it was a very fertile evening, and my journal is stored with its fruits. Then to Lord Hailes he writes: 'Entre nous of Dempster, Johnson had seen a pupil of Hume and Rousseau totally unsettled as to principles.
If there are people in this village, Mr. Dempster, who have forgotten the respect and gratitude due from every soul in it to my mother's memory, I will find them out, and if I have any influence with Mr. Fairlie, they shall suffer for it." "I hope indeed, I am sure, Miss Halcombe that you are mistaken," said the schoolmaster. "The matter begins and ends with the boy's own perversity and folly.
And she had heard it, for by and by the casement of her window was opened, and Janet perceived that she was bending out to try and discern who it was at the door. 'It is I, Mrs. Pettifer; it is Janet Dempster. Take me in, for pity's sake. 'Merciful God! what has happened? 'Robert has turned me out. I have been in the cold a long while. Mrs.
Feed it, woman, feed it," said Cæsar. "His father should have been Dempster before him," said John, the clerk. "Would have been too, only he went crooked when he married on yonder woman. She's through though, and what more natural " The rope stopped again, and Kate's voice, hard and thick, came from the farther end of it. "His mother being dead, eh?"
The first part of the journey to Esperance Bay was through comparatively settled and well-known country, so that but little interest attaches to it. At Esperance Bay, where the Messrs. Dempster had a station, they arrived a few days before the relief schooner, and on the 9th May started for Israelite Bay.
She therefore gave Ned Dempster a few directions how to remedy the leak. Of course Ned, being a born fisher-lad, was quite capable of doing the piece of work in his spare moments. This Theo knew. But, unfortunately, her orders, and everything else as well, went clean out of Ned's head, owing to the excitement he had imbibed from Alick about the expedition to Brattlesby Woods after the finches.
I found them particularly convenient for me, as they were so near Dr. Johnson's. On Wednesday, July 20, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Dempster, and my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. 'Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.
The Dempster is putting a sight on us regular trusts you are the better for leaving home. It was awful awful! Dearest Kirry, I'm missing you mortal worse than Kimberley. So come home soon, my true lil wife, to your foolish ould husband, for his heart is losing him." He leapt up, and began to tramp the floor. "But why do I tell you this? I should bear my own burdens."
"An' ye can't tell nuthin'," his mother retorted. "That's why ye don't like short-cuts." "I believe you sent for me, Mrs. Dempster," Douglas remarked. "I was sorry I could not come sooner." "Oh, there was no special hurry. A day or two doesn't make much difference. But I thought if ye brought ye'r fiddle an' played a little it might cheer the poor lassie up a bit." "How is she?"
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