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Ay! these weary bills, if they were but as the thing that is not come, cheer me up with an account of the Roman Carnival. And, accordingly, with my endeavour to do so, he seemed as much interested as if nothing had happened to discompose the usual tenor of his mind, but still our conversation ever and anon dropt back into the same subject, in the course of which he said to me, 'Do you know I experience a sort of determined pleasure in confronting the very worst aspect of this sudden reverse, in standing, as it were, in the breach that has overthrown my fortunes, and saying, Here I stand, at least an honest man.
"And she said I was not wise!" he half laughed, as the tears ran down his face and he resumed his invocation of thankfulness. Thus Nimbus found him and carried him home with his wonted tenderness, soothing him like a babe, and wondering what had occurred to discompose his usually sedate and cheerful friend.
A silly dream could not so discompose you. I beg you, I intreat you to tell me hath ever Colonel James " At the very mention of the colonel's name Amelia fell on her knees, and begged her husband not to frighten her. "What do I say, my dear love," cried Booth, "that can frighten you?"
Hence it is that it imitates what is divine, and looks upon all human concerns as inferior to virtue. Did you, then, say that it was your opinion that such a man was as naturally liable to perturbation as the sea is exposed to winds? What is there that can discompose such gravity and constancy? Anything sudden or unforeseen?
'Sit down for a moment one moment, he said, pointing to the end of the seat, and taking the extremest further end for himself, not to discompose her. She sat down. 'It is to ask a question, he went on, 'and there must be confidence between us. You have saved me from an act of madness! What can I do for you? 'Nothing, sir. 'Nothing? 'Father is very well off, and we don't want anything.
In the cleft of her little breasts the fiery eye of the topaz and the pale florets of primrose fascinated him. He saw the breasts heave, and the flowers shake with the heaving, and marvelled what should so much discompose the girl.
To give something martial to an appearance in other respects so outlandish and ludicrous, he had his rifle, and other usual equipments of a woodsman, including the knife and tomahawk, the first of which he carried in his hand, swinging it about at every moment, with a vigour and apparent carelessness well fitted to discompose a nervous person, had any such happened among his auditors.
Sometimes, too, he was rudely repulsed; hard epithets were applied to him; old men and old women, worried out by the continued calls of pedlers, sneered at him, or shut the door in his face; but Bobby was not disheartened. He persevered, and did not allow these little trials to discompose or discourage him.
The sudden recollection of this fact made him cast such a glance of scrutiny at the gentleman as to quite discompose him. "What's the old man up to, gimleting me in the eye like that? He's got something up his sleeve," thought Mahr. "I wonder did she ever corner him?" was the question uppermost in Gard's mind.
This extraordinary intimation, which was delivered in the lady's hearing, did not at all discompose me, who, by this time, was pretty well acquainted with the character of my rival. I therefore, without the least symptom of concern bade the gentleman tell Mr.
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