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"The cob has a leg on him as big as your own since the last day one of them had him out!" The master of the house looked round with exceeding disfavour on his eight good-looking daughters. "However, I suppose it's as good to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, and if you don't want him "
"Who can they be?" "Look at the girls!" "Exquisite!" "Beautiful!" "For my part I see nothing in them. Vilely dressed. Very far from modish." "Too tall." "Too short" in fact, every expression of approval and disfavour. But every lady stood on the tips of her satin shoes to see, and every gentleman took the fullest advantage of his height; and had poor Harry been there, he had died of jealousy.
I run through time and, O my heart, in your chariot dances the poet who sings while he wanders. You took my hand and drew me to your side, made me sit on the high seat before all men, till I became timid, unable to stir and walk my own way; doubting and debating at every step lest I should tread upon any thorn of their disfavour. I am freed at last!
Besides, town opinion, still prejudiced by memories of the old Poor Law, would have viewed with extreme disfavour, had such an experiment ever been tried, the importation of men and families whose coming must surely result in pauperism for somebody, and in a consequent charge upon the rates.
"So here we are at last," cried she, indignantly, after she had walked round and severely inspected her quarters, pausing to "pull a lip" of extreme disfavour at the handsome portrait of Mr. Landale that hung between the windows, "we are, Madeleine, at last, kidnapped, imprisoned, successfully disposed of, in fact."
"I wonder," I said, continuing in this strain, "why this should be and why she should likewise single you out as a recipient of her disapproval or let us say her disfavour?" "Can't you guess?" said Miss Hamm, with an arch expression and a peculiar inflection in her words. Puzzled, I shook my head. At this juncture another interruption occurred. A caller in the person of a Mr.
At present, as at other periods during the recorded story of literature, there is a marked preference for all these things which it is not; and so Scott is, with certain persons, in disfavour accordingly. But it so happens that the study of this now long record of literature is itself sufficient to convince anyone how treacherous the tests thus suggested are.
"I was taking you for a Fiji man-of-war, what with your flush decks and them spars. Well, gen'lemen all, here's wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," he added, and lurched against a stay. "Why, you're never the pilot?" exclaimed Wicks, studying him with a profound disfavour. "You've never taken a ship in don't tell me!" "Well, I should guess I have," returned the pilot.
Private Conklin was a convalescent and should have been tenderly treated. "Ho! "said Private Conklin. "There's another bloomin' orf'cer da- ed." The bucket shot from under him, and his eyes filled with a smithyful of sparks. A tall man in a blue-gray bedgown was regarding him with deep disfavour. "You ought to take shame for yourself, Conky! Orf'cer? bloomin' orf'cer?
As he reflected upon the matter now, scowling abstractedly at the button of the electric bell, turning the whole business over in his mind, he remembered that to-day was butter-making day and that Mrs. Tree would be occupied in the dairy. That meant that Hilma would take her place. He turned to the mirror of the sideboard, scrutinising his reflection with grim disfavour.
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