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I hear he played fast and loose till he found your daughter had better prospects than Miss Conway, whom my fool of a nephew chose to marry, and now he is making up to my niece. My mother dotes on him, and I shall make no objection no extravagance that I can see, and he will take care of the property. You will take no offence, since you refuse the tender altogether.
Wasn't there ever any one else?" Susan Betts drew a long sigh. "There were two brothers, but they died before you was born. Then there was your mother." "But I never knew her?" "No, child. When they opened the door of Heaven to let you out she slipped in, poor lamb. An' then you was all your father had left. So of course he dotes on you.
"You and I know, dear Queen," Katie confided to the member of her sex lying at her feet, "that men are not at all difficult. You can get them to swallow most anything if the girl in the case is beautiful enough. And feminine enough! Masculine dotes on discovering feminine but have you ever noticed what the rest of the feminine dote on doing to that discovery?
Nevertheless, you offend, my sweet friend. But what do you think of eating some kind of cabirotadoes? Wouldn't this secure us from this storm? I have read that the ministers of the gods Cabiri, so much celebrated by Orpheus, Apollonius, Pherecydes, Strabo, Pausanias, and Herodotus were always secure in time of storm. He dotes, he raves, the poor devil!
"Oh! is that her father?" the law student continued, aghast. "Yes, certainly; the old man had two daughters; he dotes on them, so to speak, though they will scarcely acknowledge him." "Didn't the second daughter marry a banker with a German name?" the Vicomtesse asked, turning to Mme. de Langeais, "a Baron de Nucingen? And her name is Delphine, is it not?
"And mebbe I can make him start back for the woods again to-night. Oh, dear me! 'Tis an awful thing! I don't want him 'round an' yet when he's sober he's the nicest man 'ith young'uns ye ever see. He jest dotes on this poor little thing," and she looked down again into the weazened face of the baby.
And that the objections of Connecticut may be met, the original charter of the West India Company should be solemnly confirmed by a public act of their High Mightinesses, under their great seal, which an Englishman commonly dotes upon like an idol." Scarcely were these documents dispatched when new and still more alarming outbreaks occurred.
Mathematics, the very thing common sense swears by and dotes on, contradicts common sense at every turn. Common sense balks at the idea of less than nothing; yet the minus quantity, which in one sense is less than nothing in that something must be added to it to make it equal to nothing, is a concept without which algebra would have to come to a full stop.
"Well," she replied, smiling, "what shall it be? a few gems from Moody and Sankey, or from 'Laurel Leaves'?" And then turning to Frank she added: "My brother just dotes on church music!" "Alice," said her brother with mock sternness, "if you fib like that you know the penalty!" "Do you play or sing, Mr. Nason?" she inquired, not heeding her brother.
You know how she dotes on darning." "Yes, I know," smiled Aunt Hannah. "By the way, where is she this morning?" Billy raised her eyebrows quizzically. "Gone to look at an apartment in Cambridge, I believe.
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