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I then take a short turn or two across the floor, silently perusing my office, after which I lay it aside, and relax into a little conversation with the people of the house, to show that I can conciliate by love as readily as I can impress them with fear; for, you see divide et impera is as aptly applied to the passions as to maxims of state policy ehem.
His parochial pastor and spiritual superior is a gentleman, or, as Horace says, homo factus ad unguem which is paraphrastically every inch a gentleman or more literally, a gentleman to the tops of his fingers ehem hem down to the very nails as it were.
He found it no easy matter to make his peace; and before he had quite done it, he called for his bill, and rose to depart. "Well!" said he, as he tendered his hand to the Corporal, "we may meet again, and enjoy together some more of your good stories. Meanwhile, which is my way to this this this famous scholar's Ehem?"
The philosophical raison, is decided on by Socrates, and the great Phelim M'Poteen, two of the most celebrated liquorary characters that ever graced the sunny side of a plantation, is, that when a man commences a narration with his clay not moist, the said narration is found, by all lamed experience, to be a very dry one ehem!" "Very right, Mr.
The youth took courage, and approached. "Honoured mine host," said he, "I thank thee for hospitality and kindness, I crave pardon for disturbing thee in thy incanta ehem! thy thy studies, and I come to bid thee farewell."
"In age we should remember that we have been young, and in youth that we are to be old." Ehem! am I not profound as a moralist? I think a few such sentences would become my long face well; and, to say truth, I am tired of being witty; every one thinks he can be that: so I will borrow Trollolop's philosophy, take snuff, wear a wig out of curl, and grow wise instead of merry.
"It has, your worship; but they " "And, sir, could you declare solemnly, that there is nothing stolen in the notes and comments, or introduction, if there is any?" The doctor, "Ehem! hem!" "But in the meantime," proceeded Coke, "here have I gone to the trouble of giving such a profound decision upon a mere translation! Who is the translator?"
But I persave my mother has anticipated me, and boiled them both with that flitch of bacon that's playing the vagrant in the big pot there. Tria juncla in uno, as Horace says in the Epodes, when expatiating upon the Roman Emperors ehem!"
Had it been the highroad instead of a ballroom, I could have talked loudly enough; but I was under a spell. 'Ehem! I faltered at last, 'e-h-e-m! Some mis-take, I I There I stopped. "'Sir, said the earl, regarding me with a grave sternness, 'you had better withdraw.
"'Bless me! what's all this? cried Lady Margaret, dropping my palsied arm, and gazing on me as if she expected me to talk like a hero. "'Oh, said I, 'eh-e-m, eh-e-m, I will exp lain to-morrow, ehem, e-h-e-m. I made to the door; all the eyes in the room seemed turned into burning-glasses, and blistered the very skin on my face.
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