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Duncan Macwheeble, is the fourth on our list. There is a question, owing to the incertitude of ancient orthography, whether he belongs to the clan of Wheedle or of Quibble, but both have produced persons eminent in the law. As such he described them by person and name, They enter'd, and dinner was served as they came.
This was a sacrifice not to him, but myself, having resolved, after so narrow an escape, to run no more risks, but to leave Paris, if it was possible, with all the virtue I enter'd it. C'est deroger a noblesse, Monsieur, said La Fleur, making me a bow down to the ground as he said it. Mon Dieu! said La Fleur, and took away.
At the gate he threw his arms about his mother's neck; each press'd a long kiss on the lips of the other, and the youngster bent his steps towards his master's house. As her child pass'd out of sight the widow return'd, shut the gate and enter'd her lonely room. There was no light in the old cottage that night the heart of its occupant was dark and cheerless.
By noon the bar was half sever'd, and I broke off to whistle a tune. 'Twas "Vivre en tout cas, C'est le grand soulas " and I broke off to hear the key turning in my lock. The jailer's daughter enter'd with my second meal. Her eyes were red with weeping. Said I, "Does your father beat you?" "He has, before now," she replied: "but not to-day." "Then why do you weep?" "Not for that."
And as far as a hundred pounds went, he would fling it upon the table, guinea by guinea, with that spirited jerk of an honest welcome, which generous souls, and generous souls only, are able to fling down money: but as soon as ever he enter'd upon the odd fifty he generally gave a loud Hem! rubb'd the side of his nose leisurely with the flat part of his fore finger inserted his hand cautiously betwixt his head and the cawl of his wig look'd at both sides of every guinea as he parted with it and seldom could get to the end of the fifty pounds, without pulling out his handkerchief, and wiping his temples.
Amandus! at every town and city, sitting down forlorn at the gate Has Amandus! has my Amandus enter'd? till, going round, and round, and round the world chance unexpected bringing them at the same moment of the night, though by different ways, to the gate of Lyons, their native city, and each in well-known accents calling out aloud, Is Amandus / Is my Amanda still alive?
I went to the old Manse, walk'd through the ancient garden, enter'd the rooms, noted the quaintness, the unkempt grass and bushes, the little panes in the windows, the low ceilings, the spicy smell, the creepers embowering the light.
To despond, I thought, would be mistrusting the Bounty of our Creator, and might be the ready way to plunge me into the Miseries Men naturally apprehend in my Circumstances. I therefore heartily recommended me to the Divine Protection, and enter'd the Woods which lay along the Coast.
I have known a Soldier that has enter'd a Breach, affrighted at his own Shadow; and look pale upon a little scratching at his Door, who the Day before had march'd up against a Battery of Cannon. The Truth of it is, I look upon a sound Imagination as the greatest Blessing of Life, next to a clear Judgment and a good Conscience.
Upon which he enter'd the vault, and seeing a very beautiful woman, amaz'd at first, he fancy'd 'twas a spirit, but viewing the dead body, and considering her tears and torn face, he soon guest, as it was, that the lady cou'd not bear the loss of her husband: he brings his supper with him into the vault, and began to perswade the mournful lady not to continue her unnecessary grief, nor with vain complaints consume her health: That death was common to all men; and many other things he told her, that use to restore afflicted persons to that calmness they before enjoy'd: But she mov'd anew at the comfort a stranger offer'd, redoubl'd her grief, and tearing her hair, cast it on the body that lay before her.
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