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The making of the bread was rightly the duty of Anpu's wife; she ought to have risen to grind the corn long before dawn, as the millstones may now be heard grinding in the dark, morning by morning; she ought to have baked the bread ready for the toiler who spent his whole day in the field. But it was the ever-willing Bata who did the work of the house as well as the work of the farm.
It came quite easily to the edge of the bank when Lindsay pulled the chain, and seemed deliberately to invite them to step into it. Such a temptation was not to be resisted. In a moment they were both inside. "If I can manage to untie it, I'm sure I could punt us out on to the river," said Lindsay. "Oh, do! And then perhaps we could find some water-lilies," agreed her ever-willing friend.
Now, drama, and that of richest quality might perhaps for she admitted the existence of awkward conjunctions be said to batter at her door. She thought of the Miss Minetts, her ever-willing audience. She thought also as so frequently during the last, in some respects, extremely unsatisfactory twenty-four hours of Mr. Rochester and of Jane Eyre.
The present, with all its sorrows, its remorse and its shame, had sunk away; only the past remained the unforgettable past, when Marguerite was "little mother" the soother, the comforter, the healer, the ever-willing receptacle wherein he had been wont to pour the burden of his childish griefs, of his boyish escapades.
My father was truly gratified with the substantial evidence of Brougham's kindly remembrance of him; and I? how could I be grateful enough? not only for my father's never-failing attention to my growth in knowledge and wisdom, but to his ever-willing readiness to help me onward in the path of scientific working and mechanical engineering.
I had just turned into a tangle of scrub-brush, and could hear the breakers pound and hiss as they swept up upon the hard smooth beach beyond the dunes, when a low whistle brought me to a leisurely halt, and I saw Pierre spring up from a thicket a rod ahead of me a Government carbine nestled in the hollow of his arm. I could scarcely believe it was the genial and ever-willing Pierre of my garden.
How can you be noble, and keep from envying your neighbors, without a prayer for divine grace to assist you to resist such temptation?" "Oh, daughter of the dark ages," said Wauna, sadly, "turn to the benevolent and ever-willing Science.
He is dead now, poor man! but he was a regular type of a Landdrost. He lived a very quiet life, and the brunt of the work fell to the lot of the ever-willing and conscientious clerk, which arrangement allowed the Landdrost sufficient leisure to attend to a somewhat large garden.
"I would contrive some way to spill him into the drink," chuckled the ever-willing conspirator. Mr. Hamblin was then cool and self-possessed, and he did not venture out upon the treacherous spar, and the entangling rigging, so that the wretch on the cap had no opportunity to give him a second bath in the dirty Scheldt.
Attempting to keep watch over it oneself is sure to result in a dismal failure, whereas an Osmanli gray-beard becomes an ever-willing custodian, regards its safe-keeping as appealing to his honor, and will stand guard over it for hours if necessary, keeping the noisy and curious crowds of his townspeople at a respectful distance "by brandishing a thick stick at anyone who ventures to approach too near.
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