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The venerable and long ago forgiven schoolmaster was fearfully deaf, and to prevent the possibility of a single word escaping him, he stood close beside me, and with his hand behind his ear and the other resting tenderly on my shoulder, faithfully followed me in my journeyings to and fro across the stage during the two-hours' speech which followed.
People called the charcoal-burner a poacher, and he owed his ill-name of "Hangemarx" to the circumstance that once, though long ago, he had adorned a gallows. Yet he was not a dishonest man, only he remembered too faithfully the bold motto, which, when a boy, one peasant wood-cutter or charcoal-burner whispered to another: "Forest, stream and meadow are free."
He had been on his way to Riversford when he had stopped to look at the little fallen heap of violet and gold, guarded so faithfully by a four-footed beast twenty times more 'Christian' in natural feeling than his 'ordained' clerical self, and he now resumed that journey.
True it is, he may receive but moderate wages during this time; but on the other hand, he will be subjected to little or no risk. Let 1,000 young men, at the age of 30 years, enter into business with a given amount of capital, all acquired by their own hard earnings, and let them pursue their business 30 years faithfully; that is, till they are 60 years of age.
"Madam," said Tristram, "I promise you faithfully that I shall be all the days of my life your knight." "Grammercy," said the Fair Isoud, "and I promise you against that I shall not be married this seven years but by your assent." Then Sir Tristram gave her a ring, and she gave him another, and therewith he departed from her, leaving her making great dole and lamentation.
Plaisted that her name did not make her a "ninny," she selected some of her best pieces and sang her most charming songs; then, after a few soft notes, she broke into a bird-song, whistling the notes so faithfully true that Mr. Plaisted was startled as well as delighted, and the conversation he had begun with Gussie came to an abrupt end.
If not to-morrow, on the next day there is sure to be a boat going down the river.” “I also wish to take passages up the river for these Indians, who have served me most faithfully and well, and whom I regard as my friends.” “There will be no difficulty about that either, señor. Boats go occasionally from here up to the frontier, and sometimes beyond it.”
"I am, dear Madam, "Yours very faithfully, "PHINEAS MCPHAIL." Peggy came down to breakfast, and having dutifully kissed her parents, announced her intention of going to London by the eleven o'clock train. "Why, how can you, my dear?" asked Mrs. Conover. "I've nothing particular to do here for the next few days." "But your father and I have.
Sarah's writ to him, of course, to say as you won't let her have the cottage your father faithfully promised to her husband, and Coaker's coming over with threatenings and slaughters about that job. And then, as if that weren't enough, he'll find what a crow he's got to pluck with you on his own account about Mary." "The more comes out, the more it looks as if he'd better be kept away," said Mr.
You will serve the czar as faithfully as I have done; but better, because you are not a Russian, and you have not the inborn awe of title and rank.
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