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Yet somehow the oldest residenters and the very family-men loved the place, with all its brave wickedness and splendid folly." I can testify that the town knew little or no change in the two years that followed. The "El Dorado" on the plaza, and the "Arcade" and "Polka" on Commercial Street, were still in full blast. How came I aware of that fact?
How often have we, we poets, politicians, philosophers, family-men, found charming excuses for our own rascalities in the monstrous wickedness of the world about us; how loudly have we abused the times and our neighbours! All this devil's logic did Mrs. Catherine, lying wakeful in her bed on the night of the Marylebone fete, exert in gloomy triumph.
"I don't know," said he "but I observe all respectable family-men do there must be something in it I shall discover the secret by and by." In this house did Mr. Ferrers ensconce himself with two middle-aged maidservants, and a man out of livery, whom he chose from a multitude of candidates, because the man looked especially well fed.
'family-men. Yes, I'm a family-man; upon my honour I am!" "Then why on earth," cried Mrs. Beale, "didn't you marry a family-woman?" Sir Claude looked at her hard. "YOU know who one marries, I think. Besides, there ARE no family-women hanged if there are! None of them want any children hanged if they do!"
"I don't know," said he "but I observe all respectable family-men do there must be something in it I shall discover the secret by and by." In this house did Mr. Ferrers ensconce himself with two middle-aged maidservants, and a man out of livery, whom he chose from a multitude of candidates, because the man looked especially well fed.
The average price paid for houses in our district large roomy houses for prosperous family-men, contracted for with a carpenter, to build, paint, and thoroughly finish off runs from £250 to £500, or something like it. Kauri timber is used almost exclusively in the North, so that we may say we live under the shadow of the Kauri pine.
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