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Boyd's acquaintance with my father was enough. After dinner, Lady Errol favoured us with a sight of her young family, whom she made stand up in a row. There were six daughters and two sons. It was a very pleasing sight. Dr. Johnson proposed our setting out. Mr. Boyd said, he hoped we would stay all night; his brother would be at home in the evening, and would be very sorry if he missed us. Mr.
Why should you have been so enraged at my finding your exact address? Any woman would have tried to do it you know she would have. And no woman would have lived under assumed names so long as I did. I repeat that I did not call myself Mrs. Manston until I came to this lodging at the beginning of this month what could you expect? 'A helpless creature I, had not fortune favoured me unexpectedly.
Saint Prix, a celebrated actor of the Théâtre Français, frequently accepted this post, he favoured the hasty interviews of the king, his wife, and sister. In the evening one of the queen's women moved her bed between that of her mistress and the open door of the apartment, that she might thus conceal her from the eyes of the sentinels.
"If thou dost prove as faithful and bold as thou art well favoured, I shall have in thee one of the handsomest and best esquires in the Guard, which cannot but be an honour to thy mother's family. Follow me to the presence chamber; and see thou keep close at my shoulder."
But sleep shed not her poppies upon his busy, anxious head. His mind was crouded with a thousand fearful phantoms. A child of the valley, he was a stranger to misfortune and misery. Upon the favoured sons of nature calamity makes her deepest impression, and an impression least capable of being erased.
I could say nothing, for I knew not how far we had run; yet we had come a long way, and I thought that surely we must have sailed as swiftly as Lodbrok, for the sea had favoured us rather than given trouble. Even now I thought the colour of the water changed a little, and I began to think that we neared some land at last.
Certain ancient strata, known as the Devonian black shale, occupying the Ohio valley and the neighbouring parts of North America to the east and north of that basin, appear to be accumulations which were made beneath an ancient Sargassum sea. The ocean currents have greatly favoured and in many instances determined the migrations not only of marine forms, but of land creatures as well.
'Certainly; he was sergeant of my troop, and son of a tenant of my uncle. 'Exactly and had a considerable share of your confidence, and an influence among his comrades? 'I had never occasion to repose confidence in a person of his description, answered Waverley. 'I favoured Sergeant Houghton as a clever, active young fellow, and I believe his fellow-soldiers respected him accordingly.
'And the more the time, pursued the neighbour, 'the more you've favoured and humoured her, John, till she's got to be a burden to herself, and everybody else. 'Not to me, said her father, falling to his work. 'Not to me. Florence could feel who better? how truly he spoke.
Shakespeare, however favoured by nature, could impart only what he had learned; and as he must increase his ideas, like other mortals, by gradual acquisition, he, like them, grew wiser as he grew older, could display life better, as he knew it more, and instruct with more efficacy, as he was himself more amply instructed.
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