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She was very fond of Jack, who was a nice-looking, smooth-faced young fellow, idolised by his sisters over whom he tyrannised, and bullied by his grandfather, before whom he quaked. "I'm afraid not, Jack; but you shall come and see me at Littlebath, if you will." "I should like it, of all things; but I do wish you'd stay: the house is so much nicer when you are in it!"
Now the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross was not only to bring men back into fellowship with God, but also into fellowship with their fellow men. Indeed it cannot do one without the other. As the spokes get nearer the centre of the wheel, they get nearer to one another.
One of these was a red-haired, short, thickset fellow, with an ugly, bulldog sort of a face, whose beetle-brows met over a pair of ferrety eyes, giving him a most forbidding appearance, and I did not like the look of him at all.
We had lost our estates it mattered little who gained them. "Monsieur, you once did me a priceless service. I have never forgotten shall never forget " "Just as I thought," I remarked aloud, "the poor fellow still feels under an obligation to me!" "Believe me, monsieur, it is with poignant grief I write this brief note." "Ah," I continued, "he has discovered some fresh villainy.
Finding out a clue like this and pluckily carrying it through all by yourself. By Jove, it's splendid of you! especially when you've no reason to do much for your uncle after the way in which he's treated you. I admire you, George. By Gad, I do admire you!" "Not at all!" George advised him. "By no means, old fellow." He wiped his brow; his mental suffering was considerable.
If a villager wishes to level a withering sarcasm at the head of a plausible, talkative fellow, all promise and no performance, ready with tongue but not with purse or service, he calls him a vakeel, that is, a lawyer.
The mother did her best, you may be sure, to make Meg look winsome, but when the poor fellow saw his unintentional intended he turned round to the chief and said, "Laird, if ye have nae objection, I think I would rather be hung." "And sae ye shall, me lad, and welcome," the old chief replied, in a rage.
Then according to my version there came a man, still young, dressed in outlandish clothes, who made propositions of peace and wanted to marry Yva, who wanted to marry him. Is that right?" "Absolutely." "Well, and didn't you recognise the man?" "No; I only noticed that he was a fine-looking fellow whose appearance reminded me of someone."
Yet when he came to think it over quietly he was constrained to admit to himself that the match would have many advantages for the young lady, whereof the first and foremost were that Stephen was very rich, and although slangy and without education in its better sense, at heart by no means a bad little fellow.
Livingstone was mistaken when she hinted of an engagement between her niece and Mr. Everett. Knowing John Jr.'s straightforward way of speaking, he determined to sound him, so he said, "Your sister and Mr. Everett evidently prefer each other's society to ours." "Oh, yes," answered John. "I saw that years ago, when Anna wasn't knee-high; and I'm glad of it, for Everett is a mighty fine fellow."
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