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Maybe it would be a scheme to bring Granny here to stay with her, and take a few months in some city this winter on those chemical points that trouble me. There is an old saying about 'absence making the heart grow fonder. Maybe separation is the thing to work the trick. I've tried about everything else I know. "But I'm in too much of a hurry! What a fool a man is!
Among those on board thus chafing to escape from the limitations of an ocean voyage was George Colfax, whose eagerness to land was enhanced by the hope that his absence had made the heart of his lady-love fonder. His travels had been restful and stimulating; but there is nothing like one's own country, after all.
You would have understood better just how it was, and it might even have made you fonder of him. You might have seen that he had flirted with some one else because he was so heart-broken about you." "Then you believe that if I could have waited till till but when I had found out, don't you see I couldn't wait? It would have been all very well if I hadn't known it till then. But as I did know it.
She was carrying drinks and refreshments on a tray which she was balancing with both hands, but she had met her lover and he tried to take advantage of her helplessness by tickling.... The teniente mayor presided at the production since the gobernadorcillo was fonder of monte. Maria Clara and her friends had arrived, and Don Filipo received them, and accompanied them to their seats.
How would you like to be served like that because you were ugly? She's not a bit fonder of her looks than you are only what can she do to change them? 'I'll do to change them, said the fellow. Thereupon the butchers brandished their long knives and advanced, keeping their eyes upon Lina. 'Don't be afraid, Lina, cried Curdie. 'I'll kill one you kill the other.
I passed my evenings with Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, during the remaining term of our residence under the same roof; and I think we became fonder of one another as the time went on. On the last Sunday, they invited me to dinner; and we had a loin of pork and apple sauce, and a pudding.
This King Midas was fonder of gold than of anything else in the world. He valued his royal crown chiefly because it was composed of that precious metal. If he loved anything better or half so well, it was the one little maiden who played so merrily around her father's footstool. But the more Midas loved his daughter, the more did he desire and seek for wealth.
And all might have been well if it had not been for Frokenen, the daughter of the house. I grew fonder of her every day. Her name was Elischeba, Elisabeth. No remarkable beauty, perhaps; but she had red lips, and a blue, girlish glance that made her pretty to see. Elischeba, Elisabeth a child at the first dawn of life, with eyes looking out upon the world.
Lewis died in 1818, and Scott says of him, "He did much good by stealth, and was a most generous creature fonder of great people than he ought to have been, either as a man of talent or as a man of fashion. He had always ladies and duchesses in his mouth, and was pathetically fond of any one that had a title.
Insipid offspring, the impatient reader says; but permits me to enumerate one or two of them: Karl, eldest Son; who is sure to be Brunswick in General; who is betrothed to Princess Charlotte of Prussia, "a satirical creature, she, fonder of my Prince than of him," Wilhelmina thinks. The wedding nevertheless took effect.
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