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Updated: June 4, 2025
This was more than I could stand. By my bed stood the veldtschoons I had been wearing. Moved quite beyond myself, I took them up and threw them straight at Good's head and hit it. Afterwards I slept the sleep of the just, and a very heavy sleep it must be. As for Good, I don't know if he went to sleep or if he continued to pass Sorais' beauties in mental review, and, what is more, I don't care.
But you, I trust, will not do good as a usurer lends his money; you will do it will you not? for good's sake. Noblesse oblige. Nevertheless, do not bestow such services as to force others to ingratitude, for if you do, they will become your most implacable enemies; obligations sometimes lead to despair, like the despair of ruin itself, which is capable of very desperate efforts.
'Heard him telling Prater this morning. Half the staff have gone. Good opportunity for a chap to go for a stroll if he wanted to. Shall we, by the way? 'Not for me, thanks. I'm in the middle of a rather special book. Ever read Great Expectations? Dickens, you know. 'I know. Haven't read it, though. Always rather funk starting on a classic, somehow. Good? 'My dear chap! Good's not the word.
The ne'er-do-well of a family who in one place has his debts paid a couple of times and is then forced to resign from his clubs and lead a cloudy but innocuous existence on a small pension, in the other abruptly finishes his career by being hung for horse-stealing. In the backwoods the lawless led lives of abandoned wickedness; they hated good for good's sake, and did their utmost to destroy it.
"Very good; then here we have it '4 June, total eclipse of the moon commences at 8.15 Greenwich time, visible in Teneriffe South Africa, &c. There's a sign for you. Tell them we will darken the moon to-morrow night." The idea was a splendid one; indeed, the only weak spot about it was a fear lest Good's almanack might be incorrect.
Why, there's Jarvey the painter; you know him, Sidney. His guvnor sent him on a job to Jones's place, an' they sent him back. "Why, he's an old man," they says. "What good's a man of that age for liftin' ladders about?" An' Jarvey's no older than me. Sidney knitted his brows. He had heard the complaint from too many men to be able to dispute its justice.
You don't expect me to appear in a new country in these things, do you? and he pointed to his soiled and worn garments, which were however, like all Good's things, very tidy, and with every tear neatly mended. We said no more, but watched his proceedings with breathless interest.
What she must have suffered from cramp and weariness, to say nothing of want of food, nobody will ever know; but it is the fact that, when at last he woke, she had to be carried away her limbs were so stiff that she could not move them. After the turn had once been taken, Good's recovery was rapid and complete.
I ain't a speeder of matrimony, and good's my reason! but where it's been done where they're lawfully joined, and their bodies made one, I do say this, that to put division between 'em then, it's to make wanderin' comets of 'em creatures without a objeck, and no soul can say what they's good for but to rush about!" Mrs.
He was entirely serious, and almost sincere. He loathed paying money over to his son. He was convinced that in an ideal world sons would toil gratis for their fathers who lodged and fed them and gifted them with the reversion of excellent businesses. "But what good's a pound a week?" Edwin demanded, with the querulousness of one who is losing hope. "What good's a pound a week!"
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