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"I did not know you would seek me. I've been away many a time, and no one has cared to seek me," said he, crying afresh. "Nonsense," replied Susan, "don't be so foolish, ye little good-for- nought." But she crept up to him in the hole he had made underneath the great, brown sheafs of wood, and squeezed herself down by him.
Sugar and spice and all that's nice. In more or less varied form the idea has entered into her blood, shutting out from her hope of improvement. The girl is discouraged from asking herself the occasionally needful question: Am I on the way to becoming a sound, useful member of society? Or am I in danger of degenerating into a vain, selfish, lazy piece of good-for- nothing rubbish?
There is a Roger there's two for that matter; but one is a good-for- nothing old man; and there's never an Osborne any more, unless this little thing is called Osborne: we'll take him here, and get a nurse for him; and make his mother comfortable for life in her own country. I'll keep this, Molly. You're a good lass for finding it. Osborne Hamley!
"If you please, I'll thank you to say no more like that about my master," she said with dignity. "He's neither shiftless, nor good-for- nothin'. His character is unbleachable! He's an artist an' a scholar an' a gentleman, an' a very superlative man. It's because he knows so much that that he jest hain't got room for common things like clothes an' holes in socks."
"Did you not say Sunday, at the 'Femme-sans-Tete', and in the presence of Thiedot, that all the servants of the chateau were idlers and good-for- nothings, and that if you met one of them who tried to annoy you, you would level him with your plane?" "If you used the word 'level, it was very uncivil," observed Rousselet.
Don't forget that my mother was your own sister, too." "I'm not likely to forget it, after she's bundled such a baggage as you into my care. You're turning out a worthless, good-for- nothing loaf " "You haven't said whether or not I might go to the circus, Uncle," reminded Phil. "Circus? No! I'll have none of my money spent on any such worthless "
"Why, there's a boy in that tree," said Frank. "That big bully must have hit him before I came, and that was the boy's cry I heard. The good-for- nothing loafer!" Frank rounded the brush in an impetuous and indignant way. He was about to challenge the man, when the latter shouted something at the boy across the stream, and Frank stopped to listen.
She said they lied, and she would see to them later, and she went into the chamber she used for a sleeping apartment, and trod on something more on the floor in the dark; those good-for- nothing hussies of slaves had not lit her palm-oil lamp, and mentally forming the opinion that they had been out flirting during her absence, and resolving to teach them well the iniquity of such conduct, she sat down on her bed into a lot of messy stuff of a clammy, damp nature.
One of the soldiers cried out to the other as Madame Darpent's black dress and white cap flashed into the light: 'It is the holy saint who has appeared to avenge the sacrilege! She has struck him dead. And behold the superstition affected even the licentious good-for- nothing Abbe. Down he dropped upon his knees, hiding his eyes, and sobbing out: 'Sancta Margarita, spare me, spare me!
"But I don't like 'almosts. Besides, you really must mind what you are about, Lydia; for I assure you there is no doubt at all about the fact of his engagement. He stated it himself." "Well, and suppose he did," said Lydia, "and suppose some good-for- nothing woman, in an equivocal position, has trapped him into an offer.
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