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Nelle turned quickly to Riekje: "Get up, my girl, so that I may see whether I am to kiss your good-for- nothing husband." Dolf bent over Riekje and looked under her chair, pretending not to find anything at first; finally he held the jug of milk triumphantly out at arm's length. He laughed gayly, his hand on his thigh: "Ah! who'll be kissed now, mother? Who'll be kissed?"
My general, old Blucher, under whom I fought in 1806, is also at Breslau, and what will he say when he looks for his old hussars of 1806, and does not find Prohaska! He will say, 'Prohaska has become a coward a lazy old good-for- nothing." "No, father, he will not say so," exclaimed Leonora, ardently; "if he knows you, he cannot say so.
"Let us leave that question, then, since it seems to irritate you, and let us go on to your residence here. How have you supported yourself at Saigon?" "By my work, forsooth! I have two arms; and I am not a good-for- nothing." "You have found employment, you say, as engraver on metal?" "No." "But you said" Evariste Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet, could hardly conceal his impatience.
"We wish it distinctly understood that this is no cheap, good-for- nothing 'pop-gun'; and while none can expect it to be 'silver- mounted' for $1.50, they have a right to expect the worth of their money, and in this new improved seven-shooter a want is supplied. "Great care is taken in the adjustment of EACH, so that ALL are equally good and reliable.
"Cousin William," replied the poor captain, "I am sure I never calculated; but still, if you had seen that deceitful man's good-for- nothing face as yellow as a guinea and have gone through all I've gone through, you would have felt cut to the heart, as I do. I can't bear ingratitude. I never could. But let it pass. Will that gentleman take a chair?" PARSON. "Mr.
That's your apology for undermining my health and ruining your family! What do you think your children will say of you when they grow up going and throwing away your money upon good-for- nothing pot-house acquaintance? "Who is he, then? Come, you haven't told me that; but I know it's that Prettyman! Yes, to be sure it is! Upon my life! Well, if I've hardly patience to lie in the bed!
I should have called up to see you before this if it hadn't been for the boy's sickness. But I am a good-for- nothing neighbour, as you have doubtless heard. Nobody expects anything of me." "I don't know about that," she answered swiftly. "You've given me, for one, a great deal of pleasure with your wonderful music. I often hear you as you play after supper, and it has kept me from being lonesome.
Barbara nodded pleasantly to him, saying: "Very pretty. Perhaps you might arrange your little verse in a duo, but how you must have taxed your imagination, you poor fellow, to transform the flighty good-for- nothing whom you left five years ago into a brilliant queen!" "Because, even at that time," he ardently exclaimed.
While all the people were shouting, and having a good time, Jeanne Marie and I had to stay here in this good-for- nothing Temple, and see and hear nothing of the fine doings. And this drives the gall into my blood, and it will make us both sick, and it is past endurance!" "I believe that you are right, citizen," said the physician, thoughtfully.
I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for- nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains. I took the air in gay carriages, I such a scapegrace; and you, little child, you so good! All gone, all melted away from me, and not able now to be sure that you will have a crust of bread this day week." "Oh, yes!
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