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Another observation I had made was that goodnatured unambitious men are cowards when they have no religion.
"Well, I can't just say that," answered Frau Krause. "Not but what it mightn't be better if he was. It's the ones as don't drink who are the hard ones to get on with, in my experience. Young gentlemen who like their liquor, are of the goodnatured, easy-going sort. Now I once had a young fellow here " "But I don't see in the least what you've got to complain of!" said Madeleine.
If my father had been less goodnatured in the sporting relations of his vast estates, or less magnificent in dealing with his fortune, or even if he had failed to exhibit the intellectual force which always characterised his letters on public matters, I dare say that his oddities would have condemned him to ridicule, and possibly to dislike.
It was after that time, as will be understood, that some goodnatured friend had told him that he was regarded in the county as the future husband of Lady Desmond. At first he laughed at this as being as he himself said to himself too good a joke. When the report first reached him, it seemed to be a joke which he could share so pleasantly with the countess.
"I guess they are sweet!" piped up Freddie in his shrill little voice, "'cause Dinah put lots of sugar in 'em; didn't you, Dinah?" and he looked at Dinah, who had thrust her laughing, black, goodnatured face into the dining room door. "Dat's what I did, honey! Dat's what I did!" she exclaimed. "If anybody's got a toofache he'd better not eat any ob dem cakes, 'cause dey suah am sweet."
No Englishman zealous for the Bill of Rights and the Protestant religion would willingly do any thing which could be construed into an act of homage to a Popish pretender. Yet no goodnatured and generous man, however firm in his Whig principles, would willingly offer any thing which could look like an affront to an innocent and a most unfortunate child.
"How are you?" said the man with a goodnatured nod and smile, as if to re-assure the round-eyed children staring at him. "Pretty well, thank you, sir," responded Bab, politely nodding back at him. "Folks at home?" asked the man, looking over their heads toward the house. "Only Ma; all the rest have gone to be married." "That sounds lively.
The goodnatured Mole picked up a stick, formed his prisoners up in a line on the floor, gave them the order 'Quick march! and led his squad off to the upper floor. After a time, he appeared again, smiling, and said that every room was ready, and as clean as a new pin. 'And I didn't have to lick them, either, he added.
I was soon to understand it all soon, too, to know all about my father's impending journey, whither, with what visitor, and why guarded from me with so awful a mystery. That day there came a lively and goodnatured letter from Lady Knollys. She was to arrive at Knowl in two or three days' time. I thought my father would have been pleased, but he seemed apathetic and dejected.
It wuz real good in Druzilla, and Ezra, and also in the Deacon. It kinder ondeared the hull on 'em to me. I hope this won't be told of, it orto be kep for he wuz a goodnatured lookin' hired man, black, but not to blame for that and good land! what is a straw? anyway they wuz clean.
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