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When Julius thought of the cherishing care that he had received himself, he shuddered, with a sort of self-reproach for his neglect; and the doctor, though good- humouredly telling Herbert not to think he knew anything about his own symptoms, did not conceal from Julius that enough harm had been done in these few days to give the fine Bowater constitution a hard struggle.

She met his glance for a few seconds; then her lids were lowered and she bit her lip with vexation. "Shirley," he said. "You are presumptuous," she quavered. "You set me an example in presumption," he retorted good humouredly. "Did you not call ME by MY first name a minute ago?" He glanced toward Colonel Pennington and observed the latter with his neck craned across his protecting stump.

"Have you seen anything?" "I It may be nothing. He is dead!" stammered Anne. "Oh then, 'tis naught but a maid's fancies," said the nurse good- humouredly. "Miss Dunord is in no mind for the sports, so she will stay with His Highness, and you had best come with me and drive the cobwebs out of your brain." "Indeed, I thank you, ma'am, but I could not," said Anne.

Feemy had been at mass with the family, and when she met Father John afterwards, she exerted herself to appear before him as she usually did, and to a certain extent she succeeded. Father John was himself usually cheerful, and he spoke to her good humouredly, and she made an effort to answer him in the same strain; this deceived the priest, and when Mrs.

She came back, and worked her way up into the wagon with one hand full as it could hold of her brilliant trophies. "Now, what good 'll that do you?" inquired Mr. Ringgan, good- humouredly, as he lent Fleda what help he could to her seat. "Why, grandpa, I want it to put with cedar and pine in a jar at home; it will keep for ever so long, and look beautiful.

It was good there was somebody at home to do the work." "Not your work, Di," said her husband good humouredly; "nor my work. I did that. Come along and see what I have done." He drew her off, into the little front hall or entry; from there, through a side door into the new part of the building.

"Hist, Valletort, hist! speak lower," said Captain Blessington, the senior officer present, "or our search must be in vain. Poor fellow!" he pursued, laughing low and good humouredly at the picture of miseries thus solemnly enumerated by his subaltern; "how much, in truth, are you to be pitied, who have so recently basked in all the sunshine of enjoyment at home.

When he heard Lord Lytton was going to India, he gave Millais a commission to paint a portrait of the new Viceroy. Millais used good humouredly to relate the lofty condescending style in which it was announced. "It gives me, I assure you, great pleasure to learn that you are so advancing in your profession.

"Better have left it alone, I believe," observed he, reinserting the poker, and again stirring up the black mass, for the fire was now virtually defunct. "You're not cold, I hope, sir?" said the party, turning to Newton. "No, sir, not very," replied Newton, good humouredly. "I thought so; clients never are: nothing like law for keeping you warm, sir.

He has been only a few months at school and is still, so to speak, in the preparatory class, but already does a little more clumsily, but more good humouredly and conscientiously small addition and subtraction sums quite as well as many a child of the same age.

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