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"There's nothing like plenty of Epsum salts for boys. I'd try 'em on him, Mother Duff." "Dan, dear," said Susan Peckaby insinuatingly for she had come in along with the rest, ignoring for the moment what might be waiting at her door "was it in the pound as you saw Rachel's ghost?" "'Twarn't Rachel's ghost as I did see," persisted Dan. "Tell us who it was, then?" asked she, humouring him.
Thorley Rushworth play toward a fond and unperceiving husband: a smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence. It was easier, and less dastardly on the whole, for a wife to play such a part toward her husband.
He was desperate now. "What would your saintly, crop-eared friends say if they knew as much of your past history as I do?" "Tis a matter for conjecture," said Hogan, humouring him. "How think you would they welcome the story of the roystering rake and debauchee who deserted the army of King Charles because they were about to hang him for murder?" "Ah! how, indeed?" sighed Hogan.
'Appealed to in this irresistible manner, Mr. Hearing this, the company, by way of humouring the joke, drank a new toast: Success to the nurse's hotel, and a speedy rise in the dividend!
His courteous bearing evidently had an influence on the Bishop, who dropping his usual brutal tone mumbled something about his wish to drink Lord de Mowbray's health. "You shall all drink his health," said Mr Mountchesney humouring him, and he gave directions that a couple of barrels of ale should be broached in the park before the castle.
His nephew was only of a younger brother's family, but was considered as his uncle's heir; and though he was under the necessity of attending to his uncle for an establishment, and still more so of humouring him, in order to get his estate, he could not avoid his fate. Mrs.
But memory was given us for better purposes than this, and mine is not a torment, but a source of pleasure. To muse upon the gaiety and youth I have known suggests to me glad scenes of harmless mirth that may be passing now. From contemplating them apart, I soon become an actor in these little dramas, and humouring my fancy, lose myself among the beings it invokes.
Pondering thus, I became a little vexed with myself for my untactful treatment of the man, whom I had permitted to leave me in a distinctly bad temper, instead of humouring and conciliating him, as I felt persuaded I might easily have done.
He would have persuaded himself, indeed, that he was only humouring the pride of the old Baronet for the purpose of turning it to his own advantage, but his feelings were of a mingled nature, and he felt the influence of those very prejudices which he pretended to flatter.
Had her master trusted her, it is probable that neither pity nor curiosity would have made her swerve from the straight line of her interest; for she had suffered too much in her intercourse with mankind, not to determine to look for support, rather to humouring their passions, than courting their approbation by the integrity of her conduct.
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