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Us can do all your work, and you can stay in bed till your legs is not cracked any more," for they had heard her complaining of her knees and ankles being "wracked" with pain. On the whole I am afraid Duke and Pamela did not think Nurse's rheumatism altogether an "ill-wind," as they sat on their high chairs at breakfast at the nursery table.
Fortune and strength went hand in hand for the uext two days and the famished, worn-out company came to the coast. The wounded men were half-delirious once more for lack of proper attention, and the hardships of travel. But the ill-wind had spent its force. Bray's instructions were to place his charges on board ship at San Fernando de Union, and then await further orders in the little coast town.
A more emphatic signal from his wife arrested Mr. Gaines as he was in the act of leading Miss Brent away. "Eh? What? The Amhersts and Mrs. Ansell? You must excuse me then, I'm afraid but Westy shall take you. Westy, my boy, it's an ill-wind.... I want you to show this young lady our roses." And Mr.
Alas for you, my friend, you may yet have to turn to me for consolation. It is the ill-wind that blows nobody good. Am I not shocking, Mr. Percivail?" They had lost Madame Careni-Amori, who was behind them, shrieking a command through a port-hole to her maid. He looked at her in amazement. "I don't know what to think of you, Madame Obosky." Then he grinned. "Good Lord!
Indeed, there are, as Shakespeare's contented Duke says, "books in the running brooks, and good in every thing;" and so far from neglecting to turn the ill-wind to our account, we are disposed to venture a few seasonable truisms for the gratification of our readers, although a wag may say our subject is a dry one.
'An ill-wind, I am afraid, he answered. 'If you could have heard what has just passed how I have been besought and entreated to perform impossibilities what confusion and affliction I carry with me! 'I can guess it all. But why did you ever come here, my good sir? retorted Snitchey. 'Come! How should I know who kept the house?
Husband and son had fallen for a lost cause, confiscation had devoured the larger portion of her once fair inheritance; and now, with her two young daughters, she found herself beset by perils, harassed by stringent laws, and at the mercy of any ill-wind fate might blow her.
It was true that veteran members of the firm, looking in the glass, found white hairs where no white hairs had been and wrinkles on foreheads which, under the solid rule of old John Bannister, had been smooth; but it would have taken more than these straws to convince Bailey that the wind which was blowing was an ill-wind. He had developed in a day the sublime self-confidence of a young Napoleon.
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