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"What business had I to expect that he was going to be our friend?" she said in her heart. "We are only tenants to him." "What a kind-spoken young man he is, to be sure, Mercy!" said Mrs. Carr. So all-sufficient is bare kindliness of tone and speech to the unsensitive nature. "Yes, mother, he was very kind," said Mercy; "but I don't think we shall ever know him very well."
I'm sure she's welcome to stay, if it was without pay, for we all love her, but, somehow, it don't seem the right place for her and, as to marrying, I don't think she'll ever marry any body around her, for, kind-spoken as she is, they wouldn't any of them dare to ask her, though they're all in love with her beautiful face."
I knowed Ebenezer Yerby! He war a frien'ly sorter cuss, good-nachured an' kind-spoken, but ye could put all the larnin' he hed in the corner o' yer eye."
'Thank you, Sarah; I wonder how long you have been up; you will be fit for nothing next. 'It don't hurt me, said Sarah, in disdain; and as Arthur shut his door, she murmured to herself, 'I'm not that sort to be knocked up with nothing; but he is an easy kind-spoken gentleman after all. I'll never forget what he has done for missus.
You seem so kind-spoken and pleasant-like as if you might be related to a preacher, and I thought mebbe you wouldn't mind just makin' a little short prayer 'fore you go. I dunno how long it'll be 'fore I'll get a chancet of one again." Courtland stood rooted to the floor in dismay. "Why, I " he began, growing red enough to be apparent even by the flickering inch of candle.
Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your interests were the same as his." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said Mrs. Toller serenely.
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