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She knocked at the door with violence; Mrs Belfield came to it herself; "Where," cried she, hastily entering as she spoke, "are the gentlemen?" "Lack-a-day! ma'am," answered Mrs Belfield, "they are both gone out." "Gone out? where to? which way?" "I am sure I can't tell, ma'am, no more than you can; but I am sadly afraid they'll have a quarrel before they've done."
"Lack-a-day!" said the widow. "Oh! mamma dear, suppose it should really happen as that kind M. Vautrin said!" said Victorine with a sigh as she looked at her hands. The two women were alone together. "Why, it wouldn't take much to bring it to pass," said the elderly lady; "just a fall from his horse, and your monster of a brother " "Oh! mamma." "Good Lord!
Lack-a-day! sir, he won't suffer his own maids to be in the garrison, but turns them into an out-house every night before the watch is set. Bless your honour's soul, he is, as it were, a very oddish kind of a gentleman.
This, which the Presbyterian divine uttered rather warmly, the General answered with the utmost mildness. "Lack-a-day, lack-a-day! a learned man, but intemperate; over-zeal hath eaten him up.
Alan Fairford; 'A young gentleman of rank and fortune has disappeared amongst their hands you know him. My father gave him a letter to you Mr. Darsie Latimer. 'Lack-a-day, yes! lack-a-day, yes! said the provost; 'Mr. Darsie Latimer he dined at my house I hope he is well? 'I hope so too, said Alan, rather indignantly; 'but I desire more certainty on that point.
In a few words, too, Swift draws a vivid picture of a rogue on his last journey through the London streets: His waistcoat, and stockings, and breeches were white; His cap had a new cherry ribbon to tie't. The maids to the doors and the balconies ran, And said, "Lack-a-day, he's a proper young man!" But as from the windows the ladies he spied, Like a beau in a box, he bow'd low on each side.
"Lack-a-day," he said, "the good man speaks truth, according to his knowledge and to his lights, ay, bitter truths, and hard to be digested, while we see as men see, and not with the eyes of angels. False messengers, said the reverend man? ay, truly, the world is full of such.
My name was next down after Sir William's for a box, and in it such beauty shall be exhibited that 't is likely we poor Thespians will get not so much as a look from the exquisites of the pit." "Lack-a-day!" grieved Janice, "mommy will never hear of my going to see a play. I've not so much as dared to tell her that I'm helping you."
Their hostess knew nothing of the young baronet being in the neighbourhood, and was by no means gratified by the intelligence. "Lack-a-day! Miss Harriet, you don't mean that the family is coming down here! I don't want none of them. 'Tis bad times for the farmer when any of that sort is nigh.
Lack-a-day! a great mercy a glorifying mercy a crowning mercy a vouchsafing an uplifting I profess the malignants are scattered from Dan to Beersheba smitten, hip and thigh, even until the going down of the sun!" "Hear you aught of Colonel Thornhaugh's wounds?" "He is dead," answered Wildrake, "that's one comfort the roundheaded rascal!
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