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He should not make her a laughing-stock by talking as if she were "sweet and twenty," or draw notice to the fact that she has passed her first youth. She will enjoy being taken care of, being planned for, and being eased of her burdens; but while showing her all courtesy let him give her credit for some self-reliance, for she has managed so far to get through life without him.
A kind of gloomy preoccupation hardened his close-shaven face a face that showed itself bronzed and fleshy beneath the white hair grandly combed and curled upon his forehead. Presently he began: "I hate to see two men fight, because if they're spirited it's bound to be serious. But still I can't bear to see a good man and a hard-working man be made a laughing-stock for everybody. Get me?"
"Do not make yourself a laughing-stock for all the wittiest men in Paris; come to my house, we will talk it over." Montes was crushed. "Proofs," he stammered, "consider " "Only too many," replied Carabine; "and if the mere suspicion hits you so hard, I fear for your reason." "Is this creature obstinate, I ask you? He is worse than the late lamented King of Holland!
Whose main aim is, to live honestly, to get a good name, to shew good examples to their Children and Servants, to leave somthing to their Widows, and never to be a laughing-stock or derision to their enemies. And this manner of diligence makes no labour irksom, no morning too early, nor no evening too late for them.
"There are two reasons against accepting your proposal, good sir," answered the captain; "the first is that I have other occupation for my ship, and the second is that I have no wish to become the laughing-stock of people at home, should I arrive with a shipload of dust not worth carting on shore."
Sort of a gentleman farmer had the notion he knew better than others, and tried it on year after year till he made a laughing-stock of himself. Anyhow, that's the tale. Mr. Bates has shown me the basis of the pits built over now by the buildings you were looking at. Ah, here is the old fellow." Mr. Bates driving toward them in his gig pulled up, and invited Dale to do so also.
"That sounds exactly as though my dead father were speaking." "I'll not be made a laughing-stock by you." "You make yourself one as your father did before you. A Kingsnorth! What has your name meant?
Moreover, the great island State was passing through ministerial and financial difficulties which robbed her of all the fruits of her naval triumphs and made her diplomacy at Amiens the laughing-stock of the world. When monarchical ideas were thus discredited, it was idle to expect peace.
He is excessively heavy and timid, so timid that when he arrives at the college and is asked his name, he responds: "Charbovari" He is so dull that he works continually without advancing. He is never the first, nor is he the last in his class; he is the type, if not of the cipher at least of the laughing-stock of the college.
Less than a quarter of a mile from the station she reined in her horse. Why should she bother about it? she asked herself angrily. Was she going to make herself the laughing-stock of the place? Was she going to show to all Birralong the truth of her feelings for Tony?
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