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Thus here was I, in this excellent company, with no choice but that of either fighting or running away. The robust, Herculean fellow grew more insolent, and I, turning round to the bystanders, asked them to lend me a snickasnee. "No, no," said the challenger, "draw your great knife from your side, and, long as it is, I will lay you a dozen ducats you get a gash in the cheek."
Then she hurried back to the house, to find the kettle merrily singing, and Aunt Melissa standing at the kitchen cupboard, looking critically up and down the shelves. "If you've got two sets o' them little gem-pans, you might lend me one," she remarked; and Amanda agreed, not knowing what she gave.
"Yes," said Uncle Richard, nodding. "I have seen you." "You ayve, sir, many times," said David, bending down; "and these here couldn't have been made by Master Tom, anyhow." "Lend me your knife, David," said Uncle Richard. "Knife, sir? Oh, I'll soon smooth them marks out." "Stop!" cried Uncle Richard, and only just in time, for David's finger-rake was within an inch.
I brought no pencil and paper, and I might forget something you say." She looked distressedly at his table. "Oh, don't mention a trifle like that," said Hugh urbanely; "permit me to lend you my fountain-pen" he handed it to her "and, this writing-block, is that sufficient paper?" "Oh, quite," she said gratefully.
He could not explain matters half so clearly to himself. He might have wanted to lend his study to his friend's cousin; he certainly did want to lend it to Lucia for her own sake; but besides these very proper and natural desires he had other motives which would not bear too strict examination. Lucia sitting in the same room with Mr.
"I can't give you the flask, for my sister Georgie gave it to me; but I will lend it to you for the day; and it's filled with an excellent mixture of curaçoa and brandy. You'll want some comfort? and I don't expect they'll let you smoke. What do you think of my crest?"
'Look at the drawings, Milly, and then return it, I whispered. At his request I allowed him to look at my unfinished sketch of the bridge, and while he was measuring distances and proportions with his eye, Milly whispered rather angrily to me. 'And why should I? 'Because he wants it back, and only meant to lend it to you, whispered I. 'Lend it to me and after you!
I hope to heaven you will not meet them this evening." "I shall go well armed," answered Aram, "and the horse you lend me is fleet and strong. And now farewell for the present; I shall probably not return to Grassdale this night, or if I do, it will be at so late an hour, that I shall seek my own domicile without disturbing you."
He had once been concealed there; he might well enough be concealed there a second time. That is what I said to my friend in the police. He proposed for me to lend a hand, as an amateur, and conduct him to the farm. I had nothing to do it was a nice party to the country I accepted." "Well! the viscount?" "Not to be found.
The Duc de Bourbon and the Prince de Conti assisted very zealously in the disgrace of the Duc du Maine. My son could not bring himself to resolve upon it until the treachery had been clearly demonstrated to him, and he saw that he should lend himself to his own dishonour if he did not prevent the blow.
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