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The farmer scanned her with more than a merely suspicious eye, so that the lookers-on grew anxious, and the sub-officer with him, and who thought of his own plate of beef, hastened to say: "Well, you don't see anything here anywheres like your beastie, do you, old father?" "I dunno. Thar suttinly is one cow the pictur' of mine but my Lilywhite was a stump had a stub-tail, you know!"
I'm going to eat beside you, sleep beside you, march beside you: and when things grow hot, and your lilywhite soul begins to shiver, I'll be close to you still but behind you, my daisy! So I promised him, and, being a coward, he chose it. I tell you I kept my word too: it's lucky for you, boy, that I'm a connoisseur in my grudges. But Whitmore he'd betrayed me, you see.
Lilywhite, the mother of six children and possessed of many virtues, he presently became a favourite, she saw in him 'a great deal of quiet moral force'. One or two families of good standing made him welcome at their houses; society is very kind to those who seek its benefits with recognised credentials.
I doubt whether he has really made up his mind on any subject whatever. Well, it's not easy to explain what I feel, but I don't think he will take Orders. Calling at the vicarage one afternoon in September, Godwin found Mrs Lilywhite alone. She startled him by saying at once: 'An old acquaintance of yours was with us yesterday, Mr. Peak. 'Who could that be, I wonder?
'She's got Lilywhite, what's a sort of a reader, readin' that same Bible to her now. 'There can be no great harm in just looking in, he said, turning to me. 'I shall be happy to follow you anywhere, I returned. 'She's awful ill, sir; cholerer or summat, said Sarah, as she led the way up the creaking stair. We half entered the room softly.
Lilywhite troubled himself little about evolution; he spoke of trees and plants, of birds and animals, in a loving spirit, like the old simple naturalists. Geology did not come within his sphere. 'I'm very sorry, he said, 'that I could never care much for it.
Sidwell's influence with her parents would perhaps withhold them from making his disgrace known, and in a few years he might be glad that he had behaved with all possible prudence. In the end, he decided to write to Mr. Lilywhite, saying that he was obliged to go away at a moment's notice, and that he feared it would be necessary altogether to change the scheme of life which he had had in view.
And what could be gained by any middle way between hearty goodwill and complete repudiation? Time time alone must work out the problem. 'Yes, I think you have no choice, she answered. 'Then I must make inquiries see if he leaves the town. 'Mr. Lilywhite will know, probably. 'I will write before long. So the dialogue ended, and neither sought to renew it.
But before the carriage moved away, and while the Native was in the act of sepulture, Miss Tox appearing at her window, waved a lilywhite handkerchief. Mr Dombey received this parting salutation very coldly very coldly even for him and honouring her with the slightest possible inclination of his head, leaned back in the carriage with a very discontented look.
Then out there came the jew's daughter And she all dressed in green. "Come back, come back, you pretty little boy, And play your ball again." "I can't come back and I won't come back Without my schoolfellows all. For if my master he did hear He'd make it a sorry ball." She took him by the lilywhite hand And led him along the hall Until she led him to a room Where none could hear him call.
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