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They passed Farfrae's, and looked to the end of the street. The lamp flames waved, the Walk trees soughed, a few loungers stood about with their hands in their pockets. Everything was as usual. "Have you seen a motley crowd making a disturbance?" Grower said magisterially to one of these in a fustian jacket, who smoked a short pipe and wore straps round his knees.
Then Jurgen magisterially cleared his throat. "Lisa, if you indeed be Lisa, you must understand I am through with you. The plain truth is that you tire me. You talk and talk: no woman breathing equals you at mere volume and continuity of speech: but you say nothing that I have not heard seven hundred and eighty times if not oftener." "You are perfectly right, my dear," says Dame Lisa, piteously.
This ignorance of character is not confined to foreign nations: we are ignorant of that of our own countrymen in a class a little below or above ourselves. We shall hardly pretend to pronounce magisterially on the good or bad qualities of strangers; and, at the same time, we are ignorant of those of our friends, of our kindred, and of our own.
Anstey came to the rescue. "Why, Lady Martin, I had no idea you were home again. You have come to welcome Mrs. Rose, I suppose. My dear" to Toni "Lady Martin is your nearest neighbour really near, I mean; only a mile away." "Less by the fields." Lady Martin spoke magisterially. "And this fine weather tempted us to walk, although both the cars were standing idle in the garage."
Its charm did not suffice to lighten for him the burden of the wickedness. He had certain inklings of complaint in his own mind against his own wife, but he felt that his own hands should be perfectly clean before he could deal with those inklings magisterially and maritally. How would he look were she to turn upon him and ask him as to his own conduct with Adelaide Houghton?
"It's no good carrying on like that," said Mr. Jobling, magisterially, "and, what's more, I won't have it." "Walking into my house and making eyes at my 'usband," stormed his wife. "So long as I don't make eyes at her there's no harm done," retorted Mr. Jobling. "I can't help her taking a fancy to me, poor thing." "I'd poor thing her," said his wife. "She's to be pitied," said Mr.
I think our small boarder here is like to prove a refractory subject, if I undertake to use the sceptre my friend meant to bequeathe me, too magisterially. I won't deny that sometimes, on rare occasions, when I have been in company with gentlemen who preferred listening, I have been guilty of the same kind of usurpation which my friend openly justified.
'I hope, Sir, said Sam, addressing his master, 'I hope there's no harm in a young man takin' notice of a young 'ooman as is undeniably good-looking and well-conducted. 'Certainly not, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Not by no means, acquiesced Mr. Weller, affably but magisterially. 'So far from thinking there is anything wrong in conduct so natural, resumed Mr.
Thirty-five pounds a-year, and extra pay for teaching the smallest strummers at the piano." "Poor child! I wish she could stay at home with us, Susan," said Caleb, looking plaintively at his wife. "Mary would not be happy without doing her duty," said Mrs. Garth, magisterially, conscious of having done her own.
It claims to decide magisterially, whether as within its own province or not, that such and such statements are or are not prejudicial to the Depositum of faith, in their spirit or in their consequences, and to allow them, or condemn and forbid them, accordingly.
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