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As the girl's voice took on a tone of scornful sarcasm; as her cheeks flushed and her eyes flashed while memory recalled the many instances of unfeeling cruelty and neglect, that had brought tears to her childish eyes and pain to her lonely heart the eyes of Lucian Davlin became bright with admiration, and something more; something that might have caused her honest eyes to wonder and question, if she had but intercepted the glance.
I am apprehensive, however, there may be some danger that this method will occasion a general neglect of duty, as it will afford them a mutual opportunity of throwing the blame upon each other. THERE is no occasion, my dearest Secundus, to draw off any soldiers in order to guard the prisons.
He did not neglect his studies, but read at night, whenever the day's work had not made both brain and body too weary for the task. In this way his life went along for over a year when one morning a note from Mr. Featherton summoned him to that gentleman's office. It is true that Halliday read the note with some trepidation. His bitter experience had not yet taught him how not to dream.
Neglect them and you sink into the quagmire from which the soul of the race has been for generations struggling to save you." Fall on this rock, stumble into unhappiness and discontent, as so many do in marriage, and you will be broken.
Sometimes, in measuring the outworks of the castle, he ran against Havill strolling about with no apparent object, who bestowed on him an envious nod, and passed by. 'I hope you will not make your sketches, she said, looking in upon him one day, 'and then go away to your studio in London and think of your other buildings and forget mine. I am in haste to begin, and wish you not to neglect me.
I was detained at my office by other matters, which our family troubles had caused me to neglect, until supper-time, and then I returned to my own home, expecting to have a little chat over the affair with Maria before acquainting the rest of the family with my impressions of Goward and his responsibility for our woe.
Vanity Fair is not a place through which all pilgrims must pass as quickly as possible, shutting their eyes and stopping their ears so that they should neither see nor hear the wicked things that are done and said there. Vanity Fair is the world in which we all have to live and do our work well, or neglect it.
"I should be strangely neglectful of the duties of my station, not to speak of the discourtesy of such a neglect to yourself, were I to do otherwise; always supposing you burdened with such encumbrances. I put it to yourself, whether such would not be the effect of my omission." "It most certainly would, most frank and candid of all the outlaws.
"I did not," said the Philosopher. "Did you leave out a pan of milk on last Tuesday?" "I did then." "Do you take off your hat when you meet a dust twirl?" "I wouldn't neglect that," said Meehawl. "Did you cut down a thorn bush recently?" "I'd sooner cut my eye out," said Meehawl, "and go about as wall-eyed as Lorcan O'Nualain's ass: I would that. Did you ever see his ass, sir? It "
But never forget the maxim that I now lay down for your future guidance; recollect that 'a man can never dirt his hands about his own business; and always bear in mind these three old Italian proverbs first, 'Never do that by proxy, which you can do yourself. Second, 'Never defer till to-morrow that which can be done well to-day. Third, 'Never neglect small matters and expences."
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