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"Nay," spake the young knight hastily, his trouble growing, "I do dread the water!" "Well, there be shallows 'neath the alders yonder." "Aye, but the shallows will be muddy, and I " "Muddy?" cried Beltane, pausing with his hauberk half on, half off, to stare at Sir Fidelis in amaze, "muddy, forsooth! Art a dainty youth in faith, and over-nice, methinks.
Being but two men, and neither of us over-nice in the formalities, I had set a cheese, a loaf, and a bottle betwixt us on the bare table of my office room, for each to serve himself as he would; but I now proposed that, having a lady in our company, we should pay more regard to the decencies by going upstairs to my parlour, and there laying a tablecloth and napkins for our repast.
Hawthorne to be the happiest man alive? He isn't, though! Do save all the anecdotes you possibly can, piquant or not; starved people are not over-nice. LYNN, Jan. 5 . ... I very rarely see the B s; they go to a different church, and you know with that class of people "not to be with us is to be against us." Indeed, I know very little of Lynn people. If I can get at Mr.
"Not a hired girl surely not a hired girl!" and Ethelyn opened her brown eyes wide with surprise and indignation, wondering aloud what Aunt Sophia or Aunt Barbara would say if they knew she had eaten with and been introduced to a hired girl. Richard did not say, "Aunt Sophia or Aunt Barbara be hanged, or be anything," but he thought it, just as he thought Ethelyn's ideas particular and over-nice.
I've a pretty taste, too, in compiling almanacks, and when nothing else served I have played the public scrivener at the street corner; nay, sir, necessity has even driven me to hold the candle in one or two transactions I would not more actively have mixed in; and it was to efface the remembrance of one of these for my conscience is still over-nice for my condition that I set out on this laborious pilgrimage."
She, artfully, made lighter of her denial of the girl for a bedfellow, than she thought of it, I could see that; for it was plain, she supposed there was room for me to think she had been either over-nice, or over- cautious. I offered to resent Mrs. Sinclair's freedom. No; there was no great matter in it. It was best to let it pass.
But he experienced no such feeling. Praise of any kind was pleasant to his ears; you could not give him too much, nor was he over-nice as to the quality. He lived in the eyes of his fellow-citizens, and in all his walk and conversation, he looked to their good opinion. Such was Mr. Birtwell, at whose house a grand entertainment was to be given.
"There has been nothing done which cannot be explained with perfect truth. There has been no impropriety." "I do not know." "The money was paid simply from an over-nice sense of honour." "It cannot be explained.
It promised some excitement, a certain novelty, difficulties in a path that I had alas! ever found all too smooth for Chatellerault had made your reputed coldness the chief bolster of his opinion that I should not win. "Again, I was not given to over-nice scruples. I make no secret of my infirmities, but do not blame me too much.
It seems to me, Joseph, that we should live as God made us, for better or worse. But, Father, once you admit circumcision A man should not be over-nice, Joseph, and though it be far from my thought to wish to see thee a fornicator or adulterer it would rejoice me exceedingly to see grandchildren about me.
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