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When her Fanny did at last marry, Natalya as everybody called the old clo'-woman was not over-pleased at the bargain. Natalya had imagined beforehand that for a matronly daughter of twenty-three, almost past the marrying age, any wedding would be a profitable transaction. But when a husband actually presented himself, all the old dealer's critical maternity was set a-bristle.
Here we found the waggon and oxen quite safe and were welcomed rapturously by my Zulu driver and the voorlooper, who had made up their minds that we were dead and were thinking of trekking homewards. Here also Thomaso greeted us, though I think that, like the Zulus, he was astonished at our safe return and indeed not over-pleased to see us.
Marie gave a quick little sigh one of those sighs which the worldly-wise recognise at once. "You don't seem over-pleased," said Joseph. "I was very happy there," she answered. Joseph leant back in his chair, fingering reflectively his beer-glass. "I'm afraid, mistress," he said half-shyly, "that your life can't have been a very happy one.
"I like McGinnis, too." "I reckon he wasn't over-pleased with your bein' late?" queried Rifle-Eye. "He wasn't," admitted the boy candidly, "but I don't blame him for that. I liked him just the same. But I don't think it's safe to monkey with him. Now, McGinnis is easygoing and good-natured." "So is a mountain river runnin' down a smooth bed.
I didn't think you such a smart sea lawyer," said the old Admiral, rather grimly, not over-pleased, I think, at Dad's taking up the burthen of his grievances. "Know nothing, you say? Of course they know nothing, the government, hang it! was a cabinet of nincompoops, I tell you Aberdeen, Graham and the whole lot of 'em!
"When I'm a man I shall ride in these carriages," he said; whereat the other laughed and returned good-humouredly: "Eh, that's not so much to boast of, cavaliere; I shall ride in a carriage one of these days myself." Odo stared, not over-pleased, and the boy added: "When I'm carried to the churchyard, I mean," with a chuckle of relish at the joke.
"This is a misunderstanding a dreadful misunderstanding," she cried out in her pretty broken English. "Oh, how does it happen that you are here?" "Through no choice of my own, madam, I assure you!" retorted Tony, not over-pleased by his reception. "But why how how did you make this unfortunate mistake?" "Why, madam, if you'll excuse my candour, I think the mistake was yours " "Mine?"
Carvel, who liked not to be balked in any matter, and was not over-pleased at this reference to my father. And he gave Philip forthwith another pistole, telling his father to add the first to his saving if he would. "And Richard must have his chance," says my Aunt Caroline, sweetly, as she rises to leave the room. "Ay, here is a crown for you, Richard," says my uncle, smiling.
To force advice upon you would be as impertinent as useless." "It's all the same, I'm afraid, sir. My mind has been made up for a long time. What right have I to bring other people into trouble? But I take it kind of you, sir, though I mayn't look over-pleased. Agnes wants to hear your way of it. I'm agreeable." This was not very encouraging. Still I thought it sufficient ground for proceeding.
Captain Bradley was not over-pleased with his life at the fort; as one of the minor ills he mentions in one of his letters to Ebenezer Banks: "Please deliver the enclosed letter to my wife. The Last Camp. On November 3d the doomed army, now reduced to a total of about fourteen hundred men, camped on the eastern fork of the Wabash, high up, where it was but twenty yards wide.
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