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"Your raised and infinitely obliged friend and servant, "Sept. 22, 1617. Thus he had tried his strength with Buckingham. He had found that this, "a little parent-like" manner of advising him, and the doctrine that a true friend "ought rather to go against his mind than his good," was not what Buckingham expected from him. And he never ventured on it again.
We answered, after we had looked awhile one upon another, admiring this gracious and parent-like usage; "That we could not tell what to say: for we wanted words to express our thanks; and his noble free offers left us nothing to ask.
He was waiting for us in the hall of the hotel when we arrived, and Kitty and I took him into our sitting-room and, parent-like, begged to be told "the worst." The doctor a dour and deliberate Scot declined to be positive, but "doubted" it might be perityphlitis. "Appendicitis is a more fashionable term," he added.
We answered, after we had looked a while upon one another, admiring this gracious and parent-like usage, that we could not tell what to say, for we wanted words to express our thanks; and his noble free offers left us nothing to ask.
"Bob," said I, in a voice and manner that could not be mistaken, "if you ever do that again I'll whip you within an inch of your life." "I won't, pop," he replied, in such meek tones that, parent-like, my heart reproached me at once. "Now," I added more gently, "every boy ought to learn to swim, and until he is able to do so, he should keep out of deep water.
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