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Repton smiled paternally at him before putting to him the few questions which the occasion demanded. He held George's father's letter between two fingers of his right hand, moving it gently in the air as he addressed the lad: "I am very glad to see you, George," he said, "in this old office. I've seen you here before, Chrm! as you know, but not on such important business, Chrm!"
Now, the lawyer had often dreamed of fifties, hundreds, and even of thousands; but fortune had been so fickle with him, that he had never been in possession of bank-notes higher than five or ten dollars, except one of the glorious Cairo Bank twenty-dollar notes, which his father presented to him in Baltimore, when he advised him most paternally to try his luck in the West.
"Wal, boys," said Sam confidentially, "what'll ye have?" "Tell us 'Come down, come down!" we both shouted with one voice. This was, in our mind, an "A No. 1" among Sam's stories. "Ye mus'n't be frightened now," said Sam paternally. "Oh, no! we ar'n't frightened ever," said we both in one breath. "Not when ye go down the cellar arler cider?" said Sam with severe scrutiny.
He seemed to have completely recovered from his indisposition; and his features assumed an expression which indicated either careless indifference, or complete resignation. "Do you feel better?" asked M. Segmuller. "I feel very well." "I hope," continued the magistrate, paternally, "that in future you will know how to moderate your excitement. Yesterday you tried to destroy yourself.
We certainly had reason here again to observe the care of the Lord, and His protection through His good providence, which always watches paternally over His children, shown in our becoming aware of this rock before the evening, and just before the evening, for we had not well gone by it before it was dark.
She signified no. He shook the head of superior knowledge paternally. Her instinct of comedy set a dimple faintly working in her cheek. 'Not if they love, Nevil. 'At least, said he, 'a man does not like to see the woman he loves banished by society and browbeaten. 'Putting me aside, do you care for it, Nevil? 'Personally not a jot. 'I am convinced of that, said Renee.
Farina beheld himself in the service of the Emperor watching these signs, and expecting on the morrow to win glory and a name for Margarita. Glory and the name now won, old Gottlieb was just on the point of paternally blessing them, when a rude pat aroused him from the delicious moon-dream. 'Hero by day! house-guard by night! That tells a tale, said a cheerful voice.
Miss Savine's grandfather ruled in paternally feudal fashion over a few dozen superstitious habitants way back in old-world Quebec, as his folks had done since the first French colonization. That explains my daughter's views on social matters and her weakness for playing the somewhat autocratic Lady Bountiful. The Seigneurs were benevolent village despots with very quaint ways."
"Jeems" himself appeared in the doorway to wave a greeting and Benito went on oddly cheered by the encounter. In front of the Mansion House, adjoining Mission Dolores, stood Bob Ridley, talking with his partner. "You look warm, son," he remarked paternally to Windham, "let me mix you up a milk punch and you'll feel more like yourself. Where's your boss and whither are ye bound?"
'You had best get out at my door, and I can bring your friend. Not many months before, he had contrived to get himself blackmailed by the family of a Wallachian Hospodar, resident for political reasons in the gay city of Paris. It is no business of ours to follow them on this retreat, over which the police were so obliging as to preside paternally.
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