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Then he turned to the side of the mantelpiece and took the church keys from the nail. For everybody knows where everybody else keeps his keys in Farlingford. He forgot to shut the door behind him, and River Andrew, pessimistically getting into his sea-boots, swore at his retreating back.
"I dare say he's like all the rest when his aim is attained the prize loses its value," reflected Miss Sally pessimistically. "Poor Joyce poor child! But there there isn't a single inharmonious thing in his house that is one comfort. I'm so thankful I didn't let Willard buy those brocade chairs he wanted. They would have given Joyce the nightmare."
Before Orientals can attain anything approaching to the British ideal of self-government, they will have to undergo very numerous transmigrations of political thought." And Lord Cromer concludes pessimistically: "It will probably never be possible to make a Western silk purse out of an Eastern sow's ear."
You may talk English to the man if you like; I shall address him in nothing but Italian. As they rose from the table she suggested pessimistically, 'Let's go and look at the donkeys I suppose they'll be horrid, scraggly, knock-kneed little beasts.
'I shall have the letter in a week from now, the Englishman had written. 'Which will be too late, commented Concha pessimistically. The senora was out, they told him, but the senorita had remained at home. 'It is the senorita I desire to see. And Julia, at the window above, heard the remark with a sinking heart. The air seemed to be weighted with the suggestion of calamity.
Carried out hopelessly and pessimistically by a tired and exasperated mother, they are well calculated to strengthen the hold which the obsession has on the child, so that often we meet with a mother who rightly enough maintains that the more she wakes the child, the oftener the bed is wet, till she wonders where it all comes from.
"It's them buses," he complained, "they won't stop when I halt 'em." "But why do you want to stop them? They can't poison the horse-troughs." "It's me duty," he said. "There's one comin'." A bus, coming the opposite way, bore down upon us with an unwieldy rush and roar the last bus, in a hurry to get to bed. "You'll see," he said pessimistically. "'Alt! 'Alt, there!"
There's a side of bacon in that kyack over there. Get it out and slice some off, and we'll have supper before you know it. We will," he added pessimistically, "if this dang brush will burn." Bud found the bacon and cut according to his appetite. His host got out a blackened coffeepot and half filled it with water from a dented bucket, and balanced it on one side of the struggling fire.
He rubbed a sulphur match on the leg of his trouser, and lighted a cigarette as he rode along. 'On our side no accidents, continued Vara, with a careless grandeur, 'unless the reverendo received a kick in the face. 'The reverendo received a stone in the small of the back, growled Concha pessimistically, 'where there was already a corner of lumbago.
"Yes, but she might change her mind," said Grace pessimistically. "Fifteen thousand dollars is a lot of money, you know. She might decide to sell the ranch, after all." "Well," said Betty, with an air of importance that the girls were quick to notice, "there is another reason why mother will probably hold on to the property, for a little while at least." "Yes?" they queried eagerly.
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