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Though, if that be so, Lord love you, you have come to the wrong place." "Come, stable-master," said I, placably, "let me see a corner and a wisp of straw and I will ease the poor beasts. That will not harm the Bishop Peter, whom my master has gone to visit. He is a friend of his, a man learned in ecclesiastical affairs, who comes to hold disputations with the Bishop "
He was about to lose a nurse who had been to him for ten years, like his right hand; and he was utterly discomfited and confused in all his confirmed impressions of her character, by these startling revelations of her history. He would not have been a Briton if these untoward combinations of events had not made him surly. "Nay, nay!" said Father Antoine, placably. "Not so.
"I don't wish you to do anything," she returned placably. "Of course, you're perfectly right in not choosing to let an acquaintance begun in that way go any further. We shouldn't at home, and we sha'n't here. But I don't wish you to think that Lily has been imprudent, under the circumstances. She doesn't know that it was anything out of the way, but she happened to do the best that any one could.
And you will never come into it again." But Greatorex was already looking for his cap. "I'll navver coom into et again," he assented placably. There were no prayers at the Vicarage that night. It was nearly eleven o'clock. Greatorex was gone. Gwenda was upstairs helping Alice to undress. Mary sat alone in the dining-room, crying steadily. The Vicar and Rowcliffe were in the study.
Nor do I rightly comprehend how a probably justly excitable temper can stand for a plea in mitigation of an attempt at an outrageous breach of faith." "The sermon is over, sir." "Reverberations!" the Rev. Doctor waved his arm placably. "Take it for thunder heard remote." "Your hand, my love," Willoughby murmured. The hand was not put forth. Dr. Middleton remarked the fact.
Then suddenly in a flash of revealment he saw beyond the puerilities beyond the stubborn old man who, with all his narrow self-will and obstinacy was merely playing the game for others. "We can discuss these matters later, if you wish," he said placably. "I think you will find our ground well taken. Do you want to drive back as we came?
Upon my honour," he added in his natural manner, "I believe she does, though!" But the look became his companion. It touched and called up great vanity in his breast, and not till then could he placably confront the look. He tried a course of reading. Every morning he was down in the library, looking old in an arm-chair over his book; an intent abstracted figure. Mrs.
And if you'd got a spark of pride in you, you'd be ashamed to see the stables emptied, and everybody sneering about it. But it's my belief you'd sell yourself, if it was only for the pleasure of making somebody feel he'd got a bad bargain." "Aye, aye," said Dunstan, very placably, "you do me justice, I see. You know I'm a jewel for 'ticing people into bargains.
Such folly is beyond belief, and came not from my family, Mr. Meredith," she added, turning on her husband. "Well, well, wife; all the folly in the lass scarce comes from my side, for 't is to be remembered that ye were foolish enough to marry me," suggested the squire, placably, his anger at his daughter already melted by the sight of her distress.
"However that may turn out," he said, "we are evidently not in the mood for further conviviality, so let us postpone the supper to some other occasion. May I advise you not to wait until Susanna returns. There is no chance of a reconciliation to-night." "I dont want any reconciliation." "Of course not; I had forgotten," replied Conolly, placably.
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