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"I was too impatient to stay at home and listen to the parson's prosing," said Mr. Hazeldean, nervously. "I have shaken Dale off. Tell me what has passed. Oh, don't fear, I'm a man, and can bear the worst." Randal drew the squire's arm within his, and led him into the adjacent park. "My dear sir," said he, sorrowfully, "this is very confidential what I am about to say.
Heneage helped himself to a cigarette from Mason's case, and leaned back in his chair. "I never have the patience," he remarked, "to read about these things in the newspapers, but the Colonel's resume is always thrilling. Do go on. There won't be any pool till four o'clock." The Colonel smiled good-naturedly. "It's good of you fellows to listen to my prosing," he remarked.
An abrupt angle of the hill hiding them from her view, she turned round with a toss of the head, and flinging herself into a chair, exclaimed, "Now I shall be bored to death by this prosing family! I wish his boasted hunter had run away with Shafto before he thought of coming here!"
Perhaps the headache I contracted made me a severe critic on Cramond Brig, a little piece ascribed to Lockhart. Perhaps I am unjust, but I cannot think it his; there are so few good things in it, and so much prosing transferred from that mine of marrowless morality called the Miller of Mansfield. Yet it pleases. March 7.
The sailors will never believe it.” Whilst we were prosing with our elbows on our knees and our chins on our thumbs, looking very dolefully at each other, the ill-looking man who had locked us up made his appearance with a servant in a rich livery, who asked in French for the commandant. I stood up and said I was that person, on which he presented me with the following note:—
Though Arabella appeared to be paying no attention she did not lose a single word. "I am delighted," she said when we were alone, "to learn your taste for pious conversation. There's an old vicar on one of my estates who understands writing sermons better than any one I know; the country-people like him, for he suits his prosing to his hearers.
Can you so lightly renounce the splendour of this house, and your sister's company, to make a prosing old father happy?" "Indeed, sir, I am ready to go with you." "How she says that with what a countenance of woeful resignation! But I will not make the Manor Moat too severe a prison, dearest. You shall visit London, and your sister, when you will.
But when we have said all this, and, sick of prosing, would begin reading, the number of really readable memoirs is soon found to be but few. This is, indeed, unfortunate; for it launches us off on another prose-journey by provoking the question, What makes memoirs interesting? Is it necessary that they should be the record of a noble character? Certainly not.
He sat with one arm a-kimbo, the other elbow on a table, the hand holding on to the small pipe he was pettishly puffing; his legs crossed, drumming with one foot on the ground and casting every now and then the side glance of a basilisk at the prosing captain. At length the latter spoke of Kidd's having ascended the Hudson with some of his crew, to land his plunder in secrecy.
It was not exactly moral prosing, but rather inextinguishable fire just covered with a sprinkling of grey ash. With that dreadful capacity which some people possess, for the realisation of that which is not present, the parting with Mr.
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