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"'Well, then, said she 'but pray observe I am no quack. I do not undertake to restore you instantaneously. Though my medicine will work surely, it will work slowly. You know, added she, smiling, 'the success of all alteratives depends on the punctuality with which they are taken, and the constancy with which they are followed up.
With a rest for his muzzle he laid it truly for the spot where the Frenchman would reappear; with extreme punctuality he shot him in the throat; and the gallant man who deprived the world of Nelson was thus despatched to a better one, three hours in front of his victim. To Britannia this was but feeble comfort, even if she heard of it.
She forgot all the things that were, in their eyes, the most important closing doors, punctuality for meals, neat stitches, careful putting away of books and clothes. Once, during a walk, she said to Aunt Elizabeth: "I am trying, Aunt Elizabeth. Do you think Aunt Anne sees any improvement?" And all Aunt Elizabeth said was: "It was a great shock to her, what you did. Maggie a great shock indeed!"
The carriage will drive out again, and wait for me outside; and ten minutes later I shall have joined you." The plan being adopted, as every thing depended upon punctuality, M. de Brevan regulated his watch by Henrietta's; and then, rising, he said, "We have already conversed longer than we ought to have done in prudence. I shall not speak to you again to-night. Till Thursday."
In the hall, Saunders was standing, weapon in hand, about to beat the gong. "Not yet," snapped Sir Thomas. "Wait!" Dinner had been ordered especially early that night because of the theatricals. The necessity for strict punctuality had been straitly enjoined upon Saunders. At some inconvenience, he had ensured strict punctuality. And now But we all have our cross to bear in this world.
Ellison, who, when he carried her her rent on the usual day, told him, with a benevolent smile, that he needed not to give himself the trouble of such exact punctuality. She added that, if it was at any time inconvenient to him, he might pay her when he pleased. 'To say the truth, says she, 'I never was so much pleased with any lodgers in my life; I am convinced, Mr.
Damon and Pythias were undoubtedly very good fellows in their way: the former for his extreme readiness to put in special bail for a friend: and the latter for a certain trump-like punctuality in turning up just in the very nick of time, scarcely less remarkable. Many points in their character have, however, grown obsolete.
"You are true to your appointment, Sir Frederic," said the actress, gayly, "and your punctuality shall be rewarded." She advanced to the farther easel, and, lifting the curtain, disclosed the features of the English lady. "This is for you!" she said, laughing. "My wife! by all that's wonderful!" exclaimed the baronet. "Accompanied by the original!" said Lady Stanley, as she unveiled and advanced.
A bleak desolate tract of country, open to piercing blasts and fierce wintry storms a dark, cold, gloomy heath, lonely by day, and scarcely to be thought of by honest folks at night a place which solitary wayfarers shun, and where desperate robbers congregate; this, or something like this, should be the prevalent notion of Snow Hill, in those remote and rustic parts, through which the Saracen's Head, like some grim apparition, rushes each day and night with mysterious and ghost-like punctuality; holding its swift and headlong course in all weathers, and seeming to bid defiance to the very elements themselves.
"I tell you it is a matter of the greatest importance to both of us. Can you meet me at Nelson's Cafe at four o'clock? I know the manager, and he'll let us have a private room." "I'd ask you round to me own little place," the major said, "but it's rather too far. Nelson's at four. Right you are! 'Punctuality is next to godliness, as ould Willoughby of the Buffs used to say.
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