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But Paul was still resolved that he would be the messenger to carry to the Priory that day the two fat capons the worthy mistress had in readiness for the prior's table. They had been bespoken some time, and could be no longer delayed. Paul was weary of an idle life, and eager to see something of the country in which he found himself.
It is only our rights that are concerned, and they are not worth dying for. That would be mere pride, and denial of God who is fighting for us. At least so it seems at the moment to me!" "Some of us would fain fight and have done with it, sir!" The chief could not help smiling with pleasure at the little man's warlike readiness: he knew it was no empty boast; what there was of him was good stuff.
On looking closer at you, in spite of my grief, I could not help exclaiming, 'So that's the handsome b , is it!" The grenadiers, being called as witnesses, declared that such was in fact her remark. Then the King smiled, and said to the young Flemish lady: "Who are you? What is your name?" With readiness and dignity she replied, "Sire, you see before you the Comtesse de Sainte-Aldegonde."
The loyalty of the fugitive lords, and their readiness to prove their innocence before their sovereign, were stoutly asserted.
An inner apartment loomed black and uninviting through an open doorway. Helen discovered later that some scanty accommodation was provided there for those who meant to sleep in the hut in readiness for an early ascent, while it supplied a separate room in the event of women taking part in an expedition. Bower offered her a quantity of brandy and water.
The whole of this characteristic contrivance was evidently intended by Sheridan to raise that sort of surprise at the readiness of his resources, which it was the favorite triumph of his vanity to create. I have it on the authority of Mr.
The following is dated only January 2nd, but the post-mark shows it to have been written from Bath on that day, 1838. "MY DEAR SIR, Yesterday there were lying across my fender three or four sheets of paper, quite in readiness to dry themselves, and receive my commands.
"If a God of love, as you say your God is, made the world, and could not for want of room, I suppose let his creatures live on in it, he would surely have thought of some better way out of it than such a ghastly one!" Perhaps the most surprising thing about Barbara was her readiness. Very seldom had one to wait for her answer.
This person had the family attribute of readiness of resource and perfect confidence. The enthusiasm which had been too dangerously excited in the breast of his aged parent had been communicated to him.
He had announced his intended arrival by telegraph, twenty-four hours in advance; therefore the house was expected to be in perfect readiness to receive him, and the absence of Albert at the railway station would have been resented as a flagrant omission of duty. The viscount had been but five minutes in the waiting-room, when the bell announced the arrival of the train.
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