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Watkinson an ample opportunity of making her preparations, and sending round to invite her friends." "How considerate you are, dear Edward" said Caroline "always so thoughtful of every one's convenience. Your college friends must have idolized you." "No" said Edward "they called me a prig." Just then a remarkably handsome carriage drove up to the private door of the hotel.
Give Momus a sister, Clotilde is the lady! I know her. I would undertake to put a spell on her and keep her contented on a frontier not Russian, any barbarous frontier where there is a sun. She must have sun. One might wrap her in sables, but sun is best. She loves it best, though she looks remarkably well in sables. Never shall I forget... she is frileuse, and shivers into them!
Being unusually bright folk, remarkably intelligent, highly educated and, as may be said, brilliantly enlightened, they succeeded, almost beyond belief, in making a woefully bad bargain. I do not know how much they paid for the land but whatever the price it was too high. The property was picturesque to look at but its best herbage was sheep-sorrel.
"God's will be done," said Mr Willoughby when he heard the account. "I will not give up all hope of their return, though what has happened to them it is indeed hard to guess; still there are chances by which they may have effected their escape." Though he could not at all times hide his grief, yet he bore up remarkably well.
The first officer was embarrassed, not knowing how to act, and sent a gendarme with us to the bureau of Sarzana, the next town. The officer there was remarkably civil, but told us the law is such that books cannot enter except on conditions to which we could not in our conscience submit.
When they imposed penance, they were remarkably indulgent to persons of that rank; but they always made them purchase the remission of corporal austerity by acts of beneficence.
I hope you will bear in mind how remarkably well you have been getting along at St. John's, and what a success you've made." "Success!" echoed the rector. Either Mr. Langmaid read nothing in his face, or was determined to read nothing. "Assuredly," he answered, benignly. "You have managed to please everybody, Mr. Parr included, and some of us are not easy to please.
Formerly they were spoken of as "bullies;" but this, among the colliers, means "brothers," or is derived from "boolie," that is, "beloved." Though their manners are rough, their character is good, and they are remarkably friendly to each other. Being all "keel bullies" or "keel brothers," they support an extensive establishment in Newcastle called the "Keelmen's Hospital."
"But my friend Queerface does not seem quite to understand the joke of seeing his brothers and sisters stretched out there before him, and I should say feels remarkably uncomfortable in his own skin lest we should some day think it necessary to make use of his hide in the same way."
The words in the original are very specific, and the translation is remarkably accurate.
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