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'I might say the same, he returned; 'but I will not. Grant me one favour. Come and hear my last sermon on the day before I go. Lizzy, who was a church-goer on Sunday mornings, frequently attended Stockdale's chapel in the evening with the rest of the double-minded; and she promised.
So that Stockdale's innocent ignorance, and his look of alarm when he guessed the sinister mystery, seemed to strike Lizzy first as ludicrous, and then as very awkward for the good impression that she wished to produce upon him. 'Smuggling is carried on here by some of the people, she said in a gentle, apologetic voice. 'It has been their practice for generations, and they think it no harm.
Johnson in the extempore and masterly defence of any cause which, at the given moment, he chose to defend. Stockdale's Memoirs, i. 261. Burney 'spoke with great warmth of affection of Dr. Johnson, and said he was the kindest creature in the world when he thought he was loved and respected by others. He would play the fool among friends, but he required deference.
'Now take them down to your mis'ess, and say they are some clothes I have found here and know nothing about. As the door was left open he heard the conversation downstairs. 'How stupid! said Mrs. Newberry, in a tone of confusion. 'Why, Marther Sarer, I did not tell you to take 'em to Mr. Stockdale's room? 'I thought they must be his as they was so muddy, said Martha humbly.
"Belle's wean! Man, Belle never had a wean. That bairn is Stockdale's; and I'm hearing," said he, "that Scaurdale's niece, the mother of it, sent word to her uncle to take away the bairn, for her man turned out an ill-doer, and it's like she would be feart.
You will be looked upon quite as a little barbarian. We will stop the carriage at Stockdale's, and get them for you. At this moment Lady Annabel rejoined them; and, having made all their arrangements, they re-entered the carriage. 'Stop at Stockdale's, said her ladyship to the servant; 'I must get Cadurcis' last poem for Venetia. She will be quite back in her learning, Annabel.
A letter was produced, when he had perhaps himself forgotten it, in which he tells Concanen, "Dryden, I observe, borrows for want of leisure, and Pope for want of genius; Milton out of pride, and Addison out of modesty." 'Goldsmith asserted that Warburton was a weak writer. "Warburton," said Johnson, "may be absurd, but he will never be weak; he flounders well." Stockdale's Memoirs, ii. 64.
'How did these things come in my room? he said, flinging the objectionable articles to the floor. Martha said that Mrs. Newberry had given them to her to brush, and that she had brought them up there thinking they must be Mr. Stockdale's, as there was no other gentleman a-lodging there. 'Of course you did, said Stockdale.
Stockdale was disappointed, which perhaps it was intended that he should be. He had finished supper, and was not in the least anticipating Mrs. Newberry again that night, when she tapped and entered as before. Stockdale's gratified look told that she had lost nothing by not appearing when expected.
The iron bar sustaining the rope, on which Stockdale's hand rested, began to swerve a little, and the carriers one by one appeared climbing up the sloping cliff; dripping audibly as they came, and sustaining themselves by the guide-rope.
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