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"By the way," he continued, after crossing and re-crossing the room a few times, "what a riddle this Isabella Gonzales is; I wonder if she has got any heart at all. Here am I, who have gone scathless through the courts of beauty these many years, actually caught-surprised at last; for I do love the girl; and yet how archly she teazes me!
Grey, as if to ask her powerful mediation. She read his thoughts, and said: "Beating will do but little good, unless he can be first convinced of its necessity, which does not often happen." "There's no one here can take that trouble, ma'am," said the maid, peevishly; "I do assure you, Master George teazes us all, beyond endurance.
For alas! our boasted Humanity partakes of Vanity. As it is, he teazes me to death with chusing to suppose that I could get it into all the Reviews at a moment's notice. I!! who have been set up as a mark for them to throw at and would willingly consign them all to Hell flames and Megæra's snaky locks. This is the passage one red-hot sentence concerning eels:
"I don't know, mother," was her thoughtful reply; "sometimes I think I am a good girl, and that God loves me, and that I shall certainly go to heaven. But sometimes I am naughty. J teazes me, and makes me unthread my needle, and then I feel angry; and I know God does not love me then. I don't know, mother. I am afraid I should not go to heaven."
We are both great readers in different directions. Narrative teazes me. I have little concern in the progress of events. She must have a story well, ill, or indifferently told so there be life stirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. The fluctuations of fortune in fiction and almost in real life have ceased to interest, or operate but dully upon me.
Come, I will tell you a story, on one positive understanding, namely, that whoever teazes, or even TWITS, shall be turned out of the company." No. 5 sat up in his chair like a dart in an instant, and vowed that he would be the best of the good, till Aunt Judy had finished her story. "After which " concluded he, with a wink and another grin.
"So Mrs. is not happy: poor thing, I dare say, if the truth were known, he teazes her to death. Your very good husbands generally contrive to make you sensible of their merit somehow or other. "From a letter Mr. Canning has just got from Dublin, I find you have been breaking the heads of some of our English heroes.
And Solomon himself is no more than man; the truth-compelling ring extorts the confession that an itch of vanity still tickles and teazes him; the Queen of Sheba, seeker for wisdom and patroness of culture, after all likes wisdom best when its exponents are young men tall and proper, and prefers to the solution of the riddles of life by elderly monarchs one small kiss from a fool.
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