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Updated: May 13, 2025
One does not feel that nature is dead because one is sure she will very soon be alive again." "That is a charming idea," said John, "one might make a good subject of it." "It is a little old, perhaps. I think I have heard it before have not you?" "All good ideas are old. The older the better," said John confidently. Mrs. Goddard could not resist the temptation of teazing him a little.
And Mother could help with the flowers. "Hello! ole feller! look out!" Stokes had stumbled over the fuel in the tender, in replenishing the boiler-fires. He recovered himself with an oath at the "slippery rubbish." Something had upset his temper, but he neither spoke nor looked like a man who had been drinking. The teazing, chilling drizzle continued.
No, I am not for teazing them any more; but shall we really go away, and buy nothing? Cit. Nay, that shall be just as your ladyship pleases you know I promised you I would not buy; that is to say, unless you discharge me of that obligation. Lady. I cannot, for shame, go out of this shop, and lay out nothing. Cit. Did your ladyship see any thing that pleased you? Lady.
But people in the nothing-to-do complaint are never quiet for long. Teazing is quite as constant a symptom of it, as growling, so No. 3 soon came lounging from the window to the table, and began: "I say, Judy, I wish you would put those tiresome books, and drawings, and rubbish away, and I think of something to do."
It is said that this teazing proves a successful method of collecting debts; inasmuch as the debtor, fearing that something may befall the creditor while in his house, and, therefore, suspicion fall on him, he is moved to use all possible endeavors to answer the demand. Women are sold in marriage and the highest bidder takes them. Their government is patriarchial and despotic.
"Upon my word you are very obliging!" cried Cecilia laughing; "and pray do you make interest regularly round with all your female acquaintance to be married upon this occasion, or am I the only one you think this distress will work upon?" "Now how excessive teazing!" cried Miss Larolles, "when you know so well what I mean, and when all the town knows as well as myself."
As for myself, who know no stories, and do not possess the talent of improving them by telling, if I did know any, I was often greatly embarrassed when she desired me to tell her one: 'I do not know one, indeed, said I, one day, when she was teazing me on the subject. 'Invent one, then, said she.
"Oh, I've give up asking for a crossing," he answered, dejectedly; "for he never heard, or if he heard, he never cared; so it were no use going on teazing either him or me." "But this money 'ud buy the broom," said Oliver; "and if you looked about you, you'd find the crossing. You never got such a bit of money before, did you?" "No, never," replied Tony.
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