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She was as good-natured a woman as Mrs. Bundle herself, but with less brains. She lived in a chronic state of surprises and superlatives. "You are Nurse's sister, aren't you, please?" I asked, going up to her, and once more tendering my hand. "I wanted to see you very much." "Now just to think of that, Jemima! did you ever?" cried Mrs. Buckle.
While tendering this advice, she went on her way. Hsi Jen retraced her steps and returned into the room, fostering genuine feelings of gratitude for Pao-ch'ai. But on entering, she espied Pao-yue silently lost in deep thought, and looking as if he were asleep, and yet not quite asleep, so she withdrew into the outer quarters to comb her hair and wash. Pao-yue meanwhile lay motionless in bed.
A stamp, a card, a newspaper wrapper, a postal-order, a letter to be registered anything but an honest purchase across the counter or the blessed tendering of a prescription to make up. From vexation he passed to annoyance, to rage, to fury; he cursed the post-office, and committed to eternal perdition the man who had waxed eloquent upon its advantages.
He wanted wool, and his flocks soon overspread the plains of Australia, tendering him the finest fleeces, and his shepherds improved their leisure not in playing like Tityrus on the reed, but in opening for him mines of copper and gold.
It was, in fact, something altogether new to her to have a warm and devoted friend, espousing her cause, tendering her protection, and seeking in every way to promote her happiness. Her father had all his life neglected her. Her brother, of years and understanding totally inferior to hers, whom she had been compelled to make her husband, had become her mortal enemy.
Ethel, meanwhile, was standing beside her brother tendering to him some gold, as his last quarter. "How did you get it, Ethel? do you keep the purse?" "No, but papa took Cocksmoor in your stead, when " "Nonsense, Ethel," said Harry; "I don't want it. Have I not all my pay and allowance for the whole time I was dead? And as to robbing Cocksmoor "
Kossuth had felt it a duty of gratitude, on his return from New Orleans, to visit Jackson, the chief city of Mississippi, in order to express his thanks in person to Senator Foote, then Governor of the State, for having moved a resolution in the Senate to send a steamer to Constantinople for Kossuth, and afterwards, a resolution tendering to him a cordial national welcome at Washington.
Impertinent curiosity is offensive, not only because it shews an indifference to the feelings of the person questioned, but because it savours of gratuitous interference in his affairs. This quality it shares with another of the minor social vices, the tendering of unasked for advice, or, in brief, impertinent advice.
No 'fence, I s'pose no 'fence. 'Oh no, said Mr. Sponge. 'Jog, I dessay, 'll be very glad to see you. 'Oh, you'll be Mr. Sponge? observed the stranger, jumping to a conclusion. 'I am, replied our hero; adding, 'may I ask who I have the honour of addressing? 'My name's Romford Charley Romford; everybody knows me. Very glad to make your 'quaintance, tendering Sponge a great, rough, heavy hand.
Henry had been a prisoner now for more than a year, and was naturally near the time for his exchange if any one would look after the matter. After quite a delay on account of her being taken sick again, the time came for her to leave for Richmond, and after thanking Hibbard for his courtesy, and tendering manifold thanks to Mrs.
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