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As Vesta saw the curious scene of such patriarchal democracy in the old kitchen, she wondered if that voluptuous endowment of her father was not the happy provision to make marriage unions tolerable, and social revulsions philosophical.
Elsmere, he broke out at last with contemptuous emphasis, 'I imagine it would have been better infinitely better to have spared both yourself and me the disagreeables of this interview. However, I am not sorry we should understand each other. I have lived a life which is at least double the length of yours in very tolerable peace and comfort.
I spent my fifth night in the train pretty comfortably, having contrived to makeup a tolerable berth. Shortly after I awoke, we crossed the Mississippi on a splendid bridge at Fulton. What a noble river it is! Here, where it must be fifteen hundred miles from its mouth, it seemed to me not less than a mile across.
That indeed which was required in order to my marrying thy daughters, hard as it was, I own to have been tolerable; but as to those that were put upon me after those marriages, they were worse, and such indeed as an enemy would have avoided."
Margaret bade him good morning, and then asked concerning the health of the "folks." He sat down and twisted his hat round and round. "The folks air jest tolerable, ma'm. How's all with you?" "Tolerable," Margaret answered. "Yo' brother Bill a gittin' better?" Jasper inquired. Round and round Laz twisted his hat. "Pearter than he war yistidy, but not as peart as he war the day befo'."
He is obviously not a hard character, my good young friends, for you to deceive; for he wants suspicion, and all his good qualities lay him open to you. But beware his anger when he finds you out! He is a terrible Othello when his nature is once stung. Mem. A good sort of character to seduce into illegal practices; makes a tolerable traitor or a capital smuggler.
As to the captain, he received the attention which his gallant conduct entitled him to, and on the eve of his departure he was presented with a trunk, of tolerable dimensions, well filled with linen and clothes. A merry night was passed to celebrate my escape.
The garden is distinctly tolerable; there are orange trees now in bloom so sweet of scent. The street into which they had now emerged was no less martial in appearance than the barrack yard, and while he spoke the General never ceased to dispense his kindly little nod on one side or the other in response to military salutations.
There are some men whose lives seem to us as undesirable as the lives of toads or serpents; yet these men breathe in tolerable content and satisfaction.
"No, you ain't! You're delighted! You think it's romantic to get caught like this. Wish I had the enthusiasm of youth." He fanned himself with a newspaper. "Lucky I went over to the express office yesterday and loaded up on gold. I reckon when the blow falls it'll be tolerable hard to cash checks in this man's town." "That was a good idea." "Ready for breakfast?" he inquired.
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