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They had given him some tinned salmon in Gulgong, and I was afraid that that was upsetting him. I was always against tinned muck. 'Sick, Jim? I asked. 'No, dad, I ain't sick; I don't know what's the matter with me. 'Have some tea, sonny? 'Yes, dad. I gave him some tea, with some milk in it that I'd brought in a bottle from his aunt's for him.
At this moment, Quick, who had entered the room unobserved, gave a dry cough, and remarked: "Don't blame the Captain, Doctor, because he don't remember. There's nothing like shock from an explosion for upsetting the memory.
He corresponded with him, asked his advice about the books he should read, and discussed questions of Theology 'As to Gal. vi 15, we cannot differ.... With a man who reads and reasons I can have no controversy; and you do both. Archdeacon Hare was pleased, but soon a rumour reached him, which was, to say the least of it, upsetting.
"Singular or plural you?" she asked. "And why am I or are we doing what, and why shouldn't we?" "Help," said I, feeling that way. "Do you deny that you haven't been instrumental in upsetting the whole college with those fool elections?" "I am a modest young lady," said she, "so, of course, I deny it. Besides, this college isn't upset at all.
Without their aid, our National Debt could not have been borrowed; and if we had not been able to raise that money we should have been conquered by France and compelled to take back James II. And for many years afterwards the existence of that debt was a main reason why the industrial classes never would think of recalling the Pretender, or of upsetting the revolution settlement.
Aunt Maria allowed me to go out alone as a great concession, and it was mean to take advantage and run risks. So upsetting for her if I were killed in her house! So I'm in honour bound to confess, and promise not to do it again." "You might do something else just as bad! Probably she'll withdraw her permission and keep you under her thumb as she did those first weeks."
Among other things revealed was the fact that, on a certain occasion, he and two others had deposited a very considerable amount of treasure on a key that he described very minutely, and which he now bestowed on Daggett as some compensation for his present unmerited sufferings, his companions having both been drowned by the upsetting of their boat on the return from the key in question.
A miracle is always a miracle," retorted her father testily, "A something out of the common, and an upsetting of the ordinary laws of nature. Did your uncle tell you nothing of his visit to Rouen?" "Nothing," replied Angela, "Nothing but the story of Manuel." "Manuel? Who is he?" "The boy he has with him now.
Now there are two sorts of superstition, each of which is the very antithesis of the other. The victim of one believes all kinds of absurdities blindfold, oblivious of evidence or causality. The upsetting of a salt-cellar or the fall of a mirror is to him a harbinger of disaster, entirely irrespective of any possible connection between the cause and the effect.
I came in from Lake Forest to open the house for him and stay with him until the trains begin to run again." She seemed to expect sympathy for the disagreeable circumstances that persisted in upsetting the Hitchcock plans. But Sommers paid no attention to this social demand, and they walked on briskly. Finally Miss Hitchcock said coldly: "I can go home alone, now, if you have anything to do.
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