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"You're very comfortable here, Lynch," said the doctor, stretching his long legs before the fire, and putting his dirty boots upon the fender. "Yes, indeed," said Barry, not knowing what the other was saying. "All you want's a wife, and you'd have as warm a house as there is in Galway. You'll be marrying soon, I suppose?" "Well, I wouldn't wonder if I did.
"Indifferent, sir," said Richie Moniplies, looking down on his garments "very indifferent; but it is the wonted livery of poor burghers' sons in our country one of Luckie Want's bestowing upon us rest us patient! The king's leaving Scotland has taken all custom frae Edinburgh; and there is hay made at the Cross, and a dainty crop of fouats in the Grass-market.
John Want's dismal face brightened in spite of himself. Frank had recalled to the cook's memory one of the noteworthy passages in the cook's life. "That's it, sir!" he said. "If ever a man cured sea-sickness in a new way yet, I am that man I got over it, Mr. Frank, by dint of hard eating. I was a passenger on board a packet-boat, sir, when first I saw blue water.
And it was a tragical and terrible coincidence that the bomb-thrower, driven mad by want, should be guillotined there, in the very centre of want's dominion. But daylight had come at last, for it was nearly half-past four. The distant noisy crowd could feel that the expected moment was drawing nigh. A shudder suddenly sped through the atmosphere.
Do let it go! I'm always miserable when there's a cat in the room. 'Nonsense, that's your fancy! What you want's a taste of whisky you'll be as chirpy as a cricket. 'I don't want anything more to drink! I've had too much already! I paid no heed to what he said. I poured two stiff doses into a couple of tumblers.
Roger started up in dismay, but, beholding the apparition, laughed also. "Please, grannie," said the urchin, "mother's took bad, and want's ye." "Run and tell your mother I shall be with her directly," answered Marion; and the child departed. "You told me I might come again," pleaded Roger. "Better not. I didn't know what it would mean to you when I said it."
I reckon th' new fangled contraption that th' perfesser is goin' t' navigate th' air an' sail th' angry seas in, am about done. He want's t' try th' engine." "Come on then," said Jack. "We probably would not catch any fish, anyhow, Mark." Accompanied by Washington, the youths, each of whom was about eighteen years old, started toward the big shed.
BOSWELL. The following are Mr. Courtenay's lines: 'Soft-eyed compassion with a look benign, His fervent vows he offered at thy shrine; To guilt, to woe, the sacred debt was paid, And helpless females blessed his pious aid; Snatched from disease, and want's abandoned crew, Despair and anguish from their victims flew; Hope's soothing balm into their bosoms stole, And tears of penitence restored the soul.
The chairs too high the tables too low there's six inches between the floor and the door. What I want's a hammer, an old quilt, and have you such a thing as a kitchen table? Anyhow, between us" she now flung open the door of her husband's sitting room, and revealed Ridley pacing up and down, his forehead all wrinkled, and the collar of his coat turned up.
"Want's us to stand by him, I reckon," the mate replied. "Can we do it without danger in this seaway, hey?" demanded Thompson. "Answer me that. How the devil can we do anything for a fellow in this seaway, when we might be rammed by him and sink ourselves?" "We'll stand by that ship as long as she's above water," answered Trunnell, quietly. Then came a sudden change upon the captain.
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