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Even Grannie's well-kept table paled before the exquisite freshness of this one.
The next moment Cedric turned a corner sharply, and a low gray house and a well-kept tennis lawn were before them. "What a charming place!" exclaimed Malcolm. "It certainly merits its name it is indeed a Wood House." "Dinah is going to build a lodge next year," returned Cedric. "Lots of people refuse to believe there is a house in the wood, and lose themselves a dozen times before they find it.
I'd rather go to the Correction being too young to get to the place you're bound for, Tom Dorgan in it than in the patrol wagon. At any rate, it was all the chance I had. I slipped in, closing the door sharply behind me. The man on the box he was wide and well-kept, too was tired waiting, I suppose, for he continued to doze gently, his high coachman's collar up over his ears.
The neatly-dressed hair, the fresh clean skin, the well-kept teeth, the smooth polished nails, the spotless linen and the tasteful tie, the well-brushed clothing and the tidy boots, are all points of good form in personal appearance. The toilet once made should be considered finished. The hands should not stray to the hair to re-adjust hair-pins an absent-minded habit.
When Carmen went, when Zoe fled, when his cousin Auguste Charron took his flight, when defeats at law abashed him, the house and mills, and stores and offices, and goodly trees, and well-kept yards and barns and cattle-sheds all looked the same. Thus it was that he had been fortified. In one sense his miseries had seemed unreal, because all was the same in the outward scene.
After a drive of some length, through what kind of a country Ellen could hardly have told, they arrived at the place. It was beautifully situated; and through well-kept grounds they drove up to a large, rather old-fashioned, substantial- looking house. "The ladies were at home;" and that ascertained, Ellen took a kind leave of Mrs.
Stormer wasn't like that; she did things because they came into her head. But then, of course, she was Austrian, not English, and ever so much younger than old Stormer. And having reached the door of his tutor's house, he rang the bell.... He was humming and gently tapping the window-pane with his well-kept finger-nails.
For instance, our own Kentucky is not famous for well-kept farms, but I could not afford to have my fences down, my fields choked with weeds, and my stock depredating elsewhere." "But how do you manage your servants? They are the great bugbear nowadays." "By making them respect me and by paying good wages. They should not be expected to give their time and strength at starvation prices.
They walked silently side by side along the well-kept path, each immersed in his own thoughts and soothed by the knowledge that their friendship had reached a height where silence is permitted becomes even the purest form of expression.
Then there were the stone drains to be making, and the great talking about the run of the water, and the lie of the land, and the niceness with which we laid those drains! They were all joys to me. I dreamed green meadows and well-kept dykes and good beasts.
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